Although dairy pastoralism once made Mongolian steppe herders successful enough to conquer most of Asia and Europe, the origins of this way of life on the East Asian steppe are still unclear. Now an international team of ...
Archaeology
Nov 5, 2018
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University of Liverpool academics have discovered what may be the remains of a 4,500 year old ramp system to transport the huge alabaster blocks used in the construction of Egypt's Great Pyramids.
Archaeology
Nov 5, 2018
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As early as 3,500 years ago, there was a brisk trade in fish on the shores of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea. This conclusion follows from the analysis of 100 fish teeth that were found at various archaeological sites ...
Archaeology
Oct 16, 2018
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Artifacts of the Bronze Age at the territory of the Southern Urals have been the object of active research for several decades by archaeologists from around the world. For the last decade, scientists of South Ural State University, ...
Archaeology
Aug 29, 2018
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Romanian and German archeologists have discovered a prehistoric fortress dating back as far as 3,400 years in western Romania.
Archaeology
Aug 7, 2018
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A new study published this week in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences has identified that the earliest plant fibre technology for making thread in Early Bronze Age Britain and across Europe and the Near ...
Archaeology
Jul 26, 2018
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New research provides insights into the extinction of Britain's largest native carnivore.
Ecology
Jul 4, 2018
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Agricultural activity by humans more than 2,000 years ago had a more significant and lasting impact on the environment than previously thought. The finding— discovered by a team of international researchers led by the University ...
Environment
Jun 13, 2018
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Salt has been mined at Hallstatt since the Bronze Age, including for the preservation of pork meat. Bone fragments and teeth found in the area provide evidence of an organized meat industry, especially of pork. Residual DNA ...
Archaeology
Jun 12, 2018
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An international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History has analyzed two 3,800-year-old Y. pestis genomes that suggest a Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague. The strain identified ...
Biotechnology
Jun 8, 2018
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