La Fundación Palarq es una entidad privada y sin ánimo de lucro que se crea con la finalidad de apoyar las Misiones en Arqueología y Paleontología Humana Españolas en el extranjero, excluyendo Europa, dentro de una perspectiva que abarca desde la etapa paleontológica a las épocas prehistóricas y las históricas en interés monumental
Sweden’s Svante Paabo wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine (Reuters 10/03/2022)
Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries “concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”, the award-giving body said on Monday
ARCHAEOLOGISTS IDENTIFY OBSIDIAN MINES EXPLOITED BY THE PEOPLE OF TEŌTĪHUACĀN (Heritagedaily 09/30/2022)
Obsidian is produced from felsic lava, rich in the lighter elements such as silicon, oxygen, aluminium, sodium, and potassium. Due to the hard and brittle nature of the stone, it fractures to form extremely sharp edges, often used as cutting and piercing tools, instruments for worship, or for weapons manufacturing by the pre-hispanic groups living…
CACAO WAS NOT A FOOD EXCLUSIVE TO THE MAYA ELITE (Heritagedaily 09/29/2022)
The prevailing belief: Cacao was more available to, even controlled by, the society’s very upper echelons, royalty. Past efforts to identify cacao in ceramics focused on highly decorative vessels associated with elite ceremonial contexts — think ornate drinking vases — leading to assumptions about how cacao was distributed and who could access it. What about…
See the striking facial reconstruction of a Paleolithic woman who lived 31,000 years ago (Live Science 09/28/2022)
In 1881, archaeologists unearthed the skull of a human buried inside a cave in Mladeč, a village in what is now the Czech Republic. At the time, researchers dated the skull to about 31,000 years ago and classified the individual as male. But they were wrong about the Stone Age person’s sex, a new study…
Why did the Roman Empire split in two? (Live Science 09/27/2022)
An old adage states that Rome wasn’t built in a day, meaning that big projects take time to complete. The Roman Empire, as an example, was established gradually and grew over hundreds of years from a city-state to a colossal empire stretching from Britain to Egypt.
ROMAN MOSAIC RE-EXPOSED BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN FOLKESTONE (Heritagedaily 09/22/2022)
The mosaic is part of the central dining room from a large 2nd century villa complex situated on the cliffs overlooking Folkestone, England. Beneath the Roman foundations are traces of an earlier Iron Age settlement, occupied by native Britons centuries before the Roman invasion. The complex was first excavated by archaeologists in 1924, however, the…
ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNCOVER SARCOPHAGUS OF HIGH-RANKING OFFICIAL FROM REIGN OF RAMESES II (Heritagedaily 09/21/2022)
Excavations were led by Dr. Ola Al-Ajizi from the Faculty of Archaeology at Cairo University, part of a study over the 2021-2022 work season to excavate the areas around the ascending corridor of the pyramid of King Unas. The team found a burial chamber containing the sarcophagus of Ptah-em-uya, a high-ranking official who was the…
#47 • The Long Journey of New World Monkeys • Dr. Marcelo Tejedor
Meet Leakey Foundation grantee Dr. Marcelo Tejedor and learn about searching from Patagonia to the heart of the Amazon for the earliest fossil primates in South America.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER GIANT STONE JARS IN INDIA (Heritagedaily 09/13/2022)
Similar sites containing stone jars have been identified across India and Indonesia, with the most famous stone jar concentrations being found on the Xiangkhoang Plateau in Laos. Stone jar sites were first discovered in Northeast India in 1929 by James Philip Mills and John Henry Hutton near the village of Ndunglo in the North Cachar…