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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent archaeogenetic studies have shown that human migrations and individual mobility played a bigger role in prehistory than previously anticipated. With the movement of people, also culture, technical know-how, language and social practices were often
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 300,000-year-old hunting weapon has shone a new light on early humans as woodworking masters, according to a new study. State-of-the-art analysis of a double-pointed wooden throwing stick, found in Schöningen in Germany three decades
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Prehistorians used advanced technology and discovered that early humans in the Hula Valley invested in systematic procurement of raw materials hundreds of thousands of years ago – much earlier than previously assumed. Geography, geology, Lower
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers have identified marks carved intentionally on bay trees some five or ten years before the Neolithic settlement of La Draga was built in Banyoles 7,200 years ago. The discovery confirms the presence of human
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Celtiberian tribes of mixed Iberian and Celtic origin inhabited an area in the central-northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the final centuries B.C. In the last decade, archaeologists have made many interesting finds that provide a more
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – This summer, archaeologists have worked hard at the Vernon Parish site in the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana, United States. While digging through the first, the goal of the excavation has been to unearth and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Benjamin Franklin may be best known as the creator of bifocals and the lightning rod, but a group of University of Notre Dame researchers suggest he should also be known for his innovative ways of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Five treasure finds, including three hoards and two grave groups of Bronze Age and Roman date, were declared treasure on Tuesday 11th July 2023 by Area Coroner for South Wales Central, Patricia Morgan. A Bronze Age
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A large, complex karst cave known as the Te’omim Cave located in the Jerusalem Hills has been excavated since 2009 by a team of archaeologists from Bar-Ilan University and the Cave Research Center at the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A metal detectorist has discovered a part of a Bronze Age twisted gold torc in a field near Mistley, on the River Stour in Essex, UK. The gold torc has been examined by experts and
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Who knows whom? Who has which desires and needs? The answers to these questions are worth a lot of money for the advertising industry today. With the help of immense amounts of data as well
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In Norse mythology, God Odin always has his two raven companions, Hugin (Huginn) and Munin (Munnin), on his shoulders. As explained earlier on AncientPages, “Hugin represents ‘memory,’ while Munin represents ‘thought.’ Norse God Odin with his
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – As previously reported on Ancient Pages, the discovery of a mysterious Viking grave in the Swedish Mountains last year was hailed as one of the country’s greatest and most exciting archaeological finds. At the time
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In a new study, researchers and members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area are the first to publish evidence of wealth-driven patterns in maternal investment among ancient populations. Woman measuring
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Kushan Empire in Central Asia was one of the most influential states of the ancient world. A research team at the University of Cologne’s Department of Linguistics has now deciphered a writing system that
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The language of ancient Egypt has no known word for ‘art’. Its civilization is often perceived as having been extremely formal in its creative expression, the works completed by the painters of its funerary chapels
