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Read More »Bronze Age Burial Mound Excavated in Kazakhstan
AINABULAK, KAZAKHSTAN—According to a Live Science report, excavation of a Bronze Age burial mound in eastern Kazakhstan has yielded the remains of a girl between the ages of 12 and 15 at the time of death. Her body was surrounded by some 180 ankle bones from sheep or cattle, three …
Read More »Well-Preserved Roman Swords Found Near the Dead Sea
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—BBC News reports that a project to photograph an inscription on a stalactite in a cave overlooking the Dead Sea has led to the discovery of three Roman long swords, or spatha, and one shorter ring-pommel sword. Asaf Gayer of Ariel University first spotted a Roman pilum, or javelin, …
Read More »NUOVO STUDIO SULLA SEPOLTURA NEANDERTHALIANA DELLA GROTTA DI SHANIDAR, IRAQ
Per leggere questo articolo occorrono 2 minuti Ha fatto enormemente scalpore quando, a febbraio 2020, è stato pubblicato uno studio sulla rivista Antiquity in cui sono stati studiati resti ossei e pollini di una sepoltura neanderthaliana identificata nella Grotta di Shanidar, tra gli anni 1957 e il 1961 dall’archeologo americano …
Read More »Neolithic Cursus Excavated in Scotland
ISLE OF ARRAN, SCOTLAND—A massive Neolithic monument is being excavated at Drumadoon, on the southwest coast of the Isle of Arran, according to a report in The Guardian. The monument is of a type called a cursus, a vast rectangular enclosure dating to between 4000 and 3000 B.C. that is …
Read More »Archaeologists Uncover Upper Paleolithic Proto-Writing System
In at least 400 European caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, Upper Paleolithic humans drew, painted and engraved non-figurative signs from at least 42,000 years ago and figurative images — notably animals – from at least 37,000 years ago. Since their discovery 150 years ago, the purpose or meaning …
Read More »Hoard of Silver Coins from Maccabean Revolt Found in Israel
The hoard was in a wooden box and contained 15 silver tetradrachma coins from the reign of Antiochos IV Epiphanes, a Hellenistic king who ruled the Seleucid Empire — which included Judea — from 175 BCE until 164 BCE. The 2,200-year-old silver tetradrachma coins found in Israel. Image credit: Shai …
Read More »15,700-Year-Old Projectile Points Found in Idaho
Archaeologists have unearthed an assemblage of 14 stemmed projectile points at the Cooper’s Ferry site, located on a terrace of the lower Salmon River of western Idaho, the United States. These stemmed points are several thousand years older than Clovis fluted points and are 2,300 years older than stemmed points …
Read More »320,000-Year-Old Cutmarked Bones Provide Evidence for Exploitation of Bear Skins
Researchers from the University of Tübingen and elsewhere have unearthed the cutmarked bones of cave bears at the Middle Pleistocene site of Schöningen in Lower Saxony, Germany. Bear skins have high insulating properties and might have played a role in the adaptations of Middle Pleistocene hominins, such as Homo heidelbergensis …
Read More »Pottery Vessels Reveal Connections between Prehistoric European Hunter-Gatherer Communities
Archaeologists have analyzed the remains of 1,226 pottery vessels from 156 hunter-gatherer sites across nine countries in Northern and Eastern Europe. Their findings suggest that pottery-making spread rapidly westwards from 5,900 BCE onwards and took only 300-400 years to advance over 3,000 km, equivalent to 250 km in a single …
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