How Do Archaeologists Know a Wall Was a Border?
A wall can look like a border from above, but archaeologists test the idea through gates, roads, visibility, construction layers and excavation context.
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A wall can look like a border from above, but archaeologists test the idea through gates, roads, visibility, construction layers and excavation context.
A new study of a 30,000-year-old mandible from Les Rois Cave places the specimen closer to early Homo sapiens than to Neanderthals. The result changes what the famous teeth can—and cannot—tell us about life in the Aurignacian.
A chemical record preserved in their teeth suggests that most of the men in Phaleron’s shackled mass graves grew up in Attica. The finding shifts the debate from foreign invaders to violence within the community itself.
Avi Loeb’s baseball-pitch analogy shows why motion, distance and the observing medium matter when scientists interpret UAP reports.
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