BBC shares the cute story of the discovery of what could be our greatest grandparents, the oldest members of the genus Homo:
… Read the rest ““WHAT did you just pick up?””The site was found by the team thanks to the “virtual globe”
I found this on the wonderful Old Book Illustrations blog. It’s from Les merveilles de l’industrie (The wonders of industry), an 1871 celebration of technological… Read the rest “Science Art: Cist of a Child Found at the Gates of Athens, by P. Broux”
Discovery News takes another look at Iron Age Scotland and finds something more than pretty pictures:
… Read the rest “So that’s what written Pict looks like….”The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, carved stones that
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 oldest written messages:
… Read the rest “Eldest alphabet.”While some
SciAm puts us back in our place with the revelation from our DNA that humans used to be rarer than mountain gorillas:
… Read the rest “Once, we were endangered.”[A]ccording to scientists from the University of Utah, about a million
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 long-gone civilizations… Read the rest “Ancient Amazonian society revealed.”
SONG: “A Strong Enough Lie” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Vanished Persian army said found in desert”… Read the rest “SONG: A Strong Enough Lie”
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:
… Read the rest “Like a wolf on the fold. Like an ocean of choking sand.”Bronze
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 taken root closer to Rangoon:
… Read the rest “Out of Asia.”In
The New York Times reports on a German discovery – or, really, a whole set of discoveries – of Stone Age tools, sculptures and the oldest known flutes:
… Read the rest “Cave man boogie.”Dr. Conard, a professor
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 list of eight untranslated alphabets:
… Read the rest “Needed: Rosetta Stones, good condition, not yet used.”These fall
The New York Times has nothing better to do than look at hobbit feet:
… Read the rest “Hobbit feet.”The new anatomical evidence, being reported Thursday in the journal Nature, is unlikely to solve the mystery of just where
Researchers have pushed back the date humanity landed in China by a colossal 200,000 years, LiveScience reports. The latest dating of Homo erectus skulls from the Zhoukoudian cave system… Read the rest “Peking man is an old, old man.”
The same mysterious civilization that left us the lines and inspirational giant pyramids also left puzzling piles of human heads… and PhysOrg.com reports that the more we learn … Read the rest “Trophy Heads of Nazca.”
Archaeologists found a surprise inside the severed skull of a man who lived in Britain before the Romans came. As PhysOrg reports, it had Britain’s oldest pickled brain inside:
… Read the rest “A 2,000-Year-Old Brain”The
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