Why thank you, Br’er Fox….
Humans weren’t best friends with dogs first, says the Discoveryon blog. Archaeologists have found evidence that foxes may have been our pets first: Scientists analysing […]
archaeology
…but the kind with a club that belongs to him.
New Scientist reopens that old, old scandal between we modern humans and our sexy, sexy Neanderthal cousins: Instead, a team led by Jeffrey Long, at […]
An older testament.
The Vancouver Sun unearths the story of a possible Assyrian source for the Hebrew covenant: The tablet, dating to about 670 BC, is a treaty […]
“WHAT did you just pick up?”
BBC shares the cute story of the discovery of what could be our greatest grandparents, the oldest members of the genus Homo: The site was […]
Science Art: Cist of a Child Found at the Gates of Athens, by P. Broux
Click to embiggen I found this on the wonderful Old Book Illustrations blog. It’s from Les merveilles de l’industrie (The wonders of industry), an 1871 […]
So that’s what written Pict looks like….
Discovery News takes another look at Iron Age Scotland and finds something more than pretty pictures: The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, […]
Eldest alphabet.
New Scientist takes a closer look at the squiggly bits around some famous cave paintings – shapes that might just be some of the world’s […]
Once, we were endangered.
SciAm puts us back in our place with the revelation from our DNA that humans used to be rarer than mountain gorillas: [A]ccording to scientists […]
Ancient Amazonian society revealed.
National Geographic really does specialize in that whole lost jungle city thing, doesn’t it? And it’s so nice when they actually deliver faint traces of […]
SONG: A Strong Enough Lie
SONG: “A Strong Enough Lie” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Vanished Persian army said found in desert”, Discovery News, 9 […]
Like a wolf on the fold. Like an ocean of choking sand.
Discovery News has me imagining the text of a classified ad in the ARCHAEOLOGY – PRE-CHRISTIAN section…. Found: Persian army. Lots of mileage, but well-preserved: […]
Out of Asia.
The “tree where Man was born” might not be growing near Cape Town after all, some archeologists have said recently on PhysOrg. It might have […]
Cave man boogie.
The New York Times reports on a German discovery – or, really, a whole set of discoveries – of Stone Age tools, sculptures and the […]
Needed: Rosetta Stones, good condition, not yet used.
Just in case you thought we knew everything there was to know about the ancient world, New Scientist brings a little mystery back with their […]
Hobbit feet.
The New York Times has nothing better to do than look at hobbit feet: The new anatomical evidence, being reported Thursday in the journal Nature, […]