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AncientPages.com - In many popular accounts of human prehistory, civilization emerged in a linear fashion. Our ancestors started as Paleolithic hunter-gatherers living in small, nomadic and egalitarian bands.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - On December 21, 2021, Pawel Bednarski made the discovery of a lifetime using a metal detector. It was actually a bit of a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The use of fire can tell us a lot about human evolution. Archaeologist Femke Reidsma has developed a more accurate technique to identify
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Stone Age burial site was carried out in Majoonsuo, located in the municipality of Outokumpu in Eastern Finland. This exceptional excavation produced
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A century on, the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb remains one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. Dr. Karin Sowada,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Americas were the last continent to be inhabited by humans. An increasing body of archaeological and genomic evidence has hinted to a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The use of ancient DNA, including samples of human remains around 45,000 years old, has shed light on a previously unknown aspect of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A beautiful and exceptionally rare golden artifact has been found near Blairdrummond in Scotland. Experts estimate the pommel is about 1,300-year-old, and most
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new paper proposes that Homo sapiens may have been responsible for the extinction of Neanderthals not by violence, but through sex instead.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Late Roman-era rooms and earthen offering vessels have been discovered by archeologists in southern Türkiye (Turkey) amid ongoing excavations of the ancient city
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) led by the archeologist José Huchim Herrera, unearthed an elaborate stele with reliefs
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The use of LIDAR, (light detection and ranging) has helped to uncover more secrets of Calakmul, an enormous ancient Maya city. As a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An Israel Antiquities Authority's archaeological team was sent to 'Ein Qiniyye, a Druze village in the southern foothills of Mount Hermon, on the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavations in the İnkaya Cave revealed a workshop that provides a valuable information on human migrations in the northwestern province of Çanakkale during
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The changing shape of the frontal sinuses is helping to reveal more about how modern humans, and our ancient relatives, evolved. An international
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – International researchers, including Senckenberg's Dr. Adrienne Jochum, have discovered a new species of land snail in an approximately 99-million-year-old piece of amber.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A farmer found a beautiful ancient golden belt near Opava in the Czech Republic. The belt was unearthed when the farmer was harvesting
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When the bell begins to toll, Lord, have mercy on the soul.’ - wrote The Venerable Bede (672-735). In days past, when good
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Cave paintings from the Lascaux complex in France to Ubirr in Australia have one characteristic in common—they depict hunters and their prey. Very
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It does not happen very often that archeologists find Viking swords. Swords were extremely important to ancient Vikings, but these weapons were expensive
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers studying the teeth of an elderly woman who lived 2,000 years ago have charted her diet from infancy to just before her
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Historians have believed extensive herring trade started around the year 1200 AD, later controlled by the Hanseatic League. Now, a new study shows
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists based in Germany have examined a 17th-century child mummy, using cutting-edge science alongside historical records to shed new light on Renaissance childhood.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - We can thank the pyramids of Giza for roads. A vital part of our built environment, they've been a staple of human existence
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Marine archaeologists from Vrak - Museum of Wreck have found the wreck of the naval vessel Äpplet, Vasa's sister ship. The ship was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers at the University of Gothenburg has shown that the Skaftö wreck had probably taken on cargo in Gdansk in Poland and was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A joint study by TAU and the Hebrew University, involving 20 researchers from different countries and disciplines, has accurately dated 21 destruction layers
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first genetic data from Paleolithic human individuals in the U.K.—the oldest human DNA obtained from the British Isles so far—indicates the presence
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - To most children finding something unusual and unexpected is a joy, but discovering a precious, rare ancient artifact must be a memory for
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