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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meat. Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans. In a paper published in the Yearbook of the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An analysis of obsidian artifacts excavated during the 1960s at two prominent archaeological sites in southwestern Iran suggests that the networks Neolithic people formed in the region as they developed agriculture are larger and more
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study has, for the first time used zinc isotope analysis to determine the position of Neanderthals in the food chain. The findings suggest that Neanderthals were, in fact carnivores. Were Neanderthals carnivores? Scientists
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The Hammer of Thor is frequently mentioned in Norse mythology as a valuable object that belonged to the mighty thunder God Thor. Several Norse myths and legends describe the importance of Thor’s ax-hammer hammer, Mjölnir,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A mural of an Aztec rabbit God of alcohol is not something anyone expected to across inside a church, but that’s exactly what surprised workers experienced in Mexico. A team of restorers commissioned to repair
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Impressive drone footage has revealed an ancient Mesopotamian city known as Lagash challenges long-held ideas about the origin and development of the world’s oldest urban centers in southern Iraq. The collection of large-scale remote sensing
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Two beautiful over a 1,000 years old stone murals from the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) had been unearthed in central China’s Henan Province. The murals are the largest of their kind ever found in the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Belize have found ancient Maya salt workers worked from home. The discovery was made during the excavation of Ta’ab Nuk Na, the largest known Maya salt works in the country, which is submerged in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The relationship between modern humans and neanderthals has been a subject of interest to anyone who wants to know more about our long-gone ancestors. A new study sheds more light on our understanding of the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Under the aegis of the University of Oslo, an international research team has extracted and analyzed plant DNA from the sediments of the Armenian “Aghitu-3” cave. About 40,000 to 25,000 years ago, the cave was
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeological excavations in Syria are currently difficult and dangerous, especially in zones occupied by rebels. The recent finding has already been hailed as a major archaeological discovery and shows that courageous scientists in Syria refuse
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Early farming in Scotland was a less smelly affair than elsewhere, as new research shows they did not need to use manure to fertilize their fields—unlike their counterparts in other parts of the British Isles and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers are working with a group of First Nations Australians in a race against time, and some of the roughest terrain on Earth, to document ancient art in the bark of Australia’s boab trees. Carvings
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Maps of climate in the distant past could provide insight into the future as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase. About 56 million years ago, volcanoes quickly dumped massive amounts of carbon dioxide
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists announce an interesting discovery of a 1,800-year-old bronze medal bearing a Medusa head. In Greek mythology, a monster was also called Gorgo, and eye c0ntact with it would turn one immediately to stone. Ancient
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – To gild sculptures in the late Middle Ages, artists often applied ultra-thin gold foil supported by a silver base layer. For the first time, scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have managed to produce
