AncientPages.com – Aztec and Maya civilizations are household names – but it’s the Olmecs who are the ‘mother culture’ of ancient Mesoamerica. Jade Olmec warriors mask from Tabasco (Mexico). Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels (Belgium). Credit: Michel Wal –
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The El Gigante rockshelter in western Honduras is among only a handful of archaeological sites in the Americas that contain well-preserved botanical remains spanning the last 11,000 years. Considered one of the most important archaeological
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and now there’s new evidence they did so long before scientists previously thought.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather. A
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 2,000-year-old fresco discovered on the wall of a house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii depicts what could be described as a distant ancestor of modern Italian pizza! Italy’s Culture Ministry said in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers examined the Longquan celadon (high-quality glazed ceramic pottery) industry, located in Zhejiang province in China, which flourished mainly between the Southern Song and early Ming dynasties. Image credit: Durham University The products of this
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A large Roman marble head has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Nemi in the Lazio region of Italy 30 km (19 mi) south of Rome, Italy. The discovery is fascinating because there is
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A recent expedition by an archaeology team from the Universities of Auckland and Canterbury to Enderby in the Auckland Island archipelago plans to answer remaining questions about Maori voyaging and life on the island dating
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The new discovery of ancient stone artifacts at an underwater spring off the Western Australia Pilbara coast has confirmed the location is a submerged archaeological site where more ancient Aboriginal artifacts are likely hidden beneath
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have identified the oldest decisive evidence of humans’ close evolutionary relatives butchering and likely eating one another. View of the hominin tibia and magnified area that shows cut
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An airborne laser scanning study has led to the surprising discovery of an ancient, unknown Maya city hidden deep in the jungle in the Yucatán Peninsula. Mexico’s National Institute for Anthropology and History (INAH) has
Conny Waters – AncientPages – People have long believed in the existence of vampires. Ancient people were convinced these scary blood-sucking creatures were extremely dangerous. Accounts of vampires occur in mythology and folklore worldwide, and there are also some historical
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Tormod Fjeld was hiking with his family in the Moss area when they stopped for a rest break near a boulder, Viken County Municipality. Fjeld is no stranger to looking for past traces, which is
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves. The research has also led to fresh insights about spectacular patterns found in plants. The research published in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Markings on a cave wall in France are the oldest known engravings made by Neanderthals, according to a study published June 21, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jean-Claude Marquet of the University
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Dutch archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable ancient structure that has been nicknamed the Stonehenge of the Netherlands”. Scientists say the intriguing 4,000-year-old structure includes a burial mound that served as a solar calendar. Inside the
