Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The shift from dense forests to open plains in Africa may have caused our ancient ancestors to change their vocal calls, research involving Durham University anthropologists has found. The researchers studied audible orangutan calls in a South
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – During excavations of a domus north of the house of a Leda and the Swan in Pompeii, archaeologists unearthed 13 ancient terracotta figurines. Credit: Archaeological Park of Pompeii According to experts, the figurines are cult
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating near the village of Offord Cluny in Cambridgeshire have discovered the remains of a man who lived between AD 126–228 during the Roman period and did not originally come from a rural farmstead
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new study from a University of Colorado Boulder researcher conducted with colleagues in Argentina sheds new light on how the introduction of horses in South America led to rapid economic and social transformation in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New research conducted by a team of archaeologists and earth scientists has shed light on the ancient landscapes of Sahul, the Pleistocene (Ice Age) landmass comprising Australia and New Guinea. Bathymetric data showing the Northwest
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An archaeological find in the Huescan Pyrenees allowed researchers to identify for the first time livestock management strategies and feeding practices. Above: Image of the southern slope of Sierra de Tucas (Huesca, Spain). The arrow indicates
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new computational tool detects up to second to third-degree cousins using ancient genomes. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Harvard in the USA have developed
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When did archery arise in the Americas? And what were the effects of this technology on society? These questions have long been debated among anthropologists and archaeologists. But a study led by a University of California, Davis,
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
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
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
