Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from the National Insтιтute of Anthropology and History (INAH) led by the archeologist José Huchim Herrera, unearthed an elaborate stele with reliefs on both sides, in the Archaeological Zone of Uxmal, in the Yucatan peninsula. It is of great value that the stele was found ‘in situ’ (in the […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Excavations in the İnkaya Cave revealed a workshop that provides a valuable information on human migrations in the northwestern province of Çanakkale during the Paleolithic period. Image source İnkaya Cave, located within the borders of Bahadırlı village in the Çan district, was found during the Muğla and Çanakkale Provinces Survey […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A joint study by TAU and the Hebrew University, involving 20 researchers from different countries and disciplines, has accurately dated 21 destruction layers at 17 archaeological sites in Israel by reconstructing the direction and/or intensity of the earth’s magnetic field recorded in burnt remnants. Burnt mud brick wall from Tel […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Early farming in Scotland was a less smelly affair than elsewhere, as new research shows they did not need to use manure to fertilize their fields—unlike their counterparts in other parts of the British Isles and on mainland Europe. A house at Braes of Ha’Breck, one of the sites studied by […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers are working with a group of First Nations Australians in a race against time, and some of the roughest terrain on Earth, to document ancient art in the bark of Australia’s boab trees. Carvings in the boab trees tell the stories of the King Brown Snake (or Lingka) Dreaming […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Sikait Project research team, directed by Professor Joan Oller Guzmán from the Department of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies at the UAB, recently published in the American Journal of Archaeology the results obtained from the January 2019 excavation season at the ancient seaport of Berenike, located in Egypt’s Eastern […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers from the University of Barcelona have analyzed settlement dynamics of the communities of the central-eastern Iberian Peninsula that existed 4,000 years ago. The fortified settlement of La Bastida (Totana, Murcia). This is one of the largest and best excavated settlements of El Argar. Credit: ASOME-UAB Using a Big Data […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Using geomagnetic surface surveys and successful hands-on digging, archaeologists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) made very interesting discoveries in the area, in which the caliph’s palace of Khirbat al-Minya was built on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Researchers found stone structures made of basalt dating to various […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Who were the Neanderthals and what caused their demise? For more than 350 000 years, Neanderthals inhabited Europe and Asia until, in a sudden change by evolutionary standards, they disappeared around 40 000 years ago. This was at around the same time the anatomically modern human Homo sapiens emerged from […]