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Archaeologists discover diseased Anglo-Saxons that received monastic care
An additional 20 intact human burials and the disturbed remains of many more have been discovered by archaeologists excavating a monastery in Cookham.
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Aug 30, 2024
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Computer 'reconstructions' of faces from ancient times are popular. But how reliable are they?
When we read about the lives of people from the ancient past, we naturally want to know what they looked like.
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Aug 30, 2024
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What a submerged ancient bridge discovered in a Spanish cave reveals about early human settlement
A new study led by the University of South Florida has shed light on the human colonization of the western Mediterranean, revealing that humans settled there much earlier than previously believed. This research, detailed ...
Archaeology
Aug 30, 2024
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The Vesuvius challenge is using AI to virtually unroll Pompeii's ancient scrolls
The Vesuvius Challenge is an unparalleled competition in the field of classical studies, with the potential to pave the way for something akin to a second Renaissance. Its objective is to use artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Archaeology
Aug 29, 2024
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Study reveals isolation, endogamy and pathogens in early medieval Spanish community
An archaeogenetic study sheds new light on the isolated medieval community Las Gobas in northern Spain. Besides isolation and endogamy, researchers have also identified the variola virus, which can offer a new explanation ...
Archaeology
Aug 28, 2024
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Study: Among Viking societies, Norway was much more violent than Denmark
Rates of violence in Viking Age Norway and Denmark were long believed to be comparable. A team of researchers including University of South Florida sociologist David Jacobson challenges that assumption.
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Aug 28, 2024
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Study links fear of conflict to population changes in Neolithic Europe
Since the end of the last Ice Age, growth of the human population has been far from uniform, marked instead by periods of rapid expansion followed by sharp declines. The reasons behind these fluctuations remain only partially ...
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Aug 28, 2024
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Wood charcoal reveals the existence of a variety of woody plants around early millet sites
A study led by Hui Shen, Keliang Zhao, Xinying Zhou, Xiaoqiang Li from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Zhenwei Qiu from the National Museum of China has reconstructed ...
Archaeology
Aug 27, 2024
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Researchers propose a theory to explain how the Menga dolmen was built
A multi-institutional team of historians, geologists, physicists, and archaeologists in Spain has developed a theory to explain how a neolithic culture could have built the Menga dolmen, an ancient structure consisting of ...
Seeking an ethical approach to ancient DNA analysis
The study of ancient DNA provides valuable insights into human history, including how ancient populations migrated and merged with each other. But discoveries drawn from this ancient genetic data can directly impact the living ...
Archaeology
Aug 27, 2024
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Unique Iron- and Viking-age mortuary houses unearthed in Norway
Recent work published by Dr. Raymond Sauvage and Dr. Richard Macphail in Medieval Archaeology describes the excavation and interpretation of three Iron- and Viking-Age mortuary houses in central Norway, Skeiet, in the village ...
Evidence found of Europeans using cocaine as far back as the 17th century
A team of biomedical and medicinal specialists from the University of Milan, working with a colleague from Foundation IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, has found evidence of cocaine use by at least ...
Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic diversity of post-Roman elites
A new study of ancient DNA by a team of international researchers and co-led by Krishna R. Veeramah, Ph.D., of Stony Brook University, provides insight into the development and social structures of European rural communities ...
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Aug 23, 2024
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Could an 11th-century contract prove the existence of same-sex marriage in medieval Spain?
In 1061, two men, Pedro Díaz and Munio Vandilaz, signed a legal agreement in which they undertook to share the management of the house and church of Santa María de Ordes—most likely the current parish of the same name ...
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Aug 22, 2024
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To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say
How did early humans use sharpened rocks to bring down megafauna 13,000 years ago? Did they throw spears tipped with carefully crafted, razor-sharp rocks called Clovis points? Did they surround and jab mammoths and mastodons? ...
Archaeology
Aug 21, 2024
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Ancient tree resin artifacts provide earliest-known evidence of humans dispersing through the Pacific
Exactly when and how humans dispersed into and through the Pacific remains an intensely debated topic. Previous studies have been hampered by imprecise chronometric dating, making the exact timing and movement of people into ...
New insight into the origins and motivations for ritual tooth removal in ancient Taiwan
A recent study published by archaeologist Yue Zhang and her colleagues in Archaeological Research in Asia has provided detailed insights into the practice of tooth ablation in Taiwan from the Neolithic through to the modern ...
Ice Age Europeans: Climate change caused a drastic decline in hunter–gatherers, fossil study shows
A large-scale study of fossil human teeth from Ice Age Europe shows that climate change significantly influenced the demography of prehistoric humans.
Archaeology
Aug 19, 2024
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How researchers determined that Stonehenge's giant Altar Stone came all the way from northeast Scotland
No one is certain why Stonehenge was built. This world-famous monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire is thought to commemorate the dead, and is aligned with movements of the sun and moon.
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Aug 18, 2024
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UK diving team hail suspected WWI warship find
A team of UK divers has hailed the discovery of a wreck off Scotland believed to be a Royal Navy warship sunk during World War I but still "virtually intact".
Archaeology
Aug 18, 2024
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