New evidence supports the hypothesis that beer may have been motivation to cultivate cereals
Stanford University archaeologists are turning the history of beer on its head.
Archaeology
Sep 12, 2018
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News tagged with cultural sites
Archaeology student makes an unusual find at a Peruvian dig
Caroline Coolidge was stunned.
Archaeology
Jul 30, 2019
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Artifacts on Australian continental shelf show Flying Foam Passage must be treated as protected archaeological site
The new discovery of ancient stone artifacts at an underwater spring off the Western Australia Pilbara coast has confirmed the location is a submerged archaeological site where more ancient Aboriginal artifacts are likely ...
Archaeology
Jun 26, 2023
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New Mexico mammoths among best evidence for early humans in North America
About 37,000 years ago, a mother mammoth and her calf met their end at the hands of human beings.
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Aug 1, 2022
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Study shows indigenous Canadian Arctic people's textiles predated European contact
A new study by Brown University researchers shows that the Dorset and Thule people—ancestors of today's Inuit—created spun yarn some 500 to 1,000 years before Vikings arrived in North America. The finding, made possible ...
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Aug 21, 2018
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350-year-old remains found in a Stone Age site in Portugal
An African man who lived just 350 years ago was buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira in Portugal. This was very surprising because Amoreira and other midden sites in the Muge region are well known by archaeologists ...
Archaeology
Feb 21, 2022
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Oldest evidence of human cannibalism as a funerary practice
The remains of human bones with cutmarks, breaks and human chewing marks found across northern Europe show that some human groups living around 15,000 years ago were eating their dead not out of necessity, but as part of ...
Archaeology
Oct 5, 2023
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300,000-year-old hearth found
Humans, by most estimates, discovered fire over a million years ago. But when did they really begin to control fire and use it for their daily needs? That question – one which is central to the subject of the rise of human ...
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Jan 27, 2014
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Cyber-archaeology, big data and the race to save threatened cultural heritage sites
In January, it was confirmed that St. Elijah's Monastery, the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq, was completely destroyed by ISIS troops after standing for 1,400 years near the city of Mosul. The race is on to digitally ...
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Feb 17, 2016
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Evidence of drug use during Bronze Age ceremonies
An analysis of strands of human hair from a burial site in Menorca, Spain, indicates that ancient human civilizations used hallucinogenic drugs derived from plants, reports a new paper published in Scientific Reports. These ...
Archaeology
Apr 6, 2023
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