Sumerian City Of Girsu: Political, Religious Center With Large Archive Of Thousands Of Cuneiform Tablets
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Modern Tello (Telloh) was an ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, located between the Tigris and Euphrates and about 20-25 kilometers north-northwest of Lagash in southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq). Bull statuette (human-headed) dated to about 2120 BC from ancient city of Girsu. Sumer. Height 11.8 cm (4.5 inches), width 8cm […]
Our Ancestors Made Drawings In The Sand At The Beach 140,000 Years Ago – Scientists Say
AncientPages.com – The urge to draw images in sand, or create sand sculptures, seems to be irresistible, as a walk on many a modern beach or dune surface will show. Sand is a vast canvas—and may have been used as one for far longer than people realize. When people think of ancient paleoart, cave paintings (pictographs), rock […]
Flying Reptiles Had Nurturing Parental Style – New Research Finds
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Did the pterosaurs, flying reptiles from the days of the dinosaurs, practice parental care or not? New research by scientists from Ireland (University College Cork), China (Nanjing and Yunnan Universities), and the UK (University of Bristol and Queen Mary University of London) shows that pterosaurs were indeed caring parents […]
How Important Were Human Body Sizes To The Colonizers Of New Zealand?
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For the first time, researchers have developed a model to estimate how much energy the original colonizers of New Zealand expended to maintain their body temperatures on the cold, harrowing ocean journey from Southeast Asia. Credit: Adobe Stock – Hatia Results showed that people making the first voyages from Tahiti […]
Viking House The Size Of Two Tennis Courts Discovered In Norway
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Norway report they have discovered what seems to be a mᴀssive Viking house that has the length of almost two tennis courts. The discovery was made when scientists excavated at an ancient royal estate site where they also unearthed an exquisite sword and many remnants of lavish parties. […]
Early Māori Settlement On The Subantarctic Islands -Uncovering Some Of The Unknown
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of archaeologists and environmental researchers have been exploring early Polynesian presence on Aotearoa New Zealand’s Subantarctic Islands. University of Canterbury Dr Matiu Prebble Ngai Tahu and Rewi Davis Ngai Tahu, Kaitiaki Ropu o Murihiku representative vibracoring on Sandy Bay, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands. Credit: University of Canterbury Environmental […]
DNA Evidence For Early Contact Between Farmers And Pastoralists In Black Sea Region
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent archaeogenetic studies have shown that human migrations and individual mobility played a bigger role in prehistory than previously anticipated. With the movement of people, also culture, technical know-how, language and social practices were often spreading, leading to sometimes fundamental changes in lifestyle and genetic ancestry. By studying 135 individuals […]
300,000-Year-Old Weapons Reveal Early Humans Were Woodworking Master
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 300,000-year-old hunting weapon has shone a new light on early humans as woodworking masters, according to a new study. State-of-the-art analysis of a double-pointed wooden throwing stick, found in Schöningen in Germany three decades ago, shows it was scraped, seasoned and sanded before being used to kill animals. The […]
Early Humans In The Hula Valley Invested In Systematic Procurement Of Raw Materials Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years Ago
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Prehistorians used advanced technology and discovered that early humans in the Hula Valley invested in systematic procurement of raw materials hundreds of thousands of years ago – much earlier than previously ᴀssumed. Geography, geology, Lower Paleolithic sites, surveyed areas, and extraction and reduction complexes and locations in the research area […]
Unusual Fossil Shows Rare Evidence Of A Mammal Attacking A Dinosaur
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Canadian and Chinese scientists have described an unusual fossil from around 125 million years ago that shows a dramatic moment in time when a carnivorous mammal attacked a larger plant-eating dinosaur. Fossil showing the entangled skeletons of Psittacosaurus (dinosaur) and Repenomamus (mammal), with magnified sections showing the mammal biting […]