Cave Drawings in France Prompt a Reevaluation of Paleolithic Art (news.artnet.com)
2,000-year-old 'celestial calendar' discovered in ancient Chinese tomb (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in China have unearthed a mysterious set of rectangular wooden pieces linked to an ancient astronomical calendar. The artifacts were discovered inside an exceptionally well-preserved 2,000-year-old tomb in the southwest of the country....
What Lies Beneath the Vatican of the Zapotecs? | NYT (www.nytimes.com)
10 extraordinary treasures that archaeologists unearthed this year (www.livescience.com)
As long as humans have been minting coins and crafting beautiful jewelry and other stunning collectibles, an equal number of people have been right behind them searching for these precious finds. Here are 10 extraordinary discoveries made in 2023 that prove that the hunt for buried treasure never gets old.
Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. What if this was not accidental? (www.theguardian.com)
Men and women might have had their fingers deliberately chopped off during religious rituals in prehistoric times, according to a new interpretation of palaeolithic cave art....
Direct dating of human fossils and the ever-changing story of human evolution (www.sciencedirect.com)
Skull with 'execution-style wounds' suggests woman died due to enslavement or suspected sorcery in colonial Indonesia (www.livescience.com)
This 2,300-year-old Mosaic Made of Shells and Coral Has Just Been Found Buried Under Rome (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Dress code: How a Winnipeg codebreaker cracked one of the 'world's top unsolved messages' | CBC (www.cbc.ca)
Ancient Scythians Did Make Leather Out of Human Skin After All (www.sciencealert.com)
Discovery of 'calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo in US Southwest surpasses 'wildest expectations' (www.livescience.com)
Temple linked to Hercules and Alexander the Great discovered in ancient megacity in Iraq (www.livescience.com)
Rise of archery in Andes Mountains dated to 5,000 years ago—earlier than previous research (phys.org)
When did archery arise in the Americas? And what were the effects of this technology on society?...
Analysis of ancient Scythian leather samples shows two were made from human skin (phys.org)
A multi-institutional team of anthropologists has discovered that two pieces of ancient Scythian leather excavated at sites in Ukraine were made from human skin. In their project, reported on the open-access site PLOS ONE, the group tested an account by the Greek historian Herodotus regarding certain behaviors of ancient...
Mesopotamian bricks unveil the strength of Earth's ancient magnetic field (phys.org)
Ancient bricks inscribed with the names of Mesopotamian kings have yielded important insights into a mysterious anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field 3,000 years ago, according to a new study involving University College London researchers....
Oldest known ship burial discovered in Norway predates Vikings (www.livescience.com)
First discovery of carbon-based cave art in France's Dordogne region could pave way for precise radiocarbon dating (phys.org)
The Dordogne region of southern France is home to over 200 caves decorated with colorful Paleolithic art, but little is known about how old it is. Due to its coloration with iron- or manganese-oxide-based material, radiocarbon dating of the art has not been possible, and it has been generally thought to have been created during...
National Trust archaeologists find medieval ‘gift token’ in Norfolk (www.theguardian.com)
The Met to return looted ancient artworks to Thailand and Cambodia (www.bbc.com)
The World's Oldest Settlements Were Built by a Culture Nobody Expected (www.sciencealert.com)
Three killed while repairing ancient wall at Unesco world heritage site in Tunisia (www.theguardian.com)
'Unique' cave art discovered in Madagascar hints at connections with ancient Egypt and Borneo (www.livescience.com)
Unique, prehistoric rock art drawings have been discovered in the Andriamamelo Cave in western Madagascar....
North America's first people may have arrived by sea ice highway as early as 24,000 years ago (phys.org)
One of the hottest debates in archaeology is how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally argued that people walked through an ice-free corridor that briefly opened between ice sheets an estimated 13,000 years ago....