The closest we come to getting Neanderthal injuries? Water-tubing.
Science News looks at broken bones – specifically, how modern bone breaks seem so different from the injuries we see in Neanderthal skeletons. Why should […]
archaeology
Humans reached America 100,000 years earlier than thought.
Nature reveals the remains of a 130,000-year-old barbecue… that opens a controversial – and way, way older – chapter of human history in the Americas: […]
Bronze-Age Dane was an ancient immigrant.
Denmark’s The Local looks at the mummified remains of a woman who was anything but local, new research has found. One of the iconic ancestors […]
Medieval English mutilated their dead – to keep them from rising.
The Guardian unearths the truth about medieval Yorkshire’s drastic measures to prevent the dead from walking: The research published by Historic England and the University […]
Science Art: Denisova Phalanx distalis
A finger-bone from the other archaic humans – besides Neanderthals, there were Denisovans. And one of the fragments we know them from looked like this, […]
We might have found some more archaic Denisovan people in China.
Science looks at skulls from Eastern China that appear to be the remains of the little-known Denisovan prehistoric people: Since their discovery in 2010, the […]
Hidden labyrinths in Denmark, dating back to the Stone Age.
Science Nordic reports on the mysteries of enormous Stone-Age circles found in Denmark: One of the latest additions is a huge construction, discovered by archaeologists […]
Ancient pottery reveals the past of Earth’s magnetic field.
NPR has more on how potters inadvertently preserved a record of Earth’s magnetic field 3,000 years ago: About 3,000 years ago, a potter near Jerusalem […]
Engraved Gems of Ancient Kuwait
CPH Post Online reveals the discovery, by Moesgaard Museum scientists, of 3,500-year-old treasure in Kuwait: Danish archaeologists have been working on the tiny island of […]
Jersey shore (the one in the English Channel) was a prehistoric tourist attraction for *millennia*.
Science Daily looks at the vacation habits of Neanderthals on Jersey: As part of a re-examination of La Cotte de St Brelade and its surrounding […]
America’s oldest mummy is coming home – to Nevada.
Nature salutes the gene-sequencing of the 10,600-year-old Spirit Cave Man – and his return to what we now know are his descendants, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone […]
Jordan’s Black Desert was once bustling with life
Live Science looks over thousands of inscriptions from 2,000 years ago, opening a window to a time when this arid, sandy landscape was once filled […]
Spain’s “King of Coal” jailed for destroying Neolithic site.
The Telegraph reports on multimillionaire mine-operator Victorino Alonso’s demolition of a 10,000-year-old archaeological site, an act courts have described as a “crime against heritage”: The […]
Caveman jewelry: Ostrich eggs in Siberia?
Siberian Times looks at the things that people thought were precious before people were Homo sapiens – a trove of Denisovan jewelry made from such […]
The Rat Snacks of Skara Brae.
PhysOrg gives us a new perspective on rat remains found in 5,000-year-old settlements. They weren’t eating our scraps – we were eating *them*: The new […]