Indonesia: Archaeologists find world’s oldest animal cave painting (BBC News 01/14/21)
Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known animal cave painting in Indonesia – a wild pig – believed to be drawn 45,500 years ago.
First human culture lasted 20,000 years longer than thought (Phys.org 01/11/20)
Fieldwork led by Dr. Eleanor Scerri, head of the Pan-African Evolution Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany and Dr. Khady Niang of the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal, has documented the youngest known occurrence of the Middle Stone Age.
Finds in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge reveal how ancient humans adapted to change (The Conversation 7/01/21)
The ability to adapt to changing environments has deep roots. In a technology-driven world, people tend to conflate adaptability with technological change, especially when it comes to navigating adverse climates and places. But not every technological revolution is a result of environmental change.
Brain evolution may have allowed our cognitive process to extend to technology (NCYT 01/5/21)
Emiliano Bruner, a researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has just published a review article on the evolution of the human brain during the Middle Pleistocene offering a perspective on paleoneurology and functional craniology, with a model analyzing the spatial relationships between the anatomical elements of the brain-braincase system.
66 Roman Army camps in northern Spain shed light on infamous conquest (LiveScience 01/4/21)
A vast network of dozens of Roman Army camps have been discovered in a mountainous region of northern Spain.
Top 9 Discoveries in Human Evolution, 2020 Edition (Plos Sciconm 12/23/20)
Top 9 Discoveries in Human Evolution, 2020 Edition.
Food trade with South Asia revealed by Near East food remains (Phys.org 12/21/20)
Exotic Asian spices such as turmeric and fruits like the banana had already reached the Mediterranean more than 3000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. A team of researchers working alongside archaeologist Philipp Stockhammer at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (LMU) has shown that even in the Bronze Age, long-distance trade in food was already connecting…
Top 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2020 ( Heritage Daily 12/17/20)
HeritageDaily’s list of the 10 most prominent archaeological discoveries to hit the headlines in 2020.
Ancient Oil Lamp Find Sheds Light on Middle Eastern History ( Ancient Origins 12/15/20)
Archaeologists from Israel’s Antiquities Authority have announced an intriguing new discovery . In the city of Beit Shemesh, just 22 kilometers (14 miles) west of Jerusalem in Israel, they unearthed a ceramic workshop that contained hundreds of unused and beautifully preserved ceramic lamps, along with the stone lamp molds used to make them.
Gruesome ‘Tower of Skulls’ Discovery in Mexico Unearths Over 100 Aztec Sacrifices (Science Alert 12/13/20)
Mexican archaeologists said Friday they had found remains of 119 more people, including women and several children, in a centuries-old Aztec “tower of skulls” in the heart of the capital.
Child’s Bones Buried 40,000 Years Ago Solve a Longstanding Neanderthal Mystery (Science Alert 12/10/20)
We don’t know whether it was a boy or a girl. But this ancient child, a Neanderthal, only made it to about two years of age.
The oldest place name sign in the world (Idw News 12/3/20)
Together with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, researchers from the University of Bonn have deciphered the oldest place name sign in the world. An inscription from the time of the emergence of the Egyptian state in the late fourth millennium B.C. from the Wadi el Malik east of Aswan, which is still barely explored archaeologically,…
