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 […]
archaeology
Cavemen & modern humans… they got it on.
DNA analysis presented at the Royal Society in London shows, Nature says in the most delicate way possible, that ancient humans were getting it on […]
Cave artists mostly feminine.
National Geographic looks into the caves and reports on the earliest artists’ small, beautiful hands: Archaeologist Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University analyzed hand stencils […]
After the Ice Age, the farmers came
Sweden’s The Local rewrites history with a pre-Viking farm that they’re calling “shocking”: “It is completely unique,” Jan Heinerud at Västerbotten’s Museum in Umeå told […]
Science Art: Sangüesa, S. Maria La Real, Portal, Queens on West Side, by Georgiana Goddard King, 1915.
A plate from the American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 19, “French Figure Sculpture on Some Early Spanish Churches.” Photographed from below a deep basement. That’s […]
A book that’s physically older than Jesus.
Archaeologists in China have found a collection of bamboo texts – including copies of the I Ching, Tao Te Ching, the Analects of Confucius and […]
Jungle city discovered by laser.
If you needed any more proof we’re actually living in the pulp future of a 1920s dime novel, explorers have just used airborne lasers to […]
Cannibals of Jamestown
Smithsonian unfolds an ugly story archaeologists have uncovered of the first “successful” English settlement in America – at Jamestown, where settlers got so hungry, they […]
Now is the parking lot of our discontent made glorious excavation site by our trowels….
LiveScience wonders what we should do with the bones of this lost, wretched King Richard III: The University of Leicester, which is overseeing the excavation […]
Science Art: Seventeenth Century Sites Examined by Archaeologists, from The Archaeology of Boston pamphlet,
A map from the Massachusetts Environment Department City Archaeology Program, found on archive.org.
Egyptian princess found. (Not alive.)
PhysOrg has the details on the latest royal presence in Cairo: Czech archaeologists have unearthed the 4,500-year-old tomb of a Pharaonic princess south of Cairo, […]
The oldest un-translated language is getting clearer.
BBC reports on the linguists who have started puzzling out how to read and write in proto-Elamite: “I think we are finally on the point […]
Richard loves Richard, that is, I and I….
New Scientist may have uncovered the bones of Richard III, the king either most villainous or most misunderstood of Plantangenet: What exactly has been found? […]
Caffeine Junkies of the Lost Metropolis
Wired (suitably enough) gets all hepped up over traces of a prehistoric Starbucks in Cahokia: In a new study, researchers have found the first direct […]
Prehistoric poisoners push civilization’s start 20,000 years further back.
LiveScience looks at faint traces of deadly poisons that prove Paleolithic culture rose in Africa at the same time it did in Europe: “Our research […]