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 …
Category Archives: Archaeology
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 …
The Mayan Pet Trade Was Thriving 2,400 Years Ago
The journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a paper yesterday on the results animal remains from a …
The Role of Climate Change on Early Human Society & Creativity in Kenya’s Olorgesailie Basin
Based on the following three recently published Science studies, in order to survive the climate chances 320,000 ago, early …
Qesem Cave’s 400,000 Year Old Stone Tool Making Classroom
Israel’s Qesem cave is approx. 12 km east of Tel Aviv. At 420,000 to 220,000 years old, it is a …
Linking Early Human Language & Cave Art
Human language is thought to emerge around 100,000 years ago as an abstract symbolic system. It is very likely that …
World’s Oldest Cave Art Made By Neanderthals
In two new studies, published yesterday in Science and Science Advances, researchers Alistair Pike, an archaeologist at the University of Southampton, João Zilhão, …
LiDAR Scanning reveals ‘lost’ ancient Angamuco city ‘had as many buildings as Manhattan’
LiDAR is a technology we outlined earlier this month in identifying Mayan ruins. It is the same technology used in …
Richard Coss Argues Neanderthals Didn’t Make Art Because They Were Inferior Hunters
In an article recently published in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, Richard Coss, a professor emeritus of psychology, …
