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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An extended period of turmoil in the prehistoric Maya city of Mayapan, in the Yucatan region of Mexico, was marked by population declines,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists has unearthed bones of reindeer and woolly mammoth in the limestone cave hidden beneath Pembroke Castle. Wogan Cavern is
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Fossil tooth analysis by Southern Cross University geochemist Dr. Renaud Joannes-Boyau has played a central role in an international collaboration that has properly
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient bone needles estimated to be 8,200 years old have been unearthed during excavations conducted in the Yeşilova and Yassıtepe mounds of western Turkey's Izmir.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A perfectly preserved wooden sculpture was recently discovered at the Chan Chan archaeological complex in northern Peru. Wooden sculpture depicting a litter bearer of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An almost intact skeleton of a young warrior has been unearthed during archaeological excavations in the vicinity of Pasohlávky in the Brno-Country District
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Winemaking practices in coastal Italy during the Roman period involved using native grapes for making wine in jars waterproofed with imported tar pitch,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - With some 7,000 islands and cays and a 7,000-year history of human habitation, the Caribbean Sea is practically synonymous with maritime travel. The
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Were the bones of fallen Battle of Waterloo soldiers sold as fertilizer? As very few human remains have been found from what was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavation is still going on at Tilaurakot, Kapilvastu of southern Nepal. According to archaeologists involved in the excavation, the recent discovery of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Democracy is widely understood to have arisen in the Mediterranean world about 2,500 years ago before spreading through cultural contact to other parts
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Chickens are the world’s most numerous domestic animal. In order to understand when, where, and how they first became associated with human societies,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The spread of the grain from East Asia to Central Europe has been reconstructed by researchers at Kiel University. People were already living
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Countless ships have gone under since man took to the water. Many shipwrecks have never been found and their precise location has since been lost
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A burial monument from the late Hellenistic period, which is a first for Istanbul, has been unearthed during the excavations in the Haydarpasa
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A cave known as Cueva de Ardales or the so-called Trinidad Grund and located in southern Spain was used by ancient humans as
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Current global climatic warming is having, and will continue to have, widespread consequences for human history, in the same way, that environmental fluctuations had
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Our early ancestors probably created intricate artwork by firelight, an examination of 50 engraved stones unearthed in France has revealed. The stones were
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A combined study of genetics and skeletal remains shows that the switch from primarily hunting, gathering, and foraging to farming about 12,000 years
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique and completely intact 1,300-year-old Pala period idol has been found in a pond close to the ancient Nalanda University ruins, once
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers published a paper with the results of burial dating using the cosmogenic nuclide isochron method, applied for the first time directly to the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers looking to identify some of the most difficult "finds" in archeology—including sites used by nomadic hunter-gatherer communities—are tapping technology to help in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team with the participation of the University of Bern provides new insights into how the inhabitants of the "oldest city in the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New details about tuberculosis’ evolutionary history in ancient South America point to a complex web of disease transmission in the pre-colonial period, researchers
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists found evidence of ancient hybrid camels during the restoration of the so-called Temple of Allat at Hatra (second century AD). The temple
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Unguja Ukuu is a small settlement on Unguja island (Zanzibar Island), in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It is an archaeological site that has yielded abundant artifacts and evidence of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Cut into several boulders located within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, in western Nevada, the petroglyphs date to at least 10,500 years ago and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Remains of a large administrative facility from the First Intermediate Period were uncovered during an excavation carried out by an Austrian-Egyptian mission led
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery was made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in
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