Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Neanderthals, our closest relatives, became extinct between 40,000 to 35,000 years ago. Since the discovery of the first Neanderthal fossil 165 years ago, scientists have learned more about Neanderthals—including their culture, sociality, ecology, diet, control

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The long-distance migrations of early Bronze Age pastoralists in the Eurasian steppe have captured widespread interest. But the factors behind their remarkable spread have been heavily debated by archaeologists. Now, a new study in Nature provides clues

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The monumental reliefs at the Camel Site in northern Arabia are unique: three rock spurs are decorated with naturalistic, life-sized carvings of camels and equids. In total, 21 reliefs have been identified. Based on similarities

Conny Waters- AncientPages.com – An international group of scientists has identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the Tibetan Plateau. The prints date back to the middle of the Pleistocene

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – On the left side of the grave, the male skeleton lays with one arm outstretched, holding the abdomen of the female skeleton by its side. The woman’s face is pressed into his shoulder, left hand

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Today, more than 10 percent of all global marriages occur among first or second cousins. While cousin-marriages are common practice in some societies, unions between close relatives are discouraged in others. Scientists from the Max

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – During the middle of the sixth century CE a dramatic transformation began in how the people of western Europe buried their dead. The transition from ‘furnished’ inhumation (those with grave goods to include jewelry, dress

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The human capacity for warfare and whether it is an inescapable part of human nature is a hot button issue at the heart of various disciplines like anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, and so on. Researchers have

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – As they watch the Olympic Games in Japan, a group of University of Toronto students is learning about the origins and historical significance of such athletic competitions, which began almost 3,000 years ago. The third-year

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that “stressed poetry,” the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already in use in the 2nd Century CE, 300 years earlier than

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Understanding the environmental conditions under which early humans dispersed out of Africa is important for understanding the factors that affected human evolution. This is a topical question that remains debated. A recent study prepared in

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It is still difficult to determine just how advanced the Neanderthals were but our extinct causing were much more sophisticated than previously thought. A recent study of the Heidenschmiede site has yielded many stone tools

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeology students from the Uppsala University have uncovered the remains of an Iron Age warrior in Sweden. The find made during excavations in Buttle Änge on the Swedish island Gotland has been described as “rather

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When archaeologists in Denmark say they have struck gold, they do really mean it! One of the biggest gold treasures ever discovered in Denmark has become an archaeological sensation. Scientists have unearthed almost a kilo’s

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – One of the most interesting archaeological sites is Qumran in West Jordan. This is where scientists in 1947 unearthed clay pots filled with ancient scrolls hidden in eleven caves. Today known as the Dead Sea