Prehistoric people created art by firelight (HeritageDaily 04/20/2022)
A study of 50 engraved stones unearthed in France has revealed that our early ancestors probably created intricate artwork by firelight.
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
How did visitors experience the domestic space in Pompeii? (Phys.org 04/06/2022)
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used virtual reality and 3D eye-tracking technology to examine what drew the attention of the visitors when entering the stunning environment of an ancient Roman house. The team recreated the House of Greek Epigrams in 3D and tracked the gaze of study participants as they viewed the home.
Origins of the Avars elucidated with ancient DNA (Phys.org 01/04/22)
A multidisciplinary research team of geneticists, archeologists and historians, including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, obtained and studied the first ancient genomes from the most important Avar elite sites discovered in contemporary Hungary
Mysterious giant stone jars found in India (Australian National University 30/03/22)
Giant mysterious jars that may have been used for burial rituals have been unearthed across four new sites in Assam, India
Direct cosmogenic nuclide dating of Olduvai lithic industry (Phys.org 31/03/22)
Toshiyuki Fujioka and Alfonso Benito-Calvo, researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have recently published a paper in the Journal of Human Evolution with the results of burial dating using the cosmogenic nuclide isochron method, applied for the first time directly to the lithic industry of the Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
Tools reveal patterns of Neandertal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula (Phys.org 30/03/22)
Neandertal populations in the Iberian Peninsula were experiencing local extinction and replacement even before Homo sapiens arrived, according to a study published March 30, 2022 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Joseba Rios-Garaizar of the Archaeological Museum of Bilbao, Spain and colleagues
Bedfordshire A428 dig: Evidence of Roman beer production found (BBC 30/03/22)
Archaeologists have identified evidence of 2,000-year-old beer production at a site of a road improvement scheme
Archaeologists locate ancient Guanches caves in Tenerife (Heritage Daily 29/03/22)
Archaeologists have located caves from the Guanches culture, the indigenous inhabitants of the Canary Islands