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Large Megalithic Tombs in Neolithic Scotland Were Built to Safeguard the Paternal Line for Centuries
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (626+ words) A team of archaeologists has succeeded in establishing the genetic relationships among individuals buried in chambered tombs from the Neolithic period in northern Scotland, specifically in Caithness and the Orkney Islands, with a chronology spanning from 3800 to 3200 years before our…...
The Oldest Mule in Europe Found in Barcelona, Sacrificed and Buried With a Woman 2, 700 Years Ago in the Early Iron Age
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (380+ words) Initially, the equid was morphologically classified as a donkey. However, as reference collections expanded, it became apparent that it displayed a mosaic of traits that did not fully align with either the horse or the donkey. The doubt persisted for…...
Finding in Poland Reveals Lactose-Free Milk Drinking Rituals and Female Secret Societies in the Neolithic
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (793+ words) An international team of archaeologists has discovered at the S'aw'cinek site, in central Poland, a set of ceramic vessels demonstrating that more than 5, 000 years ago collective rituals with low-lactose dairy drinks were already being celebrated. The discovery, published in the…...
New findings in the Plain of Jars of Laos, the megalithic structures that still nobody knows when or by whom they were created
1+ week, 1+ day ago (757+ words) Since 2016 an archaeological team made up of researchers from Australia and Laos, led by Louise Shewan, Dougald O'Reilly and Thonglith Luangkhoth, has developed a research project in the so-called Plain of Jars, located in the province of Xieng Khouang, in…...
A 5, 000-Year-Old Bronze Age Bread Found in T'rkiye Reveals an Unusual Ritual Use
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1318+ words) A team of archaeologists has unearthed at the site of K'll'oba, in Anatolia, a charred bread dating between 3200 and 3000 BC. The discovery reveals that our ancestors were already mixing cereals and legumes and making possibly fermented breads for ceremonial purposes....
What Did the Sumerians of Southern Mesopotamia Eat in the 3rd Millennium BCE? A Technique Reveals the Diet of Non-Elite Populations
3+ week, 1+ day ago (798+ words) An international study applies zinc isotope analysis in tooth enamel for the first time to reconstruct the diet of a non-elite population in southern Mesopotamia, overcoming the poor preservation of organic remains. Tooth enamel is the hardest tissue in the…...
The encounter between Neanderthals and modern humans in the Iberian Peninsula occurred in the northwest
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (309+ words) A numerical simulation model developed at the University of Cologne has made it possible, for the first time, to dynamically trace and analyze the potential interactions between Neanderthal and anatomically modern human populations in the Iberian Peninsula during a crucial…...
The last European Neanderthals descended from a small group that survived by taking refuge in southwestern France during the glaciation
3+ week, 2+ day ago (455+ words) The results of this work, which combines new mitochondrial DNA data with exhaustive archaeological evidence, have been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The research, which made it possible to sequence the mitochondrial DNA…...
Archaeologists and the Tz'utujil Community Confirm the Discovery of an Ancient Maya Settlement Submerged Beneath Lake Atitl'n
3+ week, 2+ day ago (821+ words) The study, published in the journal Journal of Maritime Archaeology, was led by an international team of specialists and responds to years of lack of coordination, distrust, and lack of clarity regarding the nature of the archaeological remains lying beneath…...
Neanderthals accumulated the skulls of large horned herbivores for centuries in a cave in Madrid as part of an enigmatic ritual
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (764+ words) Research at the Des-Cubierta Cave (Madrid) reveals, through advanced spatial analyses, that the accumulation of heads of large herbivores was a symbolic and persistent behavior, not a single event, shaped by successive cave collapses. The key was combining traditional archaeological…...