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Category Archives: Archaeology
America’s only Clovis skeleton genome offers clues to Native American ancestry (Update)
Nearly 13,000 years ago, a baby boy died in what is Montana today. Mourners stained his tiny body with red ochre and entombed him with artefacts that had likely been in his family for generations. After lying undisturbed for millennia, … Continue reading
What Killed the Great Beasts of North America? | Science/AAAS | News
Until about 11,000 years ago, mammoths, giant beavers, and other massive mammals roamed North America. Many researchers have blamed their demise on incoming Paleoindians, the first Americans, who allegedly hunted them to extinction. But a new study fingers climate and … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Prehistoric America
Tagged Extinction, Paleoindian, Younger Dryas
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Americas’ Natives Have European Roots – Scientific American
The 24,000-year-old remains of a young boy from the Siberian village of Mal’ta have added a new root to the family tree of indigenous Americans. While some of the New World’s native ancestry clearly traces back to east Asia, the … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, DNA, Native Americans
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Poles discovered an over 8 thousand years old grain storage in Turkey | News | Science & Scholarship in Poland
The largest so far known in the Middle East amount of grain of the Neolithic period in a perfect state of preservation has been discovered by Polish archaeologists in Çatalhöyük, a famous archaeological site in Turkey.Çatalhöyük is one of the … Continue reading
Mars — Ancient History Encyclopedia
Mars by Mark Cartwright published on 16 January 2014 Mars was the Roman god of war and second only to Jupiter in the Roman pantheon. Although most of the myths involving the god were borrowed from the Greek god of … Continue reading
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Aztec Ruins receives grant to help promote its World Heritage ranking – Farmington Daily Times
Aztec Ruins receives grant to help promote its World Heritage ranking – Farmington Daily Times.
Photo of the Day: Roman Forum in Pompeii
Posted in Ancient Rome, Archaeology, Italy, Pompeii
Tagged Ancient Rome, forum, Pompeii
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Oldest Bog Body – Archaeology Magazine
Oldest Bog Body – Archaeology Magazine.
Photo of the Day: Moab Rock Art
Posted in American Southwest, Ancient American Southwest, Archaeology, Prehistoric America
Tagged archaeology, Moab, rock art
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Prehistoric humans not wiped out by comet, say researchers
Comet explosions did not end the prehistoric human culture, known as Clovis, in North America 13,000 years ago, according to research published in the journal Geophysical Monograph Series. Researchers from Royal Holloway university, together with Sandia National Laboratories and 13 … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, Clovis, Comet, Pseudo Science
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Aztec Conquest Altered Genetics among Early Mexico Inhabitants
AUSTIN, Texas — For centuries, the fate of the original Otomí inhabitants of Xaltocan, the capital of a pre-Aztec Mexican city-state, has remained unknown. Researchers have long wondered whether they assimilated with the Aztecs or abandoned the town altogether. According … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, Aztecs, Genetics, Mexico
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Mexican archaeologists find petroglyphs in Nayarit
TEPIC, NAYARIT.- Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH-Conaculta) recently found a complex panel of petroglyphs that must have been carved between 850 and 1350 AD (some of which are over 1,000 years old), in a site … Continue reading
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