Neanderthal, The Interior Cave Decorator
A pile of hundreds of broken stalagmite pieces found deep inside Bruniquel cave, France were made by humans from about …
Category Archives: Archaeology
Neanderthals Deliberately Used Manganese To Start Fires
Scientists from Leiden University and Delft University of Technology conducted compositional sediment analyses of a 50,000 year old Neanderthal site, …
Easter Island Wasn’t Destroyed By War
For centuries, there has been this belief that Rapa Nui suffered a catastrophic population crash, possibly due to war. But …
The Role of Technology & Culture On Human Evolution
Blombos Cave is an important site discovered in the ’90’s. It is about 300 km east of Cape Town, South …
Abstract Chauvet Cave Painting Represent A 36,000 Year Old Volcano
A team of French geologists and paleontologists and led by Jean-Michel Geneste, published in PLoS One that they believe that they have …
Between The Knots, Untying The Mystery Of Incan Khipus
Khipus are an ancient language system in the form of wool or cotton strings with knots. There is an intricate …
No Link Between Introduction of Agriculture & Human Population Growth
Currently, the human population growth is about 1% per year. Prehistoric human population growth, from beginning of the end of …
Ötzi’s Got The Oldest Known Tattoos
Tattoos are becoming ubiquitous. The art of tattooing is ancient, but when it began is unknown. Written records date the …
6,000 Year Old Death Pit Indicates Some Neolithic People Weren’t So Egalitarian
Circular burial pits like the one shown above were common during the Neolithic period in Central and Western Europe some …
Bronze Age Trade Routes between Iran & Mesopotamia
Where did the black diorite and gabbro stone that ancient Mesopotamian statues come from? They aren’t found in Iraq and …
