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Archaeologists upload the history of North America’s oldest colonial city
6+ day, 47+ min ago (364+ words) Credit: Map by Juan Joseph Elixio de la Puente (1764) The city of St. Augustine, Florida, has the distinction of being continuously occupied longer than any other European settlement in what is today the continental United States. A large portion of…...
Miniscule fossil discovery reveals fresh clues into the evolution of the earliest-known relative of all primates
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (568+ words) Purgatorius had previously only been found in the upper regions of North America, this discovery, 500 miles south, suggests they diversified soon after the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous image:Purgatorius upper molar from Corral Bluffs Denver Basin…...
Signs on Stone Age objects: Precursor to written language dates back 40,000 years
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (66+ words) The mammoth figurine from Vogelherd Cave, approximately 40,000 years old, bears multiple sequences of crosses and dots on its surface. The mammoth figurine from Vogelherd Cave, approximately 40,000 years old, bears multiple sequences of crosses and dots on its surface. Credit: Universit't…...
Study models the transition from Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (706+ words) Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in PLOS One Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne…...
A new methodology allows for a more precise review of Late Paleolithic portable art and improves the reliability of archaeological interpretations
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (825+ words) A team of archaeologists from the Universitat Jaume I, the University of Barcelona, and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) has developed a new methodology that allows for a much more detailed, precise'and objective analysis of Late…...
Medieval medicine was smarter than you think – and weirdly similar to TikTok trends
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (469+ words) New research transforms our understanding of the Dark Ages image:Medieval manuscripts like the Cotton MS Vitellius C III highlight uses for herbs that reflect modern-day wellness trends. view more Credit: The British Library It turns out the Dark Ages…...
An ancient signpost: Minute fossils tell big story about arthropod evolution
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (415+ words) A research team led by Nick Strausfeld at the University of Arizona discovered an extinct creature whose brain is very similar to that of living crustaceans, rather than spiders and their relatives, as was previously assumed. image:One of severalJianfengiafossil…...
Windows into the past: Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique genetic time capsule in the Balkans
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (193+ words) MORE IMAGES AVAILABLE VIA THE LINK IN THE NOTES SECTION He added: "Our study demonstrates how geography, social organisation, and historical circumstances can preserve ancient genetic patterns in certain regions long after they have become altered elsewhere." The study also…...
Discovery challenges long-held beliefs on early human technology in East Asia
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (304+ words) Discovery challenges long-held beliefs on early human technology in East Asia'EurekAlert! Reconstruction of Xigou tool-making. Credit: Credit Hulk Yuan A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behaviour in Eastern Asia. Led by…...
New 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus fossil reshapes understanding of early hominins
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (479+ words) A partial lower jaw discovered in Afar, Ethiopia expands the known geographic distribution of Paranthropus northward by 1000 km, revealing the genus to be more widespread and adaptively versatile than previously thought. Top: Multiple views of MLP-3000-1, the newly discovered Paranthropus…...