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 […]
archaeology
Archaeologists: DeSoto WUZ HEER.
The Wilmington, NC, Star News celebrates a rare Floridian trace of a Hernan De Soto’s march from Tampa Bay up through Tennessee, into Arkansas and […]
New Mayan text: Party like it’s 2012.
LiveScience reports on the second Mayan text ever discovered that refers to the famous end of the Mayan calendar. They didn’t think the world was […]
Science Art: Le Moustier Neanderthals, by Charles L. Knight.
Click to embiggen We’ve featured prehistoric illustrator Charles L. Knight on these pages before. While he’s best known for his dinosaur portraiture, here he moved […]
SONG: Tired (A Neanderthal Complains)
SONG: “Tired (A Neanderthal Complains).” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Neanderthals may have been first human species to […]
Neanderthals made beautiful things.
Guardian sheds new light on our so-called primitive cousins, the Neanderthals, by looking at the the oldest cave paintings ever found: Now comes what could […]
The oldest instruments ever played.
BBC gets into some *really* vintage sound, grooving with the world’s oldest flutes: The flutes, made from bird bone and mammoth ivory, come from a […]
Worship of the White Shaman
Discover gets some of that OLD time Texas religion, decoding who, what and how the White Shaman of the Rio Grande really worshipped: The land […]
Renaissance grave reveals what it takes to kill a vampire.
LiveScience unearths a scientific controversy over what seems to be a plague victim’s corpse defaced by vampire hunters: The controversy begins with a mass grave […]
The world’s first winemakers were the world’s first beekeepers.
They lived in the Republic of Georgia, says Eurasianet.org, where scientists have just found 5,500-year-old honeypots: The honey stains found in the ceramic vessels, found […]
New World’s oldest rock carving: “Little Horny Man.”
And yes, it’s what you expect. LiveScience reports on the giant penis that’s redefining world history: The time frame during which humans first reached the […]
Rock star buried in the Valley of the Kings
The Independent goes way back, digging up the history of the diva of the pharaohs: It is the only tomb of a woman not related […]
Visionary Mayan tobacco.
Discovery savors the very faint aroma of a 1,300-year-old Mayan tobacco flask – the first physical evidence that Mayans used super-strong tobacco: None of the […]
Last Neanderthals.
Next thing you know, they’re going to be showing up in our back yards. But Past Horizons says the last Neanderthals were about 8,000 years […]
Pet wolves of prehistoric China.
Past Horizons may have revealed the secret origins of man’s best friend – among the domesticated wolves of Southeast Asia: Data on genetics, morphology and […]