So, a 15-year-old just discovered a Mayan city… without leaving home.
All kinds of news outlets have picked up this Le Journal de Montreal story on William Gadoury, a teenager who noticed that Mayan constellations lined […]
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SONG: “Meat Man”
SONG: “Meat Man”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “High-Protein Diet May Have Shaped Neanderthals,” Archaeology, 30 March 2016, as used in the post Protein Diet Shaped Neanderthals. […]
Metal whip for self-flagellating monks during Black Death: Go ahead, beat yourself up over it.
Discovery News has the painful truth on the braided copper whip: Found in 2014 at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, the braided-together length of copper wire, turned […]
Protein Diet Shaped Neanderthals
Archaeology thinks a paleo-version of the Atkins Diet made Neanderthals squat and wide-bodied: “During harsh Ice-Age winters, carbohydrates were scarce and fat was in limited […]
We probably drove hobbits to extinction.
Nature reveals new evidence that shows Homo floresiensis is way older than we thought – and may well have been driven to extinction by modern […]
Mock weapons from the Iron Age
Science Daily pores over the mysterious discovery of a collection of non-functional metal weapons from more than 2,600 years ago: Discovered in 2009, the site […]
A remarkable woman, 2,500 years ago.
The Times of Israel reports on an unusual discovery – a small seal (as in wax-and-envelope, not as in hunted-in-Arctic) that belonged to a powerful […]
14 sided dice. They found an ancient board game that uses those.
Live Science has some interesting photos and coverage of a new discovery of a very old board game: Pieces from a mysterious board game that […]
Cahokian human sacrifices picked local victims.
Western Digs reveals the latest discovery from the metropolis of middle America – where they practiced human sacrifice with their own citizens: But one of […]
“They ate better than we did.” Scans reveal Pompeii victims’ health.
TheLocal.it looks at the petrified remains of Ancient Roman volcano victims: A recently launched project that is performing CAT scans on the remains of Pompeii […]
Salmon snacks sent Stone Age settlers south.
New Scientist reveals how the first Americans made their way into Alaska and down… by eating salmon along the way: The bones were discovered in […]
New Stonehenge discovery = “Archaeology on steroids.”
The Guardian bulks up over scientific enthusiasm for a long-buried stone structure: Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a massive stone monument buried under a […]
Sea monster found off Sweden – and archaeologists are thrilled.
Denmark’s The Local shares the excitement of discovering a 400-year-old dragon – a figurehead from a Danish ship – that has been hidden in the […]
The Lost Colony… found?
New York Times reveals what might be the ultimate fate of the Lost Colony of Roanoke: They call the spot Site X. Down a dusty […]
Makin’ babies with Neanderthals *changed* us.
As a species. In some pretty profound ways, Nature says. They highlight a few of the “outsize effects” our Neanderthal genes have on our lives: […]