What Can Monument 9 Reveal About The Mysterious Olmec Civilization?
AncientPages.com – Aztec and Maya civilizations are household names – but it’s the Olmecs who are the ‘mother culture’ of ancient Mesoamerica. Jade Olmec warriors mask from Tabasco (Mexico). Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels (Belgium). Credit: Michel Wal – CC BY-SA 3.0s An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an […]
El Gigante Offers Lessons In Sustainability, Evolution And Human Adaptation, Courtesy Of The Holocene
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The El Gigante rockshelter in western Honduras is among only a handful of archaeological sites in the Americas that contain well-preserved botanical remains spanning the last 11,000 years. Considered one of the most important archaeological sites discovered in Central America in the last 40 years, El Gigante was recently nominated […]
Major Discovery Reveals Neanderthals In Italy Engaged In Plant Food Processing
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and now there’s new evidence they did so long before scientists previously thought. Published in Quaternary Science Reviews, an Italian-led study of five ancient grindstones from around 39,000 to […]
Shattering The Myth Of Men As Hunters And Women As Gatherers
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather. A common belief holds that, among foraging populations, men have typically hunted animals while women gathered […]
Ancestor Of Italian Pizza Depicted On Fresco In Pompeii
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 2,000-year-old fresco discovered on the wall of a house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii depicts what could be described as a distant ancestor of modern Italian pizza! Italy’s Culture Ministry said in a press statement it is not a pizza, strictly speaking, given that some of the […]
Genomics And Archaeology Rewrite The Neolithic Revolution In The Maghreb
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For decades archaeology has been trying to explain how and why humans went from being exclusively hunter-gatherers to producing food, adopting agriculture and livestock. How did the “Neolithic Revolution” happen? Where did it all begin, and how did it spread? To answer some of these questions and, as always in […]
Ceramics Are Telling The Story Of 14th Century Chinese Trade
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers examined the Longquan celadon (high-quality glazed ceramic pottery) industry, located in Zhejiang province in China, which flourished mainly between the Southern Song and early Ming dynasties. Image credit: Durham University The products of this industry are found on archaeological sites across China and the Indian Ocean. However, the history […]
Roman Marble Head Found In Lake Nemi Could Be From Caligula’s Legendary Ships
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A large Roman marble head has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Nemi in the Lazio region of Italy 30 km (19 mi) south of Rome, Italy. The discovery is fascinating because there is reason to believe the head could be from one of the legendary ships of the […]
Intrepid Southern Voyage In The Wake Of Early Waka
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A recent expedition by an archaeology team from the Universities of Auckland and Canterbury to Enderby in the Auckland Island archipelago plans to answer remaining questions about Maori voyaging and life on the island dating back to 1400 CE. Big seas in the southern ocean aboard Evohe, a 25-meter pᴀssenger […]
Amazing 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Bead-Net Dress Found In Giza Tomb Restored
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In 1927, a team of archaeologists led by George A. Reisner excavated at Giza, Egypt, where they unearthed a remarkable ancient treasure. The scientists discovered the only complete ancient Egyptian bead-net dress found to date in one of the tombs! Most ancient Egyptian tombs have been looted, but the owner’s […]