archeology

At the bottom of the article, the archeologist recounts how he was told he shouldn't bother excavating in the Amazon because it was "known" that there were "no cities in the Amazon." Talk about not finding anything because you are not looking for it! Thankfully, as he says in the article, this...

Wow, let's see: intentional burial of the dead, fire, symbolic rock markings, infants to old folks, sounds pretty human to me...Melodi (and boy will this set the cat among the academic pigeons). Best seen at the link with multiple images - one included here...

I've known about this discovery for several weeks, but the first announcements didn't have much information. For context, this find isn't at Ur, but it is from the time of Abraham (more or less). It is probably an example of places he would have had a meal in Ur or where King Gilgamesh might...

More on one of my favorite topics, a new find both upends when they thought "modern" humans got to Europe and extends by 10,000 years (at least) when the two groups of humans lived in the same area. Also, bows and arrows may go back a lot further than was believed until now. Again, I think...

The unusual things about this grave are not that the warrior is female, that's been shown to be fairly common among these steps people since the early 1990s. It is her very young age and the fact that she doesn't have any of her "girlie" gear buried with her along with her weapons. Most of...

And more fun from very early (first dynastic period) Egypt, this is an important find. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10200277/One-six-missing-Pharaohs-sun-temples-archaeologists-Egyptian-desert.html One of the six missing Pharaoh's sun temples is FOUND by archaeologists in the...

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-are-adult-daughters-missing-ancient-german-cemeteries?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Facebook Why are adult daughters missing from ancient German cemeteries? DNA and artifacts reveal marriage and inheritance patterns among Bronze Age...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/evidence-of-fur-and-leather-clothing-among-worlds-oldest-found-in-moroccan-cave-180978689/ Evidence of Fur and Leather Clothing, Among World’s Oldest, Found in Moroccan Cave Humans likely sported clothes made of jackal, fox and wildcat skins some...

When I first saw this headline I was extremely skeptical - archeologists (especially in some places) love to make fantastical claims that sound exciting to the public, but then I got chills when I read the last paragraph as that plaque/inscription I believe is referred to in the ancient sources...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9664933/Pierced-skull-Ice-Age-cave-bear-earliest-evidence-humans-hunting-animal.html Skull of small cave bear from the last ICE AGE that was pierced by a spear may be the earliest evidence of humans hunting the animal Skull of a small cave bear...

I tried going to the original journal article but is behind an institutional paywall, but the UK Daily Mail article is actually pretty good as far as it goes. I can't wait to show this to Nightwolf - although I think this was more about trying to talk the god in charge of Volcanos (Sert) into...

I've often wondered what ancient epics, plays, and even great speeches have been lost from the destruction of the Aztec Books, reading this article I except a great deal was lost. This article doesn't say but I'd also be curious about the relationship between this writing and the Mayan writing...

I am posting this both because it is historically interesting, but also because it shows that it is possible to maintain "pockets" of civilization (in this case Roman Civilization) for even a couple of centuries after the "center no longer holds." I thought this was an important and interesting...

Some people were wondering on some of the recent archeological threads what happens when finds are located on the sites for intended construction projects and since probably 80 percent of the big finds in These Islands (UK, Ireland, even Iceland) as well as mainland Europe tend to be the happy...

I have people who are up-to-date in the field looking at his Yahoo News article but if the story pans out as presented (some do and some don't) then there will be evidence that people were in the Americans 16 to 17 thousand years BEFORE my textbooks insisted were possible in 1975 and for many...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/archaeology-anicent-british-chieftain-shaman-burial-ritual-a9480321.html Unearthed Ancient British chieftain and probable shaman reveal secrets about old burial rituals Exclusive: The key evidence for his high status is the unusually fine...

Wow, hints of 90,000 years ago! And more information on the weaving I've mentioned from 28,000 years ago - I will be ordering this book next month - this chapter was published as a stand-along article. What If We Called It the ‘Flax Age’ Instead of the ‘Iron Age’? Correcting the Historical Bias...

I changed the headline because the one on this article didn't make sense but the basic information was much better than the other paper's headline "Norse Code" which was also confusing - Melodi The native Irish population was in centuries of decline before the Vikings came along Scientists...

[If you ignore the academic mumbo-jumbo this is a really interesting article on the Norse Home, I am thinking of getting the book if it isn't too high priced - a lot of academic books are insane when it comes to pricing - Melodi]...

Stone Age treasures unearthed in Sussex offer extraordinary insight into evolution of human intelligence Exclusive: Research suggests early humans living at least 500,000 years ago had anatomically modern human-like hands David Keys Archaeology Correspondent @davidmkeys Artist's impression...

Cave girl was half Neanderthal, half Denisovan By Helen Briggs BBC News 3 hours ago Image copyrightB VIOLA, MPI-EVA Image caption Denisova cave in Siberia: Scene of an ancient liaison Once upon a time, two early humans of different ancestry met at a cave in Russia. Some 50,000 years later...

[I]So now actual wheat and barley bread can be traced back to Hunters and Gatherers 14,000 years ago; this combines with the much older oatcakes (I think that was about 20,000 but I don't have the information to hand; shows that Yes Virginia; hunters and gathers did cook and process GRAINS...

If the Romans were seriously whaling, as opposed to say the occasional catch of opportunity; then it leads to a lot of other questions like; was ALL their boats really unable to sail open waters? and Did they follow the "Whale Road" and if so just how far? (it goes all the way from the North...

A set of ancient teeth unlock a bacterial secret about the bubonic plague By IKE SWETLITZ @ikeswetlitz JUNE 8, 2018 In the Samara region of Russia, the double burial of a man and woman, whose teeth revealed that the bacteria causing bubonic plague is almost 1,000 years older than previously...

Hummm....I recall another article/thread that talked about Landsat imagery being reviewed by historians/archeologists finding all sorts of ancient cities they had only heard of in ancient texts.... For links see article source..... Posted for fair use...

I don't drink often but if we had booze in this apartment I'd have one, I'll setle for tea instead; I only regret my major professor didn't live long enough to see this; he's probably having a drink somewhere in the Otherworld, possibly with some of the first ancestors to reach the...

And in the category of news that may upset more archeological apple carts - today we have Neanderthal and human DNA mixed way sooner in Europe than it "should" be happening - I LOVE stories like this...

And once gain now that "Clovis Only" has finally bitten the dust, the real ages of sites in North America are being sorted out - a village this early is really amazing for ANYWHERE in the world, much less North America. 14,000-year-old village discovered in Canada one of oldest settlements ever...

I've always said it is hard to find what you are not looking for, as I predicted here once they validated Neanderthal DNA in modern humans, this stuff is coming out of the wood work and a lot of it is from old finds that were never properly looked at because "we know" they "didn't do this, that...

And just one day after I suggested something like this - we have this from The Western Digs Archeology site! I did wonder when this would show up because honestly it is so obviously likely - people had boats and they were going across all the time long before the Russians Settled Alaska; next...

I think it is hilarious that the first reports of this were thought to be a hoax; I mean it is well known at this point that there was trade between China and the Ancient Roman Empire, and China traded with Japan- makes perfect sense; I mean after all two Chinese skeletons were buried in Roman...

:eleph: Here is the link to a story indicating even now on Planet Earth we can still "lose" a city for nearly 1,000 years. Hopefully, it will be correctly studied before the cows are turned lose on it...