Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An old city of Stratonikeia Stratonicea) has rich historical records going back 3,000 years. The council building at the ancient city of Stratonicea, in Mugla, Türkiye, May 6, 2023. Image credit: AA PH๏τo – via Daily Sabah It played host to many civilizations that left artifacts belonging to the Hellenistic, […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Humans have the highest prenatal growth rate of all extant primates, but how this exceptional rate came about has been a mystery up to now. Leslea Hlusko, a scientist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has participated in a study led by Tesla Monson, a […]

AncientPages.com – That the arrival of Europeans in the New World in 1492 led to a mᴀssive shift in the ecological landscape has been widely accepted for the past 50 years. Does a painting from 1400 depict one of Jesus’ torturers as suffering from ‘saddle nose,’ a common effect of syphilis? Detail of an Austrian […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses that allow us to hear. The 3D braincase of Shuyu. Credit: IVPP Embryonic and fossil evidence proves that the human middle ear evolved from the spiracle of […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Already in the Bronze Age, pastoralists covered long distances across the Eurasian steppes – presumably thanks to their consumption of milk. The Yamnaya, one of the earliest pastoralist populations of the Eurasian steppe, began expanding out of the Pontic-Caspian steppe more than 5000 years ago. These migrations resulted in gene […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Middle East region is important to understand human evolution and migrations but is underrepresented in genomic studies. Whole-genome sequencing efforts around the world have offered important insights into human diversity, historical migrations, and the relationships between people of different regions—but scientists still don’t have a complete picture because some […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers analyzed human tissues of 29 individuals (26 urn cremations and 3 inhumations) from Szigetszentmiklós-Ürgehegy, one of the largest Middle Bronze Age urn cemeteries in Hungary. The site is located in the northern part of the Csepel Island (a few kilometers south of Budapest) and was in use between c. […]