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Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Chicken breeding in Japan dates back to fourth century BCE

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Red junglefowl, the species from which the chicken was domesticated Photo Credit: Masaki Eda Conclusive evidence of chicken breeding in the ...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Ancient DNA reveals entwined African and Asian ancestry along the Swahili coast of eastern Africa

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Rice researchers Mary Prendergast and Jeffrey Fleisher. Photo Credit: Brandon Martin. A new genetic study of medieval people who lived along...
Monday, March 6, 2023

Does the artificial watercourse in the Hessian Ried have a Roman past?

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At a site visit in the Hessian Ried (from left): Prof. Andreas Vött, University of Mainz, Prof. Markus Scholz, Goethe University, Dr. Thomas...

Red Deer Natural Habitat Recreated Over the Past 50,000 Years

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During the period of global cooling (33,000 years ago), the range of the species declined and reached a minimum of around Photo Credit:  Ale...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

23,000-year-old human genome from southern Spain decoded

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Human tooth recovered Cueva de Malalmuerzo Photo Credit: Pedro Cantalejo A new study reports on genomic data from a 23,000-year-old individu...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Steel Was Already Used in Europe 2900 Years Ago

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Using geochemical analyses, the researchers were able to prove that stone stelae on the Iberian peninsula that date back to the Final Bronze...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

New Study Shows Archery Appeared in Europe Thousands of Years Earlier than Previously Thought

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Laure Metz making experimental bow and arrow shots with arrows armed with Neronian light points.  Photo Credit: Ludovic Slimak The use of bo...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Hidden from the Romans: 200 tons of silver on the shores of the river Lahn

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"Tractor Tracks". The excavations in Bad Ems were initiated by J. Eigenbrod, who spotted suspicious traces in the field from his h...
Friday, January 6, 2023

New study suggests Mayas utilized market-based economics

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Obsidian collections from the site of Q'umarkaj and the surrounding region. Photo Credit: Rachel Horowitz More than 500 years ago in the...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Precise solar observations fed millions in ancient Mexico

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Rising sun Mount Tlaloc in Mexico. Photo Credit: Ben Meissner Without clocks or modern tools, ancient Mexicans watched the sun to maintain a...
Monday, November 21, 2022

1,700-year-old spider monkey remains discovered in Teotihuacán, Mexico

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Complete skeletal remains of a 1,700 year-old female spider monkey found in Teotihuacán, Mexico.  Photo Credit: courtesy of Nawa Sugiyama Th...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

UiB scientists discover 80 000-year-old bone tools

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80 000 Year Bone Tools: From left to right: experimental debarking in Africa, the bone tool tip after use, Francesco d'Errico taking rep...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Previously unknown monumental temple discovered near the Tempio Grande in Vulci

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Archaeologists and other colleagues uncover the walls of the Etruscan temple in Vulci. Photo Credit: Mariachiara Franceschini Archeologists ...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Old Bone Links Lost American Parrot to Ancient Indigenous Bird Trade

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A thick-billed parrot. Photo Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife. For centuries, Indigenous communities in the American Southwest imported colorf...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

A 10,000-Year-Old Infant Burial Provides Insights Into the Use of Baby Carriers and Family Heirlooms in Prehistory

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 Team of researchers including Claudine Gravel-Miguel from Arizona State University, Jamie Hodgkins from the University of Colorado Denver w...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Stone spheres could be from Ancient Greek board game

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Groups of spheres from Akrotiri Credit: Konstantinos Trimmis Archaeologists from the University of Bristol have suggested that mysterious st...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Archaeologists uncover ancient mosaics on the shore of the Sea of Galilee

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JGU students recording the outlines of the mosaic – with a tall waterside plant with blossoms and small green leaves on three stems in the e...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Using science to solve ancient Chinese art mystery

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UC assistant professor Pietro Strobbia consulted with the Cincinnati Art Museum to solve a mystery about one of its ancient Chinese masterpi...
Monday, September 5, 2022

Archaeologists discover monumental evidence of prehistoric hunting across Arabian desert

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Distribution of kite structures in the Levant and in northern Arabia. White: previously documented kites. Red: kites recorded by EAMENA. Cre...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Researchers develop the first AI-based method for dating archaeological remains

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Credit: Unsplash By analyzing DNA with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), an international research team led by Lund University in Sw...