How Early Farmers In Scandinavia Overcame Climate Change
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – As the world faces the challenges of present-day climate change, scientific inquiry is, among other objectives, exploring how human societies navigate environmental variations at large. Reconstruction of a Bronze Age house near Forsand in south-west Norway. Archaeologically recorded house floor plans from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age allow conclusions to […]
Gold Treasures From The Land Of Ancient Colchian Culture In Georgia
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The wealth of sophisticated, ancient goldsmithing of the Colchian Culture is enormous. Necklace from Vani dated to 5th-4th century BC. Gold, weight: 88.968 g. The neclase is form of 56 crouching gazelles and 13 ribbed spacer beads. The animals were stamped in two halves and fused together. Ears and horns […]
America’s Native Population Arises From A Single Wave Of Asian Migration – Dental Anthropologists Say
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For more than 50 years, dental anthropologists have studied variation in the shape of human teeth to study the patterns of migration that people took as they populated the world. The last major continental migration event took place about 16,000 years ago, when humans first moved into North and South […]
Mysterious Anomaly In Earth’s Magnetic Field Documented On 3,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian Bricks
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – During previous excavations, archaeologists have found plenty of evidence that Babylonians and Sumerians were skilled astronomers. Sumerian cuneiform tablets confirm that knowledge of the Sumerians was not limited only to the knowledge of our solar system. People in Mesopotamia observed the night sky with great interest. They wanted and documented […]
A Mosasaur Wakayama – ‘Blue Dragon’ Terrorized Pacific Seas 72 Million Years Ago
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Researchers have described a Japanese mosasaur the size of a great white shark that terrorized Pacific seas 72 million years ago. A mosasaur analyzed by University of Cincinnati paleontologist Takuya Konishi had a dorsal fin like that of a great white shark that allowed it to maneuver with precision […]
Unusual 300,000-Year-Old Jawbone May Belong To An Unknown Vanished Human Lineage
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – There may still be vanished human species unknown to scientists. A research team has discovered an unusual 300,000-year-old jawbone with an unexpected combination of archaic and modern human features. A computer reconstruction of the skull and jaw fragments unearthed in China. New fossil fragments suggest the skull could have come […]
Madagascar Cave Art Hints At Ancient Connections Between Africa And Asia
AncientPages. com – Unique, prehistoric rock art drawings have been discovered in the Andriamamelo Cave in western Madagascar. I was part of a team that discovered and described these ancient treasures. They’re the first truly pictorial art, depicting images of nature with human-like and animal-like figures, to be seen on the island. Until recently, rock […]
Ancient Expensive Roman Domus With Beautiful Mosaic Unearthed In Rome
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists working within the Colosseum Archaeological Park’s research project, have unearthed some rooms of a luxurious domus dated to the late Republican age. Image credit: Ministry of Culture The discovery was made in close vicinity of the Horrea Agrippiana warehouse complex along the Vicus Tuscus (commercial road that connected the river […]
North America’s First People May Have Arrived By Sea Ice Highway 24,000 Years Ago
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – One of the H๏τtest debates in archaeology is how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally argued that people walked through an ice-free corridor that briefly opened between ice sheets an estimated 13,000 years ago. Credit: Adobe Stock – anibal But a growing number of archaeological and […]
Archaeologists Discover Previously Unknown Huge Galleries And Petroglyphs In Colorado
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Polish archaeologists investigated the Castle Rock Pueblo settlement complex in Colorado and made a discovery that exceeded their “wildest expectations.” Archaeologists exploring in Colorado discovered ancient rock carvings belonging to the Pueblo people. Credit: Jagiellonian University “Our findings from the current year completely change our perception of this settlement area […]