New study shows how the ancient world adapted to climate change (Phys.org 06/28/2022)
A new study of the ancient world of Anatolia—now Turkey—shows how they adapted to climate change but offers a warning for today’s climate emergency.
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
Scientists uncover traces of fire-use 800,000 years ago (Heritagedaily 06/27/2022)
Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science have been able to detect nonvisual traces of fire dating back at least 800,000 years, one of the earliest known examples for the controlled use of fire.
Secret ancient Andean passageways may have been used in rituals involving psychedelics (Live Science 06/27/2022)
Hidden passageways used by ancient Andean culture opened for the first time in 3,000 years.
Fossils in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ may be more than a million years older than previously thought (EurekAlert 06/27/22)
The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found.
Roman sanctuary discovered in the Netherlands (Heritagedaily 06/22/2022)
Archaeologists have discovered a Roman sanctuary near the UNESCO World Heritage Roman Limes in Gelderland, Netherlands.
600,000-year-old evidence of Britain’s early inhabitants (Heritagedaily 06/22/2022)
Archaeologists have unearthed 600,000-year-old evidence of Britain’s early inhabitants near Canterbury, England.
Massive marble head found at Antikythera Shipwreck (Heritagedaily 06/20/2022)
Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a massive marble head at the Antikythera Shipwreck in Greece, the site where the Antikythera mechanism was previously discovered in 1901.
1,700-year-old Korean genomes show genetic heterogeneity in Three Kingdoms period Gaya (Phys.org 06/21/2022)
An international team led by The University of Vienna and the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in collaboration with the National Museum of Korea has successfully sequenced and studied the whole genome of eight 1,700-year-old individuals dated to the Three Kingdoms period of Korea (approx. 57 BC–668 AD).
Archaeologists find Viking Age shipyard (Heritagedaily 06/15/2022)
Archaeologists excavating at Birka on the island of Björkö, Sweden, have discovered a Viking Age shipyard.
Study of the internal vascular system of the skull in American populations of the late Holocene (CENIEH 06/14/2022)
This is a study coordinated by the CENIEH paleoneurologist Emiliano Bruner, which analyzes the vascular differences among skulls from populations native to the southernmost regions of South America.
‘Homo erectus’ from Gongwangling could have been the earliest population in China (CENIEH 06/13/2022)
The CENIEH has participated in a study of the cranial remains found at the Chinese site of Gongwangling, whose results suggest that Asia could have been settled by successive waves of the species Homo erectus at different moments in the Pleistocene.
The Prehistoric weapons made from crystal (Heritagedaily 06/10/2022)
In several Late Prehistoric Iberian sites across Western Europe, a tradition emerged using rock crystals to fashion micro-blades, arrow heads and daggers.