Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Evolutionary biologists have solved a major mammal skull shape evolution puzzle. The results of this interesting study shed some light on the evolution of the human face as well. Horses have developed long faces simply
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In the forest steppe northwest of the Black Sea—today the territory of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine—mega-sites of the Trypillia societies emerged about 6,000 years ago on areas of up to 320 hectares in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – As the world faces the challenges of present-day climate change, scientific inquiry is, among other objectives, exploring how human societies navigate environmental variations at large. Reconstruction of a Bronze Age house near Forsand in south-west Norway.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For more than 50 years, dental anthropologists have studied variation in the shape of human teeth to study the patterns of migration that people took as they populated the world. The last major continental migration
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – During previous excavations, archaeologists have found plenty of evidence that Babylonians and Sumerians were skilled astronomers. Sumerian cuneiform tablets confirm that knowledge of the Sumerians was not limited only to the knowledge of our solar
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Researchers have described a Japanese mosasaur the size of a great white shark that terrorized Pacific seas 72 million years ago. A mosasaur analyzed by University of Cincinnati paleontologist Takuya Konishi had a dorsal
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – There may still be vanished human species unknown to scientists. A research team has discovered an unusual 300,000-year-old jawbone with an unexpected combination of archaic and modern human features. A computer reconstruction of the skull
AncientPages. com – Unique, prehistoric rock art drawings have been discovered in the Andriamamelo Cave in western Madagascar. I was part of a team that discovered and described these ancient treasures. They’re the first truly pictorial art, depicting images of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists working within the Colosseum Archaeological Park’s research project, have unearthed some rooms of a luxurious domus dated to the late Republican age. Image credit: Ministry of Culture The discovery was made in close vicinity of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – One of the hottest debates in archaeology is how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally argued that people walked through an ice-free corridor that briefly opened between ice sheets an
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Polish archaeologists investigated the Castle Rock Pueblo settlement complex in Colorado and made a discovery that exceeded their “wildest expectations.” Archaeologists exploring in Colorado discovered ancient rock carvings belonging to the Pueblo people. Credit: Jagiellonian
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The high-altitude hero of the Himalayas, yak are among the few large animals that can survive the extremely cold, harsh and oxygen-poor conditions of the Tibetan Plateau. In the mountainous regions of Asia, yak and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Widespread caries and toothache – but also some dental work and filing of front teeth. Viking Age teeth from Varnhem bear witness to surprisingly advanced dentistry. This has been shown in a study carried out
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new research paper finds that genetic material from Neanderthal ancestors may have contributed to the propensity of some people today to be “early risers,” the sort of people who are more comfortable getting up
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Last year, archaeologists excavating near Northampton, UK, made an extraordinary discovery. The research team unearthed a magnificent 1,300-year-old necklace made up of at least 30 pendants and beads made of Roman coins, gold, garnets, glass,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists have uncovered parts of a Jurassic sea creature in a quarry near Peterborough, United Kingdom. Fossil hunter Jamie Jordan unearthed as many as 20 sections of vertebrae belonging to an ichthyosaur called Ophthalmosaurus. Opthalmosaurus
