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Category Archives: Archaeology
Native American Ancestry
Anthropologists had long believed humans migrated to the Americas in a relatively short period from a limited area in northeast Asia across a temporary land corridor that opened across the Bering Strait during an ice age. But government archaeologist Alejandro … Continue reading
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Superdirt Made Lost Amazon Cities Possible
Over the past several decades, researchers have discovered tracts of productive terra preta — “dark earth.” The human-made soil’s chocolaty color contrasts sharply with the region’s natural yellowish soils. National Geographic
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Domesticated Horses Date Back 5,500 Years
New evidence, corralled in Kazakhstan, indicates the Botai culture used horses as beasts of burden — and as a source of meat and milk — about 1,000 years earlier than had been widely believed, according to the team led by … Continue reading
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The Kelp Highway
It is now known that seafaring peoples living in the Ryukyu Islands and Japan near the height of the last glacial period (about 35,000 to 15,000 years ago) adapted to cold waters comparable to those found today in the Gulf … Continue reading
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Vikings With Vanity
Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons, and glittering bits of mirrors – the Vikings dressed with considerably more panache than we previously thought. The men were especially vain, and the women dressed provocatively. ScienceDaily
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The Secret Of Mayan Blue
Ancient Maya would paint unlucky people blue and throw them down a sacred well as human sacrifices. Now scientists have solved the mystery of how to make the famous blue pigment by analyzing traces on pottery left in the bottom … Continue reading
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Bone Ice Skates Invented by Ancient Finns
The researchers showed that people traveling across the region’s frozen lakes reduced their physical energy cost by 10 percent. National Geographic
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Cloud Warriors Of Peru
The “cloud warriors” of ancient Peru are slowly offering up their secrets — and more questions. Recent digs at this majestic site, once a stronghold of the Chachapoya civilization, have turned up scores of skeletons and thousands of artifacts, shedding … Continue reading
Ancient Egyptian Glassmaking Recreated
A team led by a Cardiff University archaeologist has reconstructed a 3,000-year-old glass furnace, showing that Ancient Egyptian glassmaking methods were much more advanced than previously thought. MSNBC Story
New Dates For Clovis Sites
New radiocarbon dates kept the controversy over the peopling of the Americas simmering in 2007. An analysis of dates for the best-documented Clovis sites suggests the culture arose later and was shorter-lived than once thought, a finding that some say … Continue reading
