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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rutgers researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ancient Iraq, challenging our understanding of humanity's earliest agricultural
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many ancient civilizations have used alcohol, beer, and hallucinogens. The world's oldest paycheck reveals ancient Sumerian workers were paid in beer, and this
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula and Levant are crisscrossed by innumerable pathways. Across large areas of northwest Arabia, many of these
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The evolution of writing is a complex issue, but the Vai script, a rare manuscript may offer clues into this important question scientists
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Medieval warhorses are often depicted as massive and powerful beasts, but in reality many were no more than pony-sized by modern standards, a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new extinct reptile species has shed light on how our earliest ancestors became top predators by modifying their teeth in response to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It turns out San Francisco has been a destination for lovers of imported delicacies since its earliest Gold Rush days. According to results
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Very few proteins in the body have a change that makes them unique compared to the corresponding proteins in Neanderthals and apes. Researchers
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study casts doubt on drought as the driver of ancient Mayan civilization collapse. There is no dispute that a series of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study by Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority has exposed the remains of 2,700-year-old intestinal worm eggs below the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An Iron Age settlement dating from around 2,250 years ago has been discovered on the site of a new roundabout being built near
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Sediments in which archaeological finds are embedded have long been regarded by most archaeologists as unimportant by-products of excavations. However, in recent years
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - All the royal mummies found in the 19th and 20th centuries have long since been opened for study. With one exception: egyptologists have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. In the largest
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For the past century, Southwestern archaeologists have debated what happened to the Mimbres people of southwestern New Mexico after AD 1150, a group
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Human DNA can be extracted from the 'cement' head lice used to glue their eggs to hairs thousands of years ago, scientists have
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This weekend, Christmas was celebrated worldwide and here in Israel, with decorated fir trees, colorful lights, and of course with hats and figures
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists diving off the coast of Caesarea, Israel have recovered a magnificent treasure from two ancient shipwrecks. The treasure consists of hundreds
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New evidence from the bottom of a lake in the remote North Atlantic Faroe Islands indicates that an unknown band of humans settled
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Analysis of ancient DNA from one of the best-preserved Neolithic tombs in Britain has revealed that most of the people buried there were from
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research revealing a major migration to the island of Great Britain offers fresh insights into the languages spoken at the time, the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What routes did Homo sapiens take on his way from Africa to Europe and Asia in the previous millennia? The climatic conditions changed,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The central Mediterranean throughout time has been a region defined by the continuous flow of people, goods, and ideas. Excavation and analysis of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Mobility shaped the human world profoundly long before the modern age. But archaeologists often struggle to create a timeline for the speed and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Sea level changes caused the decline of one of the longest pre-Columbian coastal societies of the Americas 2,000 years ago, known as Sambaqui.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New archeological study shows ancient connection between populations 3,000 km apart, and provides first direct link between climate change and ancient human social
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A German-Egyptian mission at Al-Sheikh Hamad archaeological site in Tel Atribis in Sohag has unearthed a collection of 13,000 ostraca (clay vessel fragments) which
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For decades, historians have debated whether an infamously violent Viking torture ritual ever really happened, or if it was a misunderstood or embellished
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first genome-wide ancient human DNA data from Sudan reveals new insights into the ancestry and social organization of people who lived more than
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have explored charred lumps from the site of Kadebakele, in southern India, where they have excavated for several years with the support
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Despite its prior status as a luxury commodity, silver became widely used for coinage in the Roman world from the 7th century BCE
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A small carved figure was recently unearthed during the excavation of the medieval town of Oslo, Norway. The figure depicts a person in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hunter-gathers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archeologists from Leiden University in collaboration
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have tried to solve the mystery of the demon wall in Suaherad Church for 80 years, and now they finally learned the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ten thousand years ago, just after the last Ice Age, a group of hunter-gatherers buried an infant girl in an Italian cave. They
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Elemental and lead isotope analyses of ancient copper ingots are unlocking secrets of Early Iron Age trade routes and how indigenous Mediterranean communities
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rising as high as 20 feet, ancient stone monoliths in southern Ethiopia are 1,000 years older than scientists previously thought, according to a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Tibetan Plateau has long been considered one of the last places to be populated by people in their migration around the globe.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists from the University of Zurich examined a unique leather scale armor from the grave of a horseman in northwest China. The style and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In Bronze Age Europe, many bronze objects such as axes, swords and jewels were deliberately left at specific spots in the landscape. Ph.D.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most people around the world agree that the made-up word 'bouba' sounds round in shape, and the made-up word 'kiki' sounds pointy --
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