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 …
Category Archives: Archaeology
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 …
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 …
