Asian cave paintings reveal universal art.
National Geographic explains why cave paintings in Sulawesi are winding back the origin of “art” as a concept to our African origins: “Overwhelmingly depicted in […]
archaeology
How all the Stone Age people learned the same tricks at the same time.
Nature examines – and possibly answers – a long-standing archaeological puzzle. How did a bunch of unrelated paleolithic people in different parts of the world […]
Kid finds 3,000-year-old sword… while washing his hands.
It helps, as the BBC points out, if you’re washing your hands in a river running through one of the world’s oldest civilizations. But for […]
Neanderthals made art. Like we do.
The Associated Press (through the Wall Street Journal and other outlets) has been sharing the discovery of the artwork that changes the way we think […]
Climate change and social upheaval, the last time around…4,000 years ago.
The National (of the UAE) reports on radical new ways to deal with climate change… from the dawn of civilization: The Bronze Age transition from […]
Mummies: WAAAY older than we thought.
Jesus lived 2,000 years ago. There was no such thing as the English language, and most human beings had never even seen paper. 2,500 years […]
1,000,000-year-old tools.
That’s what Sci-News.com and Science Daily are reporting that University of Toronto researchers have found. A trove of thousands of really really old tools: Science […]
This is the world’s oldest smutty graffiti.
The Guardian opens the classicists’ bathroom door to reveal a Greek discovery – world’s oldest erotic graffiti: Certainly, Dr Andreas Vlachopoulos, a specialist in prehistoric […]
“Mind-blowing” Viking discovery made in Ireland.
Irish Central has more on the pristine site in a little village in County Louth that used to be a Viking winter base: Geophysical tests […]
Fisherman reels in pagan god.
A Siberian fisherman netted a priceless archaeological artifact – a little statue from 2000 BCE. No word from the New York Daily News on the […]
Civilization has vegetarian roots.
At least, Laboratory Equipment says, in ancient Egypt. A new study of carbon-levels in mummies has found that until recently, when people settled down to […]
Out of the Cattle Crescent.
Science Daily twists the archaeological order of things around a little. Humans came out of Africa, humans in Africa have domesticated cattle for thousands of […]
2,000-year-old village uncovered… in downtown Miami.
Miami Herald gets the low-down on the underground 305 – hidden under Miami streets and condos and neon-lit skyscrapers, there’s a prehistoric village (and a […]
Drill two holes in your head and see me in the morning.
PhysOrg takes a deeper look at the reasons why prehistoric doctors poked holes in their patients’ heads: However, evidence shows that healers in Peru practiced […]
Oldest ancestor’s DNA is sequenced.
Meaning, although PhysOrg stops short of saying so, that we could maybe someday build a hominin from scratch. As it is, though, we’ve still got […]