Archaeology

  1. Archaeology

    Stone Age engraving traditions appear on ostrich eggshells

    Fragments indicate symbolic communication on 60,000-year-old water containers.

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  2. Archaeology

    Skeleton of Western man found in ancient Mongolian tomb

    A genetic analysis of a skeleton from an ancient Asian tomb illuminates the spread of Indo-Europeans.

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  3. Archaeology

    Ancient hominids may have been seafarers

    Researchers have discovered hundreds of African-style stone hand axes on Crete, suggesting that sea-going hominids reached the island hundreds of thousands of years ago en route to Europe.

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  4. Anthropology

    Stone Age campers set up separate activity areas

    Hominids displayed advanced organizational thinking almost 800,000 years ago

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  5. Anthropology

    Macaws bred far from tropics during pre-Columbian times

    Colorful birds possibly raised for ceremonial and trade purposes long before Spanish arrival

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  6. Anthropology

    Stone Age twining unraveled

    Plant fibers excavated at a cave in western Asia suggest that people there made twine more than 30,000 years ago.

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  7. Archaeology

    Europe’s oldest stone hand axes emerge in Spain

    Researchers report identifying Europe’s oldest stone hand axes at Spanish sites dating to 900,000 and 760,000 years ago.

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  8. Archaeology

    Exhuming a violent event

    Four graves containing 13 skeletons have given scientists a glimpse of a lethal raid that occurred in central Europe 4,600 years ago.

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  9. Archaeology

    Fire engineers of the Stone Age

    New evidence indicates that people used fires to heat stones in preparation for making cutting instruments at least 72,000 years ago in southern Africa.

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  10. Anthropology

    Maize may have fueled ancient Andean civilization

    A chemical analysis of skeletons from Peru’s Andes Mountains suggests that cultivation of key crop made building a prehistoric civilization possible.

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  11. Archaeology

    Stone Age flutes found in Germany

    Excavations in Germany have unearthed what may be the oldest known musical instruments.

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  12. Archaeology

    Ancient granaries preceded the Agricultural Revolution

    Granaries excavated in Jordan indicate that people stored large quantities of wild cereals by about 11,300 years ago, a practice that led to the cultivation of domesticated plants, a new study suggests.

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