Humans Got To America 7,000 Years Earlier Than Thought – New Research Confirms
AncientPages.com – When and how humans first settled in the Americas is a subject of considerable controversy. In the 20th century, archaeologists believed that humans reached the North American interior no earlier than around 14,000 years ago. But our new research found something different. Our latest study supports the view that people were in America about 23,000 years ago. […]
Reconstrucion Of The 19-Meter-Long Gjellestad Viking Ship In Progress
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – One can easily imagine how impressive the 19-meter-long Gjellestad Viking ship must have been before being destroyed. In 2018 archaeologists made an incredible discovery in Norway. Using high-resolution georadar, scientists unearthed a giant Viking ship, a Medieval settlement, and three burial mounds. The Gjellestad ship. Credit: Museum of Cultural History “We […]
Why Did Every Viking Own A Whetstone And Trade Mᴀssive Amounts Of Them?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Vikings understood the importance and benefits of trading and exchanging often in the selling and buying of goods. During the Viking Age, people established commercial hubs where visitors from distant lands came to buy or sell something of value. One of the most flourishing Viking towns was Kaupang, located in […]
Was Ice Age Cave Art Influenced By Pareidolia?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists propose a psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, such as seeing faces in clouds, may have stimulated early humans to make cave art. Ortho-images (orthorectified image accounting for distortions in the topography of the cave wall) of depictions that are simple in style and have […]
Study: Grinding Tools Were Once Used In Plant, Pigment And Bone Processing At Jebel Oraf Site, Saudi Arabia
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Use-wear analysis of grinding tools unearthed at the site of Jebel Oraf in the Nafud desert, shows that the artifacts were used during the Neolithic time. It sheds new light on the subsistence and lifestyle of ancient peoples that once lived in the region, according to a new study. Re-fit […]
Oldest Fossil Human Footprints In North America Confirmed
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New research reaffirms that human footprints found in White Sands National Park, NM, date to the Last Glacial Maximum, placing humans in North America thousands of years earlier than once thought. In September 2021, scientists announced that ancient human footprints discovered in White Sands National Park were between 21,000 and […]
Surprising Evidence Prehistoric People In Survived In The Coldest Regions Of Spain
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Research into ancient hunter-gatherer populations of the Iberian Peninsula has mainly focused on coastal regions, with relatively little investigation into the inland. A classic hypothesis has been that the cold and dry conditions of inland Iberia would have been too harsh for such populations to inhabit during the coldest periods of […]
Our Ancestors Collected Shells 100,000 Years Ago To Create Personal Idenтιтy
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have found evidence suggesting the ancient use of ochre in Africa and Europe indicates that body painting, clothing decoration, and tattooing may date back to more than 300,00 years ago, or perhaps even 500,000 years ago. But when did our ancestors start showing signs of the early creation of […]
Remarkable Neolithic Life-Sized Camel Engravings Discovered In The Nefud Desert
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While investigating a site at the southern edge of the Nefud desert in Saudia Arabia, archaeologists discovered remarkable ancient life-sized engravings of extinct camel species. The newly discovered rock art site of the Sahout area “is dominated by life-sized, naturalistic, engravings of camels, which are in some cases superimposed with […]
More Than 10,000 Pre-Columbian Earthworks Remain Hidden Throughout Amazonian Forests
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – More than 10,000 Pre-Columbian archaeological sites likely rest undiscovered throughout the Amazon basin, estimates a new study. Geographical distribution of known and newly discovered pre-Columbian geometric earthworks in Amazonia. (A) Map of previously reported and newly discovered earthworks (purple circles and yellow stars, respectively) reported in this study across six […]