5,700 Year Old Chewing Gum Reveals Insights On Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Life in Denmark
Theis Jensen, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Copenhagen, and colleagues, published a report in Nature Communications about a the …
Category Archives: Archaeology
A 43,900-year-old Cave Painting in Sulawesi, Indonesia is the Oldest Hunting Story Depicted
Archaeologist Maxime Aubert, from Griffith University and his colleagues have published, in Nature, the discovery of the oldest depicted hunting …
80,000 Year Old Le Rozel footprints in Normandy Represent Neanderthal Social Structure
Since 2012, Jeremy Duveau of France’s National Museum of Natural History and his colleagues have been excavating the Le Rozel …
How did the Eastern Island Maoi Get 13-Ton Hats
One of my interests in the peopling of the Americas are the Easter Island maoi statues made by the Rapanui …
Growing ‘Mini-Brains’ With Neanderthal DNA
Svante Pääbo, director of the genetics department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany wants to …
Someone Butchered a Rhino in the Philippines 700,000 Years Ago, But Who?
Yesterday, Nature published an alarming find of butchered rhinoceros remains from the Kalinga site in the Cagayan Valley on Luzon in the …
The 550 Year Old Chimú Site in Las Llamas, Peru Is World’s Largest Child Sacrifice Site
The pre-Columbian burial site of the Chimú civilization known as Las Llamas, in northern Peru contains the skeletons of 140 …
Humans Walked Along the Beaches of British Columbia 13,000 Years Ago
Off the shore of Calvert Island in B.C., Duncan McLaren of the University of Victoria & Hakai Institute and team discovered …
Oldest Human DNA from Africa Clues Us On Ancient Moroccan Heritage
In 2015 the first African ancient genome of 4,500-year-old human remains found in Ethiopia were published. Now more ancient Africa DNA has been …
Debunking Toba Catastrophe Theory
One of the most popular posts here is Tim Jones’ post, published almost 11 years ago on the Toba Eruption. Toba …
