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 […]
archaeology
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 […]
We (mostly) came out of Africa together.
PhysOrg looks at three studies that suggest humans, for the most part, all came out of Africa in one migration more than 100 millennia ago: […]
Old, oooold lady figurine found (whole!) in Neolithic city.
Daily Sabah reports on the history-making implications of a very old, quite intact figurine found at a dig in Çatalhöyük: The statuette, measuring 17 centimeters […]
Mummy’s got a new face, thanks to 3D printing
Live Science takes a long look at an Egyptian mummy whose face has been reconstructed using 3D printing to turn back time: The mummified head […]
Stone circle found in Seville
Xinhua reports on the discovery of a Spanish henge – concentric circles of stones probably assembled to define a ritual space about 4,500 years ago: […]
Science Art: Vertical Image of Area A at Happisburgh, from “Hominin Footprints from Early Pleistocene Deposits at Happisburgh, UK,” 2014.
These are the feet of prehistoric humans – little feet of children, big feet of adults. Actually, it’s an infographic based on a photograph based […]
Cemetery find reveals Philistine secrets.
National Geographic discusses how a dig at Ashkelon, in southern Israel, might unravel who the Philistines really were – and how they might be related […]
Archaeologists: This New Testament is full of pee!
Live Science has more on the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, a 1,500-year-old, purple-paged book that seems to have been dyed with fermented, boiled urine: For centuries […]
Team Rainbow Power finds Denmark’s largest trove of Viking gold.
Denmark’s The Local reports on three plucky archaeologists who (apparently) have made a historic find of Viking treasure in Jutland: The three archaeologists, who call […]
Lasers find lost Cambodian empire
Guardian reports on multiple medieval Cambodian cities that had been forgotten – evidence of an entire lost empire just discovered via LIDAR scans: The Australian […]
Apollo’s Hydromancer
Ha’aretz reports on the oldest oracle to Apollo found in Athens – a place where a sacred seer drew water from a well to divine […]
Science Art: Minecraft Colosseum replica (Amphitheatrum Flavium)
Click to play One of the more interesting trends in scientific illustration lately – and I do think that it’s exactly the same kind of […]
Puzzling out Neanderthal architecture.
Nature looks at some strange things Neanderthals built for… reasons… inside their cave homes: Neanderthals built one of the world’s oldest constructions — 176,000-year-old semicircular […]
…or maybe not.
From the Facebook desk of archaeologist Katie Rask (seconded by others) comes the following correction: From the world renowned Maya specialist and Linda Schele Professor […]