#3,400-year-old ‘lost’ city re-emerges from Tigris River

#3,400-year-old ‘lost’ city re-emerges from Tigris River

“3,400-year-old ‘lost’ city re-emerges from Tigris River” The “Lost City of Atlantis” isn’t real, but this one was. An international group of archaeologists has unearthed a 3,400-year-old city under the Tigris River in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, they shared this week. The Bronze Age village — erected sometime between 1475 BC and 1275 BC…

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#Inside US’s oldest skull surgery 3,000 years ago

#Inside US’s oldest skull surgery 3,000 years ago

“Inside US’s oldest skull surgery 3,000 years ago” The oldest skull surgery in North America dates back a staggering 3,000 years, new research has found. Analysis of a prehistoric man’s skull found a hole in his forehead, according to bioarchaeologist Diana Simpson from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Data suggests that someone scraped the…

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#150,000-year-old beads are world’s oldest form of jewelry

#150,000-year-old beads are world’s oldest form of jewelry

“#150,000-year-old beads are world’s oldest form of jewelry” Even the earliest Homo sapiens adored their precious gemstones. Archaeologists digging in the Bizmoune Cave in southwest Morocco found the oldest set of jewelry known to man. Science Advances reported that excavators discovered 33 shell beads dated between 142,000 and 150,000 years old. While the beads themselves were…

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#Early Native Americans ‘undervalued’ as ‘sophisticated’ engineers

#Early Native Americans ‘undervalued’ as ‘sophisticated’ engineers

“#Early Native Americans ‘undervalued’ as ‘sophisticated’ engineers” A few millennia later, there is still much to learn about remarkably advanced early civilizations, particularly the indigenous peoples of North America. A new study sheds light on the “sophisticated” engineering work by early Native Americans at the World Heritage Site at Poverty Point in northern Louisiana. Though…

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#Australian researchers discover country’s largest flying reptile

#Australian researchers discover country’s largest flying reptile

“#Australian researchers discover country’s largest flying reptile” A team of Australian researchers has discovered the country’s largest flying reptile.  The fearsome, long-necked pterosaur had a wingspan measuring seven meters in length and what the team calls a “spear mouth.” According to a paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Thapunngaka shawi was located at the geological Toolebuc Formation near Richmond in North West…

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#Prehistoric cave paintings show Neanderthals were artists

#Prehistoric cave paintings show Neanderthals were artists

“#Prehistoric cave paintings show Neanderthals were artists” ARDALES, Spain, Aug 8 – Neanderthals may have been closer to our species of prehistoric modern human than previously believed after cave paintings found in Spain proved they had a fondness for creating art, one of the authors of a new scientific report said on Sunday. Red ochre pigment discovered on stalagmites in the Caves of Ardales, near Malaga…

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#Cave painters may have been inspired by hallucinations

#Cave painters may have been inspired by hallucinations

“#Cave painters may have been inspired by hallucinations” Caves were like deadly Dutch ovens of divine inspiration. Israeli scientists may have finally discovered the source of ancient cave painters’ creativity — hallucinations caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain. “We showed that hypoxia … might indeed be a plausible trigger for the creation…

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