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Discovery in South Africa holds oldest evidence of mixing ingredients to make arrow poison
In 1983, archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified antelope and was found to be 7,000 years old. X-rays revealed that three modified bone arrowheads had ...
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Jan 23, 2025
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History under the floorboards: Decoding the diets of institutionalized women in 19th century Sydney
Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks was built between 1817 and 1819 to house male convicts.
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Jan 22, 2025
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Women were at the center of iron age Britain. New find reminds us how misogyny has shaped our view of the past
Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written records. New DNA research from the University of Bournemouth shows one of the ways this empowerment ...
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Jan 21, 2025
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How do we survive crises—then and now? Archaeologists examine four common resilience strategies
How do we survive when the world strikes again? How do we cope when crisis hit? An extreme external incident where the food supply fails and resources dwindle. Should we store food, leave our homes or seek help from the neighbors? ...
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Jan 21, 2025
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Trump's meme coin is nothing new—it takes a page out of the ancient world's playbook
Nowadays, we probably never stop to think about why money was invented. If you are a cynical person, you won't be surprised to learn the prime motivation was to make a profit for rulers.
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Jan 21, 2025
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Saving lives and limbs on the high seas: The extraordinary world of early modern ship's surgeons
Imagine you are at sea facing a violent battle with an enemy ship. The experienced 17th-century surgeon John Moyle asked his reader to do just that. In his printed guide of recommended practice, the reader was compelled to ...
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Jan 21, 2025
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Dried plants 19th-century Australian colonial institution indicate secret, illicit snacking among residents
Analysis of dried plants from a colonial institution in 19th-century Australia reveals many foodstuffs that do not appear in official records were being eaten, potentially as an informal means to resist the monotony of life ...
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Jan 21, 2025
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Turf over surf: Isotope analysis reveals prehistoric Greek dietary practices
Simon Fraser University, the Greek Ministry of Culture, and the University of Bologna have conducted an isotope study on the dietary patterns of Mesolithic and Neolithic humans at Franchthi Cave, Greece. The report confirms ...
A new chapter in Roman administration: Insights from a late Roman inscription
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Tetrarchic boundary stone at the site of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel. Originally marking land borders under Roman Emperor Diocletian's tax reforms, the stone provides insight into ...
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Jan 20, 2025
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Small carnivores may have constituted important part of hunter–gatherer nutrition in the Levant
A recent study published by Dr. Shirad Galmor and colleagues in Environmental Archaeology examined the role played by foxes and wildcats at the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (EPPNB) site of Aḥihud (Israel). The site was ...
Echoing in eternity: 2,100-year-old Alexander the Great mosaic analyzed for restoration
In 333 BCE, near the small Pinarus River along the modern-day borders of Turkey and Syria, a fierce battle took place between the forces of Alexander the Great and the Persian king Darius III. Here, in the Battle of Issus, ...
Not only cereals: Revealing the menu of farmers 5,000 years ago
The so-called Funnel Beaker Culture (4000–2800 BCE) represents the first phase in Southern Scandinavia/northern Germany in which people were agriculturalists and kept livestock. The lifestyle of these farmers has been a ...
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Jan 17, 2025
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Medieval birds of prey thrived on human waste, study finds
Birds of prey in medieval Britain relied far more heavily on scavenging human waste than previously thought, according to research that analyzed more than 30 ancient bird skeletons.
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Jan 16, 2025
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How animals, people, and rituals created Teotihuacán
The remains of nearly 200 animals found in Mexico's Teotihuacán are helping reconstruct history.
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Jan 16, 2025
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Homo erectus adapted to harsh deserts 1.2 million years ago, study finds
Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest that behavioral adaptations ...
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Jan 16, 2025
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Volcanic eruptions linked to Neolithic 'sun stone' sacrifices in Denmark
About 4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists from the University of Copenhagen can now show ...
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Jan 16, 2025
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Researchers explore hyperspectral imaging to virtually restore murals
In a study published in Heritage Science, a team led by Prof. Zhang Pengchang from the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed an automated virtual restoration system ...
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Jan 15, 2025
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East Asia meets Europe in Lower Austria: Archaeologists perform genetic analysis of Early Middle Age individuals
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, together with an international team, carried out an archaeogenetic study of human remains from more than 700 individuals from the Early Middle Ages. ...
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Jan 15, 2025
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Aboriginal message sticks are a fascinating insight into a complex system of written communication
When we think of writing systems we likely think of an Alphabetic writing system, where each symbol (letter) in the alphabet represents a basic sound unit, such as a consonant or a vowel.
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Jan 15, 2025
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Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centered on women
An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age society, finding evidence of ...
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Jan 15, 2025
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