The 10 Biggest Archaeology Discoveries of 2019 (LiveScience 12/31/19)
Live Science takes a look at 10 of the biggest archaeology discoveries that emerged this year.
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
Palace Discovered at Ancient Maya City of Kuluba (Archaeology 12/27/19)
The Guardian reports that a team of archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History have unearthed the remains of a six-room palace at the site of Kuluba in northeast Yucatan.
Homo erectus’ last known appearance dates to roughly 117,000 years ago (ScienceNews 12/19/19)
New evidence helps resolve a debate over how long ago the hominid survived in what’s now Indonesia.
Easter Island’s Moai Enigma Finally Solved? (Ancient Origins 125/15/19)
Van Tilburg and her team, working with geoarchaeologist and soils specialist Sarah Sherwood, believe they have found scientific evidence of that long-hypothesized meaning thanks to careful study of two particular Moai excavated over five years in the Rano Raraku quarry on the eastern side of the Polynesian island.
Is this cave painting humanity’s oldest story? (Nature 11/12/19)
Indonesian rock art dated to 44,000 years old seems to show mythological figures in a hunting scene.
Mysterious stone-carved objects discovered in ancient archaeology dig (The Press Journal 12/9/19)
Archaeologists in Orkney have discovered an “amazing” series of ancient mysterious stone-carved objects – measuring in at less than 20 inches high.
‘Only complete’ 1,700-year-old Roman egg at Aylesbury dig (BBC NEWS 12/6/19)
The only complete chicken’s egg from Roman Britain is a “genuinely unique discovery”, according to an expert.
From nomadic hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers and ranchers
Changes in the lifestyles of nomadic hunter-gatherers who became sedentary farmers and stockbreeders were decisive for human history. Between 14,000 and 9,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers began to live in sedentary villages. These changes took place, for the first time, in the Middle East, in the current countries of Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and…
Infrared images reveal hidden tattoos on Egyptian mummies (Science News 12/2/19)
The images of eyes, crosses and more on 7 females may challenge ideas about the practice.
Mummified lions and crocodiles unearthed by archeologists in huge Egyptian tomb (Daily Star 11/23/19)
Amazed officials hope the rare discovery of mummified animals, including large wild cats and birds, will boost tourism for a new museum opening in 2020 in Egypt.
