41,500-Year-Old Artifact is World’s Oldest Ornate Jewelry
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Archaeologists in Poland have discovered two fragments of an ancient pendant with dotted patterns and a broken bone awl. Direct…
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Human Activity on Falkland Islands Predates European Arrival by Centuries
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Anthropologists have found the earliest evidence of the human presence in the Falkland Islands. Apparently, as early as the 13th…
Tools Used to Create Clothes 120,000 Years Ago Found by Experts
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Archaeologists have discovered the oldest evidence of the manufacture of clothing in the Moroccan Contrebandiers Cave. They found bone tools…
Scientists Find “New Kind” of Ancient Human
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Paleogeneticists isolated DNA from the remains of a young woman who died in South Sulawesi about 7.3-7.2 thousand years ago and found that her genome contains fewer genes from Denisovans than most modern Australian Aborigines and Papuans. In addition, it belongs to a previously undescribed population of hunter-gatherers, whose ancestors may have come to Sulawesi before the Papuans, Australian, and Tasmanian aborigines.
13,000-Year-Old Find Rewrites History of Human Migration in America
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American archaeologists have discovered the oldest site of hunter-gatherers who inhabited the area of the Great Lakes about 13,000 years…
Machu Picchu is Much Older Than Previously Thought
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American archaeologists carried out radiocarbon dating of 26 human bones and teeth recovered from cave burials at Machu Picchu. The study showed that the ancient city of the Incas remained inhabited until 1530, and the first inhabitants were here no later than 1420, which is almost 20 years earlier than the previous estimate.
Previously Unknown Human Population Found
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Paleogeneticists analyzed sediment samples from the Georgian cave of Satsurbia and found ancient DNA fragments of a wolf, a bison, as well as a person who lived about 25 thousand years ago. The woman whose DNA was studied belonged to a completely unknown human population.
51,000 Years Ago Ancient Humans Carved Chevrons Onto Deer Bones
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Scientists have found an artifact made of the bone of a giant deer, decorated with chevrons. The discovery is no less than 51 thousand years old.
Archaeologists Excavate Ancient Island Settlement Off Croatian Coast Dating Back Six Millennia
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Underwater archaeologists from Croatia have discovered a Neolithic settlement that existed more than six thousand years ago in the region…
Dragon Man; A New Human Species Found by Experts–10 Things you need to know
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Scientists from China and Great Britain published three articles in The Innovation magazine ( 1 , 2 , 3 )…
Cosmic 3D Map Reveals Weird Feature of Our Solar System
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Based on data from the IBEX spacecraft, astrophysicists were able to create a three-dimensional map of the outer boundary of…
Massive Object From “Outside” Our Solar System Heading Our Way—10 Things You Should Know
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Astronomers have discovered a new trans-Neptunian object that may be the largest Oort Cloud object ever discovered. The diameter of…
People in Mesoamerica 33,000 Years Ago Research Finds—10 Reasons Why This is Huge
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The question of when ancient humans first set foot in the Americas remains open to anthropologists. The current long-standing theory…
Ancient Animal Carvings Discovered in Scotland—10 Things You Need to Know
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An amateur archaeologist accidentally saw rock carvings оn the ceiling of the burial chamber of the Neolithic burial mound of…
78,000-Year-Old Burial Site In Africa Rewrites History
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Archaeologists have discovered the oldest human burial in Africa, dating back about 78 thousand years ago. The remains of a…
Artificial Intelligence Helps Uncover Author of Elusive Dead Sea Scrolls
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A team of scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands has used artificial intelligence to figure out the…
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Ancient Circular Pyramids of Guachimontones
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Many pyramids exist in present-day Mexico. The most famous are perhaps the structures located in the ancient city of Teotihuacan,…
Ancient Gadgets – The Instruments that Shaped Humanity
The ability to create and use tools was a defining mark in the evolution of humans. Over time, many of…
Scientists Reconstruct Oldest Modern Human Genome From 45,000-Year-Old Skull
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The genome of a modern human was deciphered, whose skull was found in the Zlatý Kun (“Golden Horse”) cave in…
35,000-Year-Old Tools Found in Australia Are Among Oldest Ever
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Archaeologists have discovered bone tools that are more than 35 thousand years old in Australia. Excavations were held in the…
Astronomy and the Charting of Stars is as Old as our Civilization
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How did the ancients know so much about space and the Solar System? How is it possible that we find…
Oldest Stone Technologies Are Even Older Than Previously Thought
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In parallel with the biological evolution of early humans, they also developed certain cultural technologies that improved their life and…