Neanderthals The five: surprising talents of the NeanderthalsThe Guardian - Laura PotierLast week, researchers from Washington University announced they had investigated the ear remains of 23 Neanderthals and found that around half had bony growths that suggested aquatic foraging was a prominent
Ancient GreeceThese are the 10 oldest jokes in human history — and they prove that people have been laughing about their animals and sexINSIDER - Bill Bostock In 2008 a group of historians from the UK were commissioned to unearth the oldest joke ever written down. The study was led by humor expert Dr Paul …
Humanity Ice Age Humans Likely Played Major Role in Cave Bears’ Extinctionsmithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly Giant cave bears weighing up to 2,000 pounds roamed the European continent for more than 100,000 years. But around 20,000 years ago, the …
Science Earliest evidence of human mountaineers found in EthiopiaFox News - LiveScienceAncient humans lived off giant mole rats high in the mountains of Ethiopia to survive the last ice age, a new study finds. Previous research had suggested that high-altitude regions such as Tibet and Andes
Pompeii Trove of jewels and charms found at Pompeii give insight into 'female world' of Ancient RomeEuronews - By Caroline MortimerArchaeologists working in Pompeii have found a collection of ornate jewellery, glass beads and good luck charms which they say give them an insight into 'the female world' of ancient Rome. The collection
Ancient History Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of an Ancient High-Altitude Human Dwellingsmithsonianmag.com - Brigit Katz Life in high-altitude mountains can be rough. Resources are scarce, the weather can be extreme and oxygen levels hover at dangerously low levels. …
World News In the Ethiopian Mountains, Ancient Humans Were Living the High LifeThe New York Times - By CARL ZIMMERScientists have discovered what is by far the oldest evidence of human occupation at extreme altitudes: a rock shelter strewn with bones, tools and hearths 11,000 feet above sea level. People lived at
Magnetism Mesoamerican Sculptures Reveal Early Knowledge of Magnetismsmithsonianmag.com - Joshua Rapp Learn Magnets are a mystery that has baffled scientists and philosophers for millennia, and researchers still don’t fully understand the properties that …
Geek Bread Baked With 4,500-Year-Old Yeast Tastes ‘Incredible’Geek - By Stephanie Mlot It’s one thing to eat food that’s a day or two (or three) past its expiration date. But would you trust an ingredient 4,500 years beyond its shelf …
Ancient History Ancient Maya practiced 'total war' well before climate stressNational Geographic - Tim VernimmenIt's thought that widespread destruction of Maya cities only began when droughts threatened food supplies. A surprising find at the bottom of a lake is helping to upend that theory. A long-standing idea
Science New dinosaur identified after 'hiding in plain sight'Fox News - Chris CiacciaResearchers have identified a new type of dinosaur after it was "hiding in plain sight" at a museum in South Africa for nearly 30 years. Now known as Ngwevu intloko, the omnivore at been sitting in a of
Kazakhstan Young Couple Buried Face to Face 4,000 Years Ago Unearthed in Kazakhstantheepochtimes.com - GQ Pan The bodies of a young man and woman who died 4,000 years ago have been found buried face-to-face in a grave in Kazakhstan. A Bronze Age cemetery was …
Prehistory Who were the mysterious Neolithic people that enabled the rise of ancient Egypt? Here's what we've learned on our digsThe Conversation UK - Joel D. Irish and Czekaj- Zastawny Agnieszka and Jacek Kabacinski To many, ancient Egypt is synonymous with the pharaohs and pyramids of the Dynastic period starting about 3,100BC. Yet long before that, about …
Play buttonDinosaurs Paleontologists find giant dinosaur bone in southwestern FranceFrance 24 - NEWS WIRESThe thigh bone of a giant dinosaur was found this week by French paleontologists at an excavation site in southwestern France where remains of some of the largest animals that ever lived on land have dug
Culture Where Was Babylon and Does It Still Exist?howstuffworks.com - Dave Roos At the height of its glory in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C.E., the city of Babylon was the largest and wealthiest in the ancient world. Under the …
A "Game-Changing" 10,000-Year-Old Neolithic City Has Been Unearthed Near JerusalemScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill A giant human settlement dating back to the Stone Age has been discovered near Jerusalem, and researchers say it's not just the largest of its kind …
Humanity Out of Africa and into an archaic human melting potphys.org - Robyn Mills Genetic analysis has revealed that the ancestors of modern humans interbred with at least five different archaic human groups as they moved out of …
140 Million Years Ago, a Bird-Like Dinosaur Swallowed a Lizard Whole. Here’s Why Its Final Meal Is Exciting Researcherssmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley About 140 million years ago a microraptor—a bird-like dinosaur with four feathered wings—was zipping around in what is today northeastern China when …
Were Neanderthals Right-Handed?The Atlantic - Anna GoldfieldIn one study, at least 85 percent of Neanderthal tools appeared to be made for a user whose right side was dominant. The human body is often visualized as a symmetrical form: Picture the geometric precision
Mali Sahara was home to some of largest sea creatures, study findsThe Guardian - Ruth MacleanScientists reconstruct extinct species using fossils found in northern Mali from ancient seaway Some of the biggest catfish and sea snakes to ever exist lived in what is today the Sahara desert, according
Humanity Oldest human skull outside Africa identified as 210,000 years oldThe Conversation UK - Anthony Sinclair A 210,000-year-old human skull could provide new evidence that our species left Africa much earlier than previously thought. A new study published in …
12,000 years ago, a boy had his skull squashed into a cone shapeFox News - LiveScienceAncient people in China practiced human head-shaping about 12,000 years ago — meaning they bound some children's maturing skulls, encouraging the heads to grow into elongated ovals — making them the oldest
Apidima 1 Is the Oldest Human Fossil Outside AfricaThe Atlantic - Ed YongA 210,000-year-old skull is the oldest Homo sapiens fossil found outside Africa. In 1978, in a cave called Apidima at the southern end of Greece, a group of anthropologists found a pair of human-like One
Discovery of Raptor-Like Dinosaur Adds a New Wrinkle to the Origin of Birdssmithsonianmag.com - Riley Black In 2003, while excavating the enormous bones of a Supersaurus nicknamed “Jimbo,” Wyoming Dinosaur Center paleontologist Bill Wahl spotted something …
DNA The first Europeans weren’t who you might thinkNational Geographic - Andrew CurryGenetic tests of ancient settlers' remains show that Europe is a melting pot of bloodlines from Africa, the Middle East, and today's Russia. The idea that there were once “pure” populations of ancestral
Unusually large 2-billion-year-old microbe fossils reveal clues about our ancient worldFox News - LiveScienceBELLEVUE, Wash. — Not all fossils are remnants from ferocious dinos. Some of them are teeny-tiny blobs. Scientists recently discovered some of these blobs in the form of 2.5-billion-year-old fossils of
Evidence of brutal 33,000-year-old murder found on fossilised skullsciencefocus.com - Jason Goodyer Forensic analysis of the skull of a man who lived in the Upper Palaeolithic period suggests that he was bludgeoned to death by a stone age killer. The …
Why Prehistoric Venus Figurines Still Mystify Expertsartsy.net - Alexxa Gotthardt Venus of Willendorf, c. 28,000–25,000 B.C. Image by Helmut Fohringer / AFP / Getty Images.Ample hips, voluminous breasts, uncovered pudenda—these are …
Drought 3,400 year old palace emerges from under the Tigris River after drought in IraqTravel + Leisure - Cailey RizzoA palace thought to be more than 3,400 years old emerged from a reservoir in the Kurdistan region of Iraq after a drought drained water levels. "The find is one of the most important archaeological discoveries
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