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Ancient Ethiopian Discovery May Represent The World's Earliest Evidence Of Cremation
1+ hour, 13+ min ago (814+ words) A newly published study in the journal of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that archaeological evidence unearthed in Ethiopia's Afar Rift Valley and dating back roughly 100, 000 years may constitute the earliest known scientific evidence of cremation ever documented. The…...
Ancient DNA reveals how a complex new society emerged after the fall of the Roman Empire | Archaeology News Online Magazine
16+ hour, 1+ min ago (509+ words) When Roman power faded across Western Europe, people did not wake up in a completely new world overnight. Communities changed over generations as newcomers arrived, local populations adapted, and new political groups took shape. A study published in Science traces…...
Earliest use of fire thrown back to 1. 8 million years ago
9+ hour, 26+ min ago (1407+ words) New study doubles the timeline of fire use by early humans in Wonderwerk Cave, but why they brought it there remains unclear, and what do owls have to do with it? How hominins came to adopt fire is unclear, given…...
Mol'tai to Review Paduobu" Burial Site Data
17+ hour, 47+ min ago (320+ words) Prepared by the infoerdve. lt editorial team based on information published by the Department of Cultural Heritage and Mol'tai District Municipality. The Department of Cultural Heritage under Lithuania's Ministry of Culture is scheduled to review registry data for a Second…...
News - Genetic Study Offers Clues to Survival in the Peruvian Andes
16+ hour, 10+ min ago (130+ words) News June 12, 2026 3, 000 years ago, an intoxicating new religion beckoned pilgrims to temples high in the Andes More than 1, 000 years ago, master weavers kept the ancient traditions of the Moche culture alive A millennium ago, the Chim" built a new way…...
Ancient clay figurine from Guatemala with 11-dot pattern suggests earliest known number writing in Mesoamerica | Archaeology News Online Magazine
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (505+ words) A small clay figurine from La Blanca in Guatemala adds new evidence to early number use in Mesoamerica. Archaeologists dated the object to 750650 BCE. The piece fits in the palm of a hand. Its most striking feature is a set…...
Let's See If You Can Survive 24 Hours In The Stone Age, Because Most People Born Between 1990 And 2005 Absolutely Cannot
14+ hour, 5+ min ago (7+ words) Are you a hunter or a gatherer?...
Researchers find a surprising human bias toward counterclockwise motion
19+ hour, 3+ min ago (1154+ words) People in Spain and Japan showed the same counterclockwise turning bias, pointing to a possible built-in feature of human movement. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4. 0) A crowd does not need a leader to fall into step. In public spaces, people sort…...
400-year-old burial in Finland uncovers a man whose bones, DNA, and teeth tell conflicting stories
19+ hour, 40+ min ago (88+ words) The Times of India - 400-year-old burial in Finland uncovers a man whose bones, DNA, and teeth tell conflicting stories New analysis challenges long-held interpretation of burial origins DNA evidence suggests S'mi affiliation alongside wider northern connections Isotopes and the geography…...
Study: Pacific Islanders Appear To Have Most Ancient Human DNA On Earth
19+ hour, 5+ min ago (531+ words) Research led by Serena Tucci (Yale University) Papua new guinea. Credit: Jelilah Kum on Unsplash An international team, publishing in the journal Science, sequenced the complete genomes of 177 individuals from 12 diverse Near Oceanic populations and compared them with 1, 284 genomes from…...