Dr. Jacob Bongers, University of Sydney. Photo: Stefanie Zingsheim / University of Sydney. How a coastal civilization before the Inca transformed seabirds, soil, and maize into a system of enduring power Editor’s Note The best conversations often begin mid thought. Dr. Jacob Bongers, digital archaeologist at the University of Sydney and Visiting Research Fellow at
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Self portrait of Dr. Jean-Jacques Hublin, Image credit: Collège de France How North African mandibles reveal populations near the human-Neanderthal divergence In the coastal formations of Casablanca, Morocco, where ancient sea levels carved caves into wind hardened dunes, researchers have uncovered fossils that illuminate a pivotal moment in human evolution. Dating to 773,000 years ago,
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Self portrait, Image credit: Dr. Maria Guagnin 130 Gigantic Rock Carvings from 12,000 Years Ago Unveil Ancient Arabian Routes and the Sources of Life Along the southern edge of the Nefud Desert in northern Arabia, 130 life-sized rock carvings have emerged from obscurity. Suspended high on cliff faces, some stretching three meters in length, they
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In the windswept landscape of Northumberland, England, just south of Hadrian’s Wall, archaeologists at Magna Fort (Carvoran) have made a discovery that stretches the limits of what we know about Roman military life…
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Eva Rosenstock during the excavations at Çatalhöyük West in 2008. In the foreground, we can see a mudbrick wall from the buildings dating from the 6th millennium BCE. Image credit: Çatalhöyük Research Project New DNA evidence from Çatalhöyük reveals a 9,000-year-old civilization where women may have held the social reins When archaeologist James Mellaart first
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Beneath the azure waters of the Easternmost Mediterranean, a geological time capsule lies hidden, one that fundamentally challenges our understanding of oceanic crust formation and preservation…
In an era defined by escalating environmental anxieties, particularly the looming specter of water scarcity, we often look to cutting-edge technologies for salvation. Yet, sometimes, the most profound solutions lie not in the future, but buried deep within our past. Consider the ancestral Maya,…
High atop the windswept plateaus of the Golan Heights, an ancient megalithic structure has long captured the imagination of archaeologists and mystics alike. Its massive stones, arranged in perfect concentric circles, earned it the haunting name “Wheel of Ghosts”…
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Along the ancient, windswept lakeshores of Finland, a groundbreaking discovery is rewriting the narrative of prehistoric life. New research, published in Sound Studies on November 24, 2024, reveals that…
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In a groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable collection of ancient rock art deep within the Colombian Amazon…
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