Discussions
SEE THE FACE OF YOUR 100,000-YEAR-OLD ANCESTOR
Via: buzz-of-the-orient
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
10 Comments
•
2 months ago
SEE THE FACE OF YOUR 100,000-YEAR-OLD ANCESTOR Israeli team used DNA to design first Denosivan replica BY MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN, JERUSALEM POST, SEPTEMBER 20, 2019...
Drought exposes long-submerged 'Spanish Stonehenge' monument
Via: perrie-halpern
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
8 Comments
•
2 months ago
By Denise Chow A 7,000-year-old monument dubbed “Spanish Stonehenge” has been exposed for the first time in 50 years, after drought conditions in western Spain dropped water levels in a...
Ancient Siberia was home to previously unknown humans, say scientists
Via: kavika
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
28 Comments
•
2 months ago
DNA analysis reveals hardy group genetically distinct from Eurasians and East Asians Nicola Davis @NicolaKSDavis Wed 5 Jun 2019 13.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 5 Jun...
Denying Jerusalem's Jewish History Despite Archaeological Evidence
Via: buzz-of-the-orient
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
2 Comments
•
2 months ago
Denying Jerusalem's Jewish History Despite Archaeological Evidence by Lawrence A. Franklin , Gatestone Institute, September 26, 2019 The City of David Foundation recently...
12 curious truths about Stonehenge
Via: buzz-of-the-orient
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
15 Comments
•
5 months ago
12 curious truths about Stonehenge The world's most famous ring of standing stones has been studied for centuries, yet we learn something new about it all the time. MELISSA BREYER,...
Greek find called earliest sign of our species out of Africa
Via: freefaller
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
3 Comments
•
5 months ago
NEW YORK — Scientists say they've identified the earliest known sign of our species outside Africa. It's a chunk of skull recovered from a cave in southern Greece. The fossil's estimated age is...
Closest-known ancestor of today’s Native Americans found in Siberia
Via: kavika
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
30 Comments
•
6 months ago
Indigenous Americans, who include Alaska Natives, Canadian First Nations, and Native Americans, descend from humans who crossed an ancient land bridge connecting Siberia in Russia to Alaska tens...
Ancient star explosions could have led early humans to walk upright
Via: perrie-halpern
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
46 Comments
•
6 months ago
More than six million years have passed since early humans first walked upright, and it’s still unclear exactly why we made the switch from four legs to two. One popular theory holds that the...
If reason exists without deliberation, it cannot be uniquely human
Via: bob-nelson
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
1 Comments
•
7 months ago
Philosophers and cognitive scientists today generally comprehend the domain of reason as a certain power of making inferences, confined to the thoughts and actions of human beings alone. Like...
Oldest human footprint found in the Americas confirmed in Chile: researcher
Via: kavika
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
16 Comments
•
7 months ago
An ancient footprint is pictured, having formed cracks due to desiccation after being extracted from its original site, in Osorno, Chile sometime in April 2019. Universidad Austral de Chile,...
Fossil of 85-foot blue whale is largest ever discovered
Via: larry-hampton
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
9 Comments
•
7 months ago
The blue whale is not only the largest animal alive today, it is the largest one that has ever lived. Now, analysis of a fossil found on the shore of an Italian lake hints at when, and perhaps...
What remains of Bears Ears
Via: 1stwarrior
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
38 Comments
•
8 months ago
For the last 13,000 years, humans have inhabited this part of the southwest. They carved arrowheads from stone and hunted giant sloths. They learned to farm corn and created communities on the...
Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right – after 2,469 years
Via: bob-nelson
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
6 Comments
•
9 months ago
In the fifth century BC , the Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt and wrote of unusual river boats on the Nile. Twenty-three lines of his Historia , the ancient world’s first great...
Oldest cave art yet? Ancient paintings found in Borneo
Via: perrie-halpern
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
54 Comments
•
last year
Mulberry-colored hand stencils superimposed over older reddish-orange hand stencils. The two styles are separated by at least 20,000 years. Kinez Riza By Maggie Fox The oldest...
Archaeologists Find Pre-Clovis Projectile Points in Texas
Via: dignitatem-societatis
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
30 Comments
•
last year
At the Gault archaeological site in central Texas, archaeologists have unearthed a projectile point technology never previously seen in North America, which they date to be 16,000-20,000 years...
Flatbread Baked 14,400 Years Ago Found in Jordan
Via: dignitatem-societatis
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
7 Comments
•
last year
Archaeologists from the Universities of Copenhagen and Cambridge, and University College London have unearthed the charred remains of a flatbread baked by Natufian hunter-gatherers 14,400 years...
Zhao Kangmin: The man who 'discovered China's terracotta army (Considered to be the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century)
Via: kavika
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
19 Comments
•
last year
Zhao Kangmin: The man who 'discovered' China's terracotta army By Kevin Ponniah BBC New Image copyright GETTY IMAGES When archaeologist Zhao Kangmin picked up the phone in...
Part 2: Prehistoric Human Migrations, Language Groups, Jim Thorpe
By: dave-2693993
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
60 Comments
•
last year
Part 1 has it's own life and is far from complete. However, there is a second path to follow and worth it's own investigation. Interestingly enough, the geologic "black mat" that covers the last...
Prehistoric Human Migrations, Language Groups, Jim Thorpe
By: dave-2693993
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
36 Comments
•
last year
Recently a discussion about the new Jim Thorpe movie and the level of participation from across a spectrum of Native American contributors triggered some curiosity. The timing of this discussion...
Largest known child sacrifice site discovered in Peru
Via: jasper2529
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
6 Comments
•
last year
Source Archaeologists in northern Peru say they have found evidence of what could be the world’s largest single case of child sacrifice. The burial site, known as Las Llamas, contains...
Laser Scans Reveal Maya "Megalopolis" Below Guatemalan Jungle
Via: dignitatem-societatis
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
37 Comments
•
last year
From National Geographic A vast, interconnected network of ancient cities was home to millions more people than previously thought. In what’s being hailed as a “major breakthrough” in Maya...
Archaeologists Discover Where Julius Caesar Landed in Britain ... Green Rules apply
Via: bob-nelson
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
6 Comments
•
2 years ago
A large camp along Pegwell Bay is the likely spot where 20,000 Romans landed in 54 B.C. Some of the Roman defenses at Pegwell Bay University of Leicester Between 58 and 50 B.C., Julius...
Was this ancient person from China the offspring of modern humans and Neandertals?
Via: kavika
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
18 Comments
•
2 years ago
When scientists found a 40,000 year-old skeleton in China in 2003, they thought they had discovered the offspring of a Neandertal and a modern human . But ancient DNA now reveals that the...
A Native and a Zionist By Ryan Bellerose
Via: kpr37
•
Anthropology & Archeology
•
48 Comments
•
2 years ago
I am a Métis from Northern Alberta. My father, Mervin Bellerose, co-authored the Métis Settlements Act of 1989, which was passed by the Alberta legislature in 1990 and cemented our land rights. I...
Loading...
Loading...