Archeology

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Big Think
Found: 200,000-year-old cave art made by children3 min read · Sep 25th · In the perilous mountains of Tibet, archaeologists unearthed ancient hand and footprints that seem to be the creative work of children.
Big Think
Human migration: North America settled as early as 26,000 years ago3 min read · Sep 25th · Fossilized footprints found at an excavation site in southwest New Mexico prove human migration onto the continent much earlier than thought.
Big Think
Ancient woman’s DNA provides evidence of mysterious lost Toalean culture4 min read · Sep 25th · Who were the Toaleans? When did they arrive and how widespread were they? New DNA findings show how little we know about early humans.
NPR
An Ancient Tablet, Stolen Then Acquired By Hobby Lobby, Will Be Returned To Iraq2 min read · Sep 22nd · Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, it was looted from Iraq and made its way through several hands before Hobby Lobby purchased it for the Museum of the Bible in 2014.
history
Live Science
Ancient bones reveal previously unknown Japanese ancestors4 min read · Sep 20th · They help confirm a long-standing theory about the genetic origins of modern-day Japanese populations.
history
The Washington Post
On a trek for Arctic dinosaur footprints in Alaska preserveJul 25th · Three scientists spent eight days searching for such fossils to reconstruct the extinct creatures’ ecosystem. They hope their research could shed light on climate change, too.
knowablemagazine.org
How Do We Know What Ancient People Ate? Their Dirty Dishes.~11 min read · Jul 24th · New scientific techniques have turned ancient food into less of a mystery.
nature
How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs~13 min read · Jun 22nd · Well before people domesticated crops, they were grinding grains for hearty stews and other starchy dishes.
food
science
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The clues from Göbekli Tepe reveal that ancient humans relied on grains much earlier than was previously thought — even before there is evidence that these plants were domesticated. And Dietrich’s work is part of a growing movement to take a closer look at the role that grains and other starches had in the diet of people in the past.
There is evidence that people in the region have been eating bulgur for at least 4,000 years4. By boiling barley or wheat and then drying it for storage and quick rehydration later, “you could process the harvest in bulk and take advantage of the hot sun”, Valamoti says. “Then you can use it throughout the year. It was the fast food of the past.”
Big Think
Dinosaurs were doomed even before the asteroid4 min read · Jul 15th · Climate and ecological changes as well as disruption to the food chain were already killing off the dinosaurs.
ScienceDaily
New method could reveal what genes we might have inherited from Neanderthals3 min read · Jun 22nd · Using neural networks, researchers have developed a new method to search the human genome for beneficial mutations from Neanderthals and other archaic humans. These humans are known to have interbred…
palladiummag.com
Why Civilization Is Older Than We Thought20+ min read · May 19th · New discoveries are adding millennia to our past. The implications should change our future.
history
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Rather than small bands of hundreds of people, societies in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands seem to best fit our extended phenotype, at least once domesticated.
The environment of evolutionary adaptation for Homo sapiens as we now know ourselves wasn’t the wild savannah; rather, it was complex society all along.
The discovery of Sumerian cities, now considered to be the very beginning of recorded history, was itself an archaeological surprise.
Ars Technica
Archaeologists recreated three common kinds of Paleolithic cave lighting7 min read · Jun 19th · Experiments could enhance our understanding of the origin of prehistoric art in caves
science
nature
A 51,000-year-old engraved bone reveals Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic behaviourJul 9th · The authors report an incised giant deer phalanx (toe bone), directly radiocarbon dated to at least 51,000 years old. The age and context of the object suggests that it was engraved by Neanderthals.
Big Think
Fossilized dinosaur poop contains new insect species6 min read · Jul 8th · Discovering fossilized insects is difficult, but a new find suggests a unique place to look.
Curiosity
This Dino Was Fossilized Incubating Its Eggs1 min read · Jun 30th · Learn about how kids as young as 8 show a gender gap when it comes to negotiating; how speaking another language can change your personality; and what paleontologists can learn […]
The Guardian
Whatever Johnson says, we can’t defeat Covid with ‘personal responsibility’ alone4 min read · Jul 6th · Making measures such as mask-wearing an individual choice sends a message that they’re no longer important, says Stephen Reicher, a member of the Sage subcommittee advising on behavioural science
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