A 15th century French painting depicts an ancient stone tool (phys.org)
More than 500,000 years ago, our human ancestors used large, stone tools known as “Acheulean handaxes,” to cut meat and wood, and dig for tubers. Often made from flint, these prehistoric oval and pear-shaped tools are flaked on both sides and have a pointed end....
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How Asia’s first nomadic empire broke the rules of imperial expansion (www.sciencenews.org)
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Did Ancient Egyptians Know Meteorites Came From Space? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Crusade period grave field discovered in Southwest Finland (yle.fi)
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Phallus and the boar: Turkey digs yield clues to human history (uk.news.yahoo.com)
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Study shows beavers had a big influence on how people in the Stone Age lived (phys.org)
Beavers may seem like a recent arrival to the Netherlands, with their growing presence in recent years. The species became extinct there in the 19th century and was reintroduced in 1988. But before that beavers were widespread for thousands of years. “It really is a native species,” says Brusgaard. “In our research we...
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Early Neolithic farmers arriving on the Baltic coast bucked trends and incorporated fish into their diets (phys.org)
Pioneering early farmers who arrived on the Baltic coast 6,000 years ago may have taken up fishing after observing indigenous hunter-gatherer communities, a major new study has found....
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How a Bronze Age rock became a 'treasure map' for researchers (phys.org)
A piece of rock with mysterious markings that lay largely unstudied for 4,000 years is now being hailed as a “treasure map” for archaeologists, who are using it to hunt for ancient sites around north-western France....
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See gorgeous ancient Egyptian 'mummy portraits' from nearly 2 millennia ago (www.livescience.com)
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Cannibalism was a common funerary rite in northwest Europe near end of last ice age (www.livescience.com)
Cannibalism was common in northwest Europe between 14,000 and 19,000 years ago, when a population of prehistoric people known as the Magdalenians used it in their rituals to dispose of the dead, a new study finds....
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More Than 10,000 Indigenous Earthworks Hidden in the Amazon Reveal Human Connections to the Forest Over Millennia (www.thisiscolossal.com)
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Child’s Grave Unearths Ancient Mystery: 9,000-Year-Old Necklace Redefines Neolithic Culture (scitechdaily.com)
An ancient necklace from a child’s grave in Jordan reveals the Neolithic culture’s social intricacies, highlighting the importance of adornments and suggesting complex societal dynamics of the period. Final physical reconstruction of the necklace, today exposed at the new museum of Petra in Jordan.
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Mythical hellhound and sea-centaurs painted on 2,200-year-old tomb discovered in Italy (www.livescience.com)
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Researchers use AI to read word on ancient scroll burned by Vesuvius (www.theguardian.com)
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The 1st Americans were not who we thought they were (www.livescience.com)
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First direct evidence of lion hunting and the early use of a lion pelt by Neanderthals (www.nature.com)
During the Upper Paleolithic, lions become an important theme in Paleolithic art and are more frequent in anthropogenic faunal assemblages. However, the relationship between hominins and lions in earlier periods is poorly known and primarily interpreted as interspecies competition. Here we present new evidence for...
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Archaeologists Discover Remains of 5,000-Year-Old Wine in Ancient Egyptian Tomb (www.sciencealert.com)
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Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir (knowyourmeme.com)
Amazon review from c. 1750 BC
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Research finds dramatic increase in cranial traumas as the first cities were being built, suggesting a rise in violence (phys.org)
The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants. Laws, centralized administration, trade and culture then caused the ratio of violent deaths to fall back again in the Early and Middle Bronze Age (3,300 to 1,500 BCE). This is the conclusion of...
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Another gold treasure in Norway: 1400 year old gold foil figures found in pagan temple (sciencenorway.no)
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'Exceedingly rare' horse bridle discovered in melting ice in Norway could date to Viking Age (www.livescience.com)
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1900-year-old Child’s Nightgown with intriguing knots found in the Cave of Letters in the Judean Desert (arkeonews.net)
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'Exceptional' 1,800-year-old sarcophagus unearthed in France held woman of 'special status' (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists excavating an ancient necropolis in northeastern France have discovered an unlooted, unopened Roman-era sarcophagus dating to the second century A.D. The tomb likely holds the remains of an elite woman, archaeologists said.
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The museum collections scene is the most realistic scene in Indiana Jones, cmv. (mander.xyz)
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