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“#Ancient hunters stayed in frozen Northern Europe rather than migrating, evidence from Arctic fox bones shows” The team digging in search of bones for analysis. Credit: University of Exeter Ancient hunters stayed in the coldest part of Northern Europe rather than migrating to escape freezing winter conditions, archeologists have found. Evidence from Arctic fox bones…
“#Upside down houses for the dead at Maeshowe” Stenness, Scotland, September 7 June 2019. Credit: Ms. van der Reijden New archaeological research by the University of the Highlands and Islands at the Stone Age tomb, Maeshowe located within the Orkney UNESCO World Heritage Site, has found its side chambers are stylistically upside-down from the main…
“#Paddlewheels found from Lake Champlain steamer sunk in 1819” The two paddlewheels from the second commercial steamboat that sailed Lake Champlain more than two centuries ago have been found on the bottom of the lake, officials said. The paddlewheels from the steamboat Phoenix were discovered last weekend off Colchester Shoal in separate dives by Gary…
“#Video: How ancient ice cores show ‘black swan’ events in history – even pandemics” Relatively young and shallow snow becomes packed into coarse and granular crystals called firn (top: 53 meters deep). Older and deeper snow is compacted further (middle: 1,836 meters). At the bottom of a core (lower: 3,050 meters), rocks, sand and silt…
“#Grass on ash: Uncovering 200,000 year old beds from South Africa” A: Border Cave’s 200,000 year old fossilised grass fragments. B: The profile section of desiccated grass bedding dating to around 43,000 years ago. Both images copyright Lyn Wadley There is a fair amount of archeological evidence that indicates complex behavior among our ancestors. For…
“#’Mammoth central’ found at Mexico airport construction site” Paleontologists work to preserve the skeleton of a mammoth that was discovered at the construction site of Mexico City’s new airport in the Santa Lucia military base, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. The paleontologists are busy digging up and preserving the skeletons of mammoths, camels, horses, and…
“#Drone survey reveals large earthwork at ancestral Wichita site in Kansas” Left: Drone-acquired orthoimage of the site showing major features discussed in the paper. Right: Thermal images mosaic collected from 11:15 pm-12:15 am. (Images from Figure 6 of the study). Credit: by Jesse Casana, Elise Jakoby Laugier, and Austin Chad Hill. A Dartmouth-led study using…
“#A 400-year-old chamois will serve as a model for research on ice mummies” Marco Samadelli, conservation expert at Eurac Research, and Eurac Research anthropologist Alice Paladin with the 400-year-old chamois discovered in Val Aurina, South Tyrol (Italy). The discovery site, at 3200 m MSL, is impassable and can only be reached by a six-hour hike….
“#New dating of Nebra sky disk” The condition of the Nebra sky disk before being transferred to the Landesmuseum Halle an der Saale. Credit: Hildegard Burri-Bayer Until now the Nebra sky disk was deemed to be from the Early Bronze Age and therefore the world’s oldest depiction of the cosmos. Archaeologists from Goethe University Frankfurt…
“#The growth and decline in Rapa Nui’s population is a lesson for our future” The researchers studied the history of Rapa Nui because they were trying to understand what is happening with the planet today. Credit: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 The population on Rapa Nui didn’t crash because the Europeans came. Nor…