Based on research at White Pond near Elgin, South Carolina, archaeologists present new evidence of a controversial theory that suggests an extraterrestrial body crashing to Earth almost 13,000 years ago …read more Source:: Science
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11,500-year-old animal bones in Jordan suggest early dogs helped humans hunt
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•11,500 years ago in what is now northeast Jordan, people began to live alongside dogs and may also have used them for hunting, a new study shows. The archaeologists suggest …read more Source:: Science
Did humans leave Africa earlier than previously thought?
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•Ancient tools and bones discovered in China by archaeologists suggest early humans left Africa and arrived in Asia earlier than previously thought. …read more Source:: Science
Archaeologists discover a 1,000-year-old mummy in Peru
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•Archaeologists have completed a significant excavation in Pachacamac, Peru, where they have discovered an intact mummy in especially good condition. Pachacamac’s status as a Pre-Colombian pilgrimage site under the Inca …read more Source:: Science
Archaeologists say they may have discovered one of the earliest examples of a ‘crayon’
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•Archaeologists say they may have discovered one of the earliest examples of a ‘crayon’ — possibly used by our ancestors 10,000 years ago for applying color to their animal skins …read more Source:: Science
Archaeologists find earliest evidence of winemaking
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•Excavations in the Republic of Georgia have uncovered evidence of the earliest winemaking anywhere in the world. The discovery dates the origin of the practice to the Neolithic period around …read more Source:: Science
Amazon farmers discovered the secret of domesticating wild rice 4,000 years ago
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•Amazonian farmers discovered how to manipulate wild rice so the plants could provide more food 4,000 years ago, long before Europeans colonized America, archaeologists have discovered. …read more Source:: Science
Archaeologists uncover ancient trading network in Vietnam
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•A team of archaeologists has uncovered a vast trading network which operated in Vietnam from around 4,500 years ago up until around 3,000 years ago. …read more Source:: Science
Archaeologists put sound back into a previously silent past
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•Many attempts to explain how past people experienced their wider world have focused on sight at the expense of sound, but researchers have now developed a tool that puts sound …read more Source:: Science
Archaeologists study earliest recorded human burial site in Ireland
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•Archaeologists have shed new light on the belief systems of early Mesolithic hunter-gatherers after analyzing cremated remains and artifacts given as grave offerings from the earliest recorded human burial site …read more Source:: Science