Prehistoric pigment points to archaic brain trust.
Nature reports on the discovery of an unusually advanced settlement in East Asia. Around 40,000 years ago, when Denisovans, Neanderthals, and the very first Homo […]
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The first hybrid humans ever bred was a kunga.
Science News takes us back 4,500 years to ancient Syria, where domesticated donkeys and wild asses called “hemippes” were bred together for war – as […]
Rare “exquisitely carved” Roman-era figure found along British railway route.
The Guardian shares archaeological treasure – the discovery of a 2,000-year-old wooden statue unearthed in the massive dig along the 150-mile HS2 rail project: The […]
Science Art: Magdalenian engraving of bison
This is a drawing of a drawing, a likeness of a bison engraved on cave floor at Niaux. The likeness is part of the Wellcome […]
A robot will be rebuilding Pompeii from fragments
Scientific American reports on a project using autonomous robots to reassemble the smallest fragments of the ruins of Pompeii: Their project—dubbed RePAIR (Reconstructing the Past: […]
Footprints prove people were walking around America more than 20,000 years ago.
Science presents hard evidence that humans really were in North America at the time of the last Ice Age, along with giant sloths and glyptodonts: […]
SONG: I Chant
SONG: “I Chant”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Smithsonian, 23 Feb 2021, “Archaeologists in Egypt Discover Mummy With Gold Tongue,” as used in the post “Mummified with […]
Strange, ancient Scottish balls.
LiveScience (via ScienceAlert) is puzzling over two polished stone spheres found in a Neolithic site on the isle of Sanday in the Orkneys. The stones […]
Mummified with a golden tongue, in order to speak sweetly in death.
Smithsonian Magazine reveal the probable history of a mummy found in the Egyptian temple of Taposiris Magna who was preserved with a tongue-shaped amulet made […]
Icy expedition hopes to find Shackleton’s Endurance.
LiveScience looks to Antarctica, where a new expedition hopes to find Endurance, the ship which carried polar explorer Ernest Shackleton to the frozen south before […]
Dragon man? Or Denisovan?
New Scientist looks at a possible new addition to the human family tree, an early human skull found in Harbin, China, and tentatively named Homo […]
Archaeologists danced for six hours straight – for science.
Archaeology reports on University of Helsinki researchers who held a dance marathon to find out the truth about prehistoric relics: auditory archaeologist Riitta Rainio and […]
The world’s oldest tattoo gear.
Science News looks at some sharpened bones found at a site in Tennessee. They seem to be 3,600-year-old Native American tattoo tools: These pigment-stained bones […]
A 12,500-year-old statue is rewriting history. Or prehistory.
The New York Times examines the Shigir Idol, a wooden statue from the Ural Mountains that defied decay to become the oldest known work of […]
A new Dead Sea Scroll… and even more ancient things.
NPR reports that archaeologists working in caves on the shores of the Dead Sea have found, for the first time in 60 years, another fragmentary […]