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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New details about tuberculosis’ evolutionary history in ancient South America point to a complex web of disease transmission in the pre-colonial period, researchers
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists found evidence of ancient hybrid camels during the restoration of the so-called Temple of Allat at Hatra (second century AD). The temple
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Unguja Ukuu is a small settlement on Unguja island (Zanzibar Island), in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It is an archaeological site that has yielded abundant artifacts and evidence of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Cut into several boulders located within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, in western Nevada, the petroglyphs date to at least 10,500 years ago and
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Remains of a large administrative facility from the First Intermediate Period were uncovered during an excavation carried out by an Austrian-Egyptian mission led
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery was made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Nowhere else are so many Neolithic pile dwellings known as around the Alps. However, how this particular construction boom got its start is
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization were both urban civilizations with large, densely populated and planned cities, 6000–1990 BCE. A new thesis in archaeology points
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - How did Baroque period artists/sculptors go about their craft? For the first time, researchers have performed a forensic anthropological analysis of a marble
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study has confirmed saltwater drowning as the cause of death for a Neolithic man whose remains were found in a mass
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This important discovery sheds much light on cacao cultivation, religion, power in the region. For as much as modern society worships chocolate, cacao
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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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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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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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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 - 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 - 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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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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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The oldest unequivocal evidence of upright walking in the human lineage are footprints discovered at Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1978, by paleontologist Mary Leakey
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya had stone temples and palaces in the rainforest of Central America, along with dynastic records of royal leaders carved in stone,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The third millennium BCE is a highly dynamic period in the prehistory of Europe and western Asia, characterized by large-scale social and political
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In ancient times, the Assyrians were one of the Near East’s superpowers, controlling a landmass that stretched from Iran to Egypt. They accomplished
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An impressive hoard of silver coins dating to the Hasmonean period (126 BCE) was unearthed several years ago during archaeological excavations conducted by the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Magnesia, located in the western province of Aydın’s Germencik district, have brought to light the entrance gate of the
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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,
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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,
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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
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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,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A continuous rise in the global population has led to fears that conflicts and war will become more frequent as resources dwindle. But
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Researchers undertook a zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of the Neanderthal Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid), some 76,000 years old, whose results
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent archaeogenetic studies have shown that human movements like migrations and expansions played a major role in driving the spread of cultures and genes
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists examining the Herculaneum skeletal remains of the victims of Vesuvius that erupted on the morning of August 24, 79 AD, and broke its centuries-long
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - International research by Tel Aviv University, the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, and the University of California San Diego uncovered
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - King's research has helped uncover new evidence showing the portrayal of the execution of captives in the arena by throwing them to lions.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Middle East region is important to understand human evolution and migrations but is underrepresented in genomic studies. Whole-genome sequencing efforts around the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In archaeometallurgy, the study of ancient metal, archaeologists have historically taken a top-down approach, meaning that the jewelry, tools, weapons, and other artifacts
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers analyzed human tissues of 29 individuals (26 urn cremations and 3 inhumations) from Szigetszentmiklós-Ürgehegy, one of the largest Middle Bronze Age urn
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists search for clues to identify a mystery horseman after carved relief was uncovered at Roman Vindolanda, Hadrian’s Wall. A beautifully carved sandstone
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have identified remains of a new, previously unknown type of 'Homo' who lived in the region at the Nesher Ramla site side
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The University of North Florida archaeology team is fairly confident they have located the lost Indigenous Northeast Florida community of Sarabay, a settlement
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Over the last 200 years, Antarctic narratives have been of those carried out by predominantly European male explorers. However, a research project led
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