The enormous stone jars may be linked to mysterious containers discovered in Laos.The first four jar sites were found by British archaeologists in Assam state in 1928. Expeditions to the region by a team of archaeologists since 2014 have discovered six more sites in Assam and neighboring Meghalaya state. Credit: Tilok ThakuriaArchaeologists have found hundreds...
Repudiate Factor is where the Humber estuary fulfills the North Sea. (Image debt: Mr. Nut/ Alamy Stock Photo).Archaeologists are closing in on a shed middle ages town often described as Yorkshire's "Atlantis.".Excavators are closer than ever to situating a shed medieval town sometimes described as Yorkshire's "Atlantis" beneath the waves.Additionally called Ravenser Odd, the...
Credit: WOODRUFF ET AL. (2022); CORBIN RAINBOLTPeculiar growths on dinosaur neckbones hint at old infectionIt takes much force to cough a loogie up a nearly 4-meter-long neck, but that is what one dinosaur had to do. The Guardian reports that paleontologists have discovered unusual nodules on the neck of a 150-million-year-old sauropod, proof of the...
People like these Baka hunter-gatherers once ranged well beyond their current homeland in Central Africa. Credit: CYRIL RUOSO/MINDEN PICTURESChildren's skeletons give genomes more than 3000 years oldCentral Africa is far too hot and humid for ancient DNA to survive-- or so scientists assumed. Currently, the bones of four children buried thousands of years earlier...
Credit: Ghedoghedo/Wikimedia CommonsPleistocene age worms found in Arctic permafrost live and eat well after being defrosted some 42,000 years later.Two ancient nematodes are moving and eating normally again for the very first time since the Pleistocene age. The roundworms were discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost and subsequently thawed out and resuscitated in Petri...
Credit: Natural History Museum, construction by the Kennis brothers. Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals Mating Across GroupsHomo Sapiens and Neanderthals Mating Across Groups seem to be a new scientific discovery. Proof that cross-continental Stone Age networking occasions powered human evolution increased in 2021.Homo Sapiens may not have eliminated NeanderthalsA long-lasting argument that Homo sapiens originated...
Three views of the four articulated teeth making up KDP 20. a. occlusal view showing lingually placedmesial interproximal wear facet on P4 (arrow) and buccal wear on M3; b. lingual view showing a mesiallyplaced interproximal wear facet on P4 (arrow), chips from lingual faces of all teeth and rotated, partiallyimpacted M3; c. buccal view...
Cosmos Display at the front of the Antikythera Mechanism, showing the positions of the Sun, Moon, and five planets as well as the phase of the Moon and the nodes of the Moon. Copyright © 2020 Tony FreethResearchers at UCL have fixed a significant piece of the challenge that makes up the ancient Greek...
Experimental session. Credit: M. SilvaThe journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences published a study from The Paleoneurology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigación Sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) led by Emiliano Bruner. This study analyzes visual exploration patterns during handling of Lower Paleolithic tools, being the first application of the eye-tracking methodology to real stone...
Credit: University of ManchesterThe origins of Arthur's Stone, one of the UK's most famous Stone Age monuments, were discovered by archaeologists from the Universities of Manchester and Cardiff.According to Manchester's Professor Julian Thomas, who led the excavation, the ominous Herefordshire tomb links to nearby "halls of the dead" discovered in 2013.This construction inspired the...
