August 2021

Controversial Ruler Tsar Boris Godunov's Exact Date Of Birth Determined By Scientists

Controversial Ruler Tsar Boris Godunov’s Exact Date Of Birth Determined By Scientists

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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.om – The controversial ruler Boris Godunov (1552–1605) has unwillingly become an unpopular character in Russian history. His biography is full of ambiguities and gaps. Some have attributed non-existing names to him, others have blamed him for the death of almost all the last Rurikids—not only Tsarevich Dmitry, but also Ivan the […]

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Locations of oral traditions with possible connections to sea-level change recounted by Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. Credit: Dr John MccArthy in Australian Archaeology. Topography and bathymetry from the SRTM30-plus v 8.0 via the eAtlas service, CC BY 4.0

Australia’s Submerged Indigenous Sites – New Discoveries And Study

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New archeological research highlights major blind spots in Australia’s environmental management policies, placing submerged Indigenous heritage at risk. The study area relative to the main terrestrial and offshore regions of Australia, based on state and marine bioregions. Contains GEBCO 15 ArcSecond raster data (Public Domain) and Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Maritime Boundaries

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Never-Before-Seen Archaic Shell Rings Left By Indigenous People Revealed By Remote Sensing And Machine Learning

Never-Before-Seen Archaic Shell Rings Left By Indigenous People Revealed By Remote Sensing And Machine Learning

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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Deep in the dense coastal forests and marshes of the American Southeast lie shell rings and shell mounds left by Indigenous people 3,000 to 5,000 years ago. Now an international team of researchers, using deep machine learning to assess remote sensing data, has located previously undiscovered shell rings. The researchers

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The trauma is slightly healed. However, because it seems to have been severe enough to have caused terrible damage to the person, it is likely perimortem. Credit: Chikushino City Board of Education

Population Pressure And Prehistoric Violence In The Yayoi Period Of Japan

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A continuous rise in the global population has led to fears that conflicts and war will become more frequent as resources dwindle. But this widespread belief has not been quantified based on actual Japanese archaeological data, until now. Researchers from Okayama University have now examined the skeletal remains of people

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Neanderthal Hunting Camp Discovered In The Center Of The Iberian Peninsula

Neanderthal Hunting Camp Discovered In The Center Of The Iberian Peninsula

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com –Researchers undertook a zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of the Neanderthal Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid), some 76,000 years old, whose results indicate that these Neanderthals mainly hunted large bovids and cervids. Fauna remains. Credit: Abel Moclán Thanks to the taphonomic study, it has been possible to characterize the

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'Impossible' Ancient Knowledge Of A Star Of The Gods - First Observations - Part 1

‘Impossible’ Ancient Knowledge Of The Gods’ Star – First Observations – Part 1

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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – There are countless examples of how the modern world regularly underestimates our ancestors’ knowledge. Not only were ancient civilizations much more advanced than previously thought, but some of them were also aware of celestial objects we have only recently discovered. How could ancient people be familiar with stars and planets

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'Impossible' Ancient Knowledge Of A Star Of The Gods - First Observations - Part 1

‘Impossible’ Ancient Knowledge Of The Gods’ Star – First Observations – Part 1

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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – There are countless examples of how the modern world regularly underestimates our ancestors’ knowledge. Not only were ancient civilizations much more advanced than previously thought, but some of them were also aware of celestial objects we have only recently discovered. How could ancient people be familiar with stars and planets

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Hundreds Of Exceptional Bronze Age Artifacts Discovered In France Were Probably Offerings

Hundreds Of Exceptional Bronze Age Artifacts Discovered In France Were Probably Offerings

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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in France have unearthed hundreds of exceptional Bronze Age artifacts that were most likely offerings. The still-well-preserved 3,00-year-old artifacts include jewelry and weapons that were found at the prehistoric site in Gannat in Allier. Some of the Bronze Age items have “already been analyzed, revealing women’s or children’s jewelry,

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Pictogram representing an earthquake that took place on the year 2 Reeds or 1507. The gloss describes that the pictogram recounts the drowning of 1,800 warriors in an unidentified river, presumably in southern Mexico, the termination of the temple of the New Fire, where the ceremony of the new cycle of life was celebrated, and a solar eclipse as a circle with rays emanating from it in the upper right-hand side, below the date sign. Credit: Gerardo Suarez and Virginia Garcia-Acosta

Pictograms: First Written Accounts Of Earthquakes In Pre-Hispanic Mexico

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Codex Telleriano Remensis, created in the 16th century in Mexico, depicts earthquakes in pictograms that are the first written evidence of earthquakes in the Americas in pre-Hispanic times, according to a pair of researchers who have systematically studied the country’s historical earthquakes. Pictogram representing an earthquake that took place

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Richly endowed Early Bronze Age burial from Bohemia, Czech Republic. Credit: Michal Ernée

Central European Prehistory Was Highly Dynamic – New Study Shows

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Recent archaeogenetic studies have shown that human movements like migrations and expansions played a major role in driving the spread of cultures and genes in ancient Europe. However, it is only now with detailed regional studies and dense sampling that researchers start to better understand the magnitude, rate, and social implications

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