Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While excavating on excavation the banks of the Brazos River in southeastern Texas, archaeologists have uncovered more than 10,000 artifacts from Washington-on-the-Brazos, a town remembered as the “Birthplace of Texas,” where the Texas Declaration of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered 16 new archaeological sites while investigating a large area in Jalapão, in the eastern part of the state of Tocantins, Brazil. Mountains in Jalapão, the state of Tocantins, Brazil. Credit: Adobe Stock
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A global team of researchers, spearheaded by Chinese scientists, has discovered that East Asian hominins were already using sophisticated stone tool technology around 1.1 million years ago. Retouched tool patterns in the CJW assemblage. (A–E) Slender
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Approximately 7,500 years ago, the last communities of hunter-gatherers in Western Europe came into contact with incoming Neolithic farmers. Over time, these hunter-gatherer populations were slowly replaced and absorbed by the farming communities. This period
Jan Bartek – Ancientpages.com – The question of when the genus Homo first migrated from Africa to Europe has been a subject of ongoing research. Previously, it was believed that the earliest human settlements in Europe were in Atapuerca, Spain,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – According to recent research, the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao), which produces beans used for products like chocolate, liquor, and cocoa butter, likely originated from the Amazon basin, and reached other parts of South and Central
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Using a ‘walkover survey,’ a small team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester Archaeological Services surveyed and recorded visible archaeological remains of the Eastern Sovereign Base Area (ESBA) at Dhekelia (ESBA) on the island’s
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Trevor Penny, an amateur fisherman from Oxfordshire, UK, had quite the surprise when he pulled up a rusty metal object from the River Cherwell using a magnet. He recognized it as an old sword, but
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Historical and ethnographic sources have long highlighted the importance of tobacco in Mesoamerica, but finding actual physical evidence of this plant in archaeological digs has been a rare occurrence. However, recent findings at Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala, dating
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Polish archaeologists operating in Oman have unearthed evidence of extensive copper ore processing activities, along with stone tools and remnants of copper smelting furnaces. Topographer at work (Credit: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology UW/ Agnieszka
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – For the past two years, archaeologists have excavated in the Old Town of Kalmar, Sweden. Recently, at a press conference held at Kalmar Castle, archaeologists from the National Historical Museums of Sweden unveiled their remarkable
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Since the early Holocene period, people in northern Europe have enjoyed hazelnuts, a powerful and easy-to-obtain energy source. Now, archaeologists can recreate ancient woodlands with the hazelnuts’ help. An archaeologist takes samples of pollen found
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A medieval pilgrim’s badge depicting a basilisk dragon in a circle enclosed was found in Wólka Nieliska, Zamość district, in southeastern Poland. Image credit: Lublin Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments/ Facebook Also referred to as the “pilgrim’s
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – During an excavation in Egypt’s Minya Governorate, archaeologists discovered a massive statue of Pharaoh Ramesses II, who reigned during the 19th Dynasty of Egypt (1292–1190 B.C.). Today, Ramesses II is widely acknowledged as one of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The discovery of an eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe, adorned with Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions, is truly extraordinary. The Verona astrolabe. Citation: Nuncius 39, 1 (2024) ; 10.1163/18253911-bja10095. Image source This ancient astronomical tool is among the oldest
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This modest chunk of obsidian, no more than 5 centimeters in length, was probably found on a rough patch of ranchland in the Texas panhandle. According to Matthew Boulanger, anthropologist and director of the Archeology
