The Krapina Neanderthals Used Toothpicks
Bulletin of the International Association for Paleodontology recently published discovery of multiple toothpick grooves on 130,000 year old Krapina Neanderthal teeth. …
Category Archives: Archaeology
Göbekli Tepe Skull Cult
The internet has been buzzing about a potential 11,500-12,000 year old skull cult from Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. Göbekli Tepe …
The Convergence of Ecology & Selection for the Domestication of the Horse
Two new recent studies have been published which attempt to pinpoint the how and why of prehistoric horse domestication in …
Incredible New Evidence for Peopling of the Americas 130,000 Years Ago
It is pretty well agreed that Homo sapiens spread out of Africa about 100,000 years ago and traveled across Asia about 60,000 …
Untangling The Ancient Khipu Code Of Strings
Last week in Current Anthropology, University of St. Andrews anthropologist Sabine Hyland, published, “Writing with Twisted Cords: The Inscriptive Capacity …
Interpreting Paleolithic Funerary Rites from Broken Ochred Pebbles
Claudine Gravel-Miguel, archaeology doctoral student at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, research has taken …
The Caloric Disappointment Of Cannibalism
Cannibalism is not uncommon; almost every documented culture has done it. In the cave dwellings of Homo antecessor, the common …
The Neanderthal Cultural Significance Of A Decorated Crimean Raven Bone
In the last decade or so, we have illuminated Neanderthals demonstrated complex culture, such as the burial in Shanidar, were interior …
13,000 Year Old Tooth Filling Are The Oldest Evidence Of Dentistry Known
A pair of 13,000-year-old incisors found contain the earliest known use of fillings – made out of bitumen, or asphalt/cement. …
14,000-year-old Canadian Village is One of the Oldest North American Settlements
Excavations on Triquet Island, about 500 kilometres northwest of Victoria, Canada, have yield extremely rare artifacts, like an atlatl, compound …
