Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Etruscan civilization, which flourished during the Iron Age in central Italy, has intrigued scholars for millennia. With remarkable metallurgical skills and a now-extinct, non-Indo-European language, the Etruscans stood out from their contemporary neighbors, leading

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Using oxygen stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel from animals butchered by humans at the site of Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, Max Planck researchers show that human groups belonging to an early wave of dispersal

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Already in the Bronze Age, pastoralists covered long distances across the Eurasian steppes – presumably thanks to their consumption of milk. The Yamnaya, one of the earliest pastoralist populations of the Eurasian steppe, began expanding

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer insight into life over 23,000 years ago. The footprints were formed in soft mud

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have studied how ancient people responded to catastrophic natural events and discovered ancient Maya people used volcanic ash to build some of their pyramids. According to Akira Ichikawa, an archaeologist at the University of

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient rulers had one thing in common with political leaders today – they were eager to brand themselves. Archaeologists have discovered Maya rulers put their personal stamp on monumental complexes. Early Maya cities featured monumental

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In the Middle Bronze Age (about 3,600 years ago or roughly 1650 BCE), the city of Tall el-Hammam was ascendant. Located on high ground in the southern Jordan Valley, northeast of the Dead Sea, the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and conservation scientists at Yale has found compelling new evidence for this conclusion

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Music is an intrinsic expression of cultural diversity and a fundamental element of identity, ritual symbolism, and daily social interaction. The study of material culture, and musical instruments in particular, represents a relevant and innovative

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international team describes ancient hand and footprints made deliberately which they argue represent art. Hand shapes are commonly found in prehistoric caves, usually, the hand is used as a stencil with pigment spread around the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient DNA extracted from human bones has rewritten early Japanese history by underlining that modern day populations in Japan have a tripartite genetic origin—a finding that refines previously accepted views of a dual genomic ancestry.

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – This summer, a tomb embedded in the rock by the main entrance to the San Tirso and San Bernabé Hermitage situated in the karst complex of Ojo Guareña (Merindad de Sotoscueva, Burgos) was excavated; its

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New research by archaeologists has described rare shell artifacts discovered at Calperum Station and Murrawong (Glen Lossie) on the Murray River in South Australia. The artifacts were found in sites known to archaeologists as shell middens during field

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily skewed by radiocarbon calibration curves and measurement uncertainty. And there’s never been