Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team, led by researchers from the Universities of Vienna and Tübingen, and the Max Planck Society, has identified five new human fossils from the key site of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia. The remains, which include three Denisovans and one Neanderthal, were found in a secure and well […]
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – What if Indigenous diets could save our politically and ecologically strained planet? The answer may lie in the success of an ancient civilization high in the Andes Mountains, where not much grows. UC Berkeley archaeologists reconstructed the diets of ancient Andeans living around Lake Titicaca, which straddles Bolivia and Peru
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A skull unearthed on an uninhabited Caribbean island is a rare find: It’s one of just a few examples of leprosy identified on a skeleton in the western hemisphere. And it’s the only one that’s been directly dated using radiocarbon, by analyzing a fragment of the skull itself rather than
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has revealed the death rate of babies in ancient societies is not a reflection of poor healthcare, disease and other factors, but instead is an indication of the number of babies born in that era. The findings shed new light on
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Based on the identification of plant remains, Tel Aviv University and Tel-Hai College researchers provide the first detailed reconstruction of the climate in the Land of Israel at the end of the last ice age (20,000-10,000 years before present). The researchers claim that significant climate changes characterizing the period, manifested
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new multidisciplinary study by an international team reports the discovery of an ivory pendant decorated with a pattern of at least 50 punctures, creating an irregular looping curve. The direct radiocarbon date of the ornament yields an age of 41,500 years. This result indicates that the Stajnia Cave jewelry
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Every now and then, we come across authors and scientists who are much ahead of their time. This is nothing unusual as some great minds can foretell future events with striking accuracy. There are also cases, like the one we discuss today, that may offer clues to the existence of
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Every now and then, we come across authors and scientists who are much ahead of their time. This is nothing unusual as some great minds can foretell future events with striking accuracy. There are also cases, like the one we discuss today, that may offer clues to the existence of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Referred to as China’s Venice of the Stone Age, the Liangzhu excavation site in eastern China is considered one of the most significant testimonies of early Chinese advanced civilization. More than 5000 years ago, the city already had an elaborate water management system. Until now, the cause of the sudden
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – There is a special and important reason it is not allowed to stay in Nidhivan after sunset. It is said that even the animals leave this mysterious place when darkness falls. Nidhivan is a sacred place in a dense forest in the historical city of Vrindavan, Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh,
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