AncientPages.com – 60 million years ago, two asteroids struck Earth in what is now Sweden. It is the only proven example of such a double strike. The only known evidence of two asteroids simultaneously crashing to earth has been unearthed
AncientPages.com – Aboriginal society has preserved memories of Australia’s coastline dating back more than 7,000 years, researchers say. After three years of painstaking research, University of the Sunshine Coast Professor of Geography Patrick Nunn and collaborator Nick Reid, a University of
AncientPages.com – Research into human fossils dating back to approximately two million years ago reveals that the hearing pattern resembles chimpanzees, but with some slight differences in the direction of humans. An international team of scientists led by Rolf Quam
AncientPages.com – The discovery of 15 individuals, consisting of 1,550 bones, represents the largest fossil hominin find on the African continent. It also raises intriguing questions about our evolutionary past. While primitive in some respects, the face, skull, and teeth
An international team of researchers has sequenced the first complete genome of an Iberian farmer. It is also the first ancient genome from the Mediterranean. This new genome provides the distinctive genetic changes of Neolithic migration in southern Europe that
AncientPages.com – Research into 430,000-year-old fossils collected in northern Spain found that the evolution of the human body’s size and shape has gone through four main stages, according to a paper published this week. A large international research team including
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists from The Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) found about 10,000 Neanderthal artifacts and a sleeping area at Abric Romaní, an archaeological site located in a cliff outside of the village
AncientPages.com – The Ice Age world was, geologically, just a moment ago. Fascinating but today extinct giant animals, like mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths, coexisted with early Americans in those days. For millions of years, these animals survived, living in
