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“#Boxgrove: How we found Europe’s oldest bone tools, and what we learned about their makers” Tool made out of horse bone. Credit: UCL Institute of Archaeology, Author provided Boxgrove in Sussex, England, is an iconic, old stone age site. This is where the oldest human remains in Britain have been discovered—fossils of Homo heidelbergensis. Part…
“#From cave art to climate chaos: How a new carbon dating timeline is changing our view of history” Credit: Shutterstock Geological and archeological records offer important insights into what seems to be an increasingly uncertain future. The better we understand what conditions Earth has already experienced, the better we can predict (and potentially prevent) future…
“#Got your bag? The critical place of mobile containers in human evolution” Credit: Shutterstock Today, bags are everywhere—from cheap canvas ones at the supermarket to designer handbags costing up to US$2,000,000. But archeological evidence shows we have been using mobile containers—bags and other carrying devices—for tens of thousands of years. Before sedentary life took root…
“#The oldest known cremation in the near east dates to 7000 BC” Picture of bones in situ: A. Segment of axial skeleton: ribs and vertebrae exposed in the middle of the structure. B. Right coxal in situ; preserved almost complete by a piece of collapsed mud wall (see Fig 2D). C. Four right pedal proximal…
“#Researchers unlock secrets of the past with new international carbon dating standard” Credit: University of Sheffield Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientists improved the technique for assessing the age of historical objects. The team of researchers at the Universities of Sheffield, Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow, Oxford,…
“#Australian Indigenous banana cultivation found to go back over 2,000 years” Ancient banana cultivation site at Wagadagam, Mabuyag Islan, Torres Strait Credit: ANU Archaeologists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found the earliest evidence of Indigenous communities cultivating bananas in Australia. The evidence of cultivation and plant management dates back 2,145 years and was…
“#Ancient crested penguin fossil found in New Zealand” Eudyptes atatu sp. nov. showing key diagnostic features. Holotype specimen NMNZ S.046318 showing (a) right lateral view of skull and block with (c) mandible and (d) postcranial elements. (b) Right lateral view of Snares crested penguin Eudyptes robustus NMNZ OR.023746 for comparison. Referred material of E. atatu…
“#Ancient North American reptiles lived on an island archipelago in South Wales” A map of the Bristol channel (above), outlining the modern channel and showing where the ancient ‘palaeo-islands’ would have existed. A food web (below) displaying all of the recognised reptilian animals from Ruthin with plants and insects at the base. Insects are eaten…
“#New species of dinosaur discovered on Isle of Wight” Artists impression of the dinosaur’s final moments. Credit: Trudie Wilson A new study by Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton suggests four bones recently found on the Isle of Wight belong to new species of theropod dinosaur, the group that includes Tyrannosaurus rex and modern-day birds….
“#Eating out was a very social matter for early humans” A small knapping scatter relating to the reshaping of a biface, preserving the imprint of an early human knee in the shards of waste flint, under excavation in 1989 Credit: UCL Institute of Archaeology A half-a-million-year-old internationally significant archeological site in Sussex, England, offers unprecedented…