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...
Remains of Linya, recovered in Cova Gran site. Credit: CEPAAt the Cova Gran de Santa Linya site (La Noguera, Lleida), the remains of a female attributed to H. sapiens were discovered by scientists of the Centro Nacional de Investigación Sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH). The carbon-14 record of the sediments in the natural vessel...
Photo by Clay Banks on UnsplashThere are many books on what's wrong with the economy ( Chang 2014; Keen 2011; Nelson 2018, Mazzucato 2018, Raworth 2018, Stanford 2015 ) and what we would need to do to change it. Considering the small change we've seen in economics training and effective policy economic thinking since the 2007/08 global...
The storage vessel after restoration - Photo: Dafna Gazit Israel Antiquities Authority. Medicine: Joseph BocangolzA team of scientists from the Israel Antiquities Authority found evidence of a massive earthquake in the city of Jerusalem dating back to approximately 2,800 years ago.Previous research had uncovered evidence of a significant earthquake in Israel in the mid-eighth...
