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.
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.
Digging is not just a game for children in hunter-gatherer groups (CENIEH 06/08/2022)
CENIEH researchers lead a new experimental energy study which concludes that the intensity of the physical effort and energy expenditure have a significant influence on performing tasks habitual for a young hunter-gatherer.
3400-year-old sunken city emerges from the Tigris River (Heritagedaily 06/01/2022)
A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists have excavated a 3400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city that has emerged in the Tigris River.
Severed head of Maya maize god unearthed in Palenque (Heritagedaily 06/01/2022)
Archaeologists from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) have discovered a stuccoed stone head of a Maya god associated with maize.
Famous rock art cave in Spain was used by ancient humans for more than 50,000 years (Phys.org 06/01/2022)
A cave in southern Spain was used by ancient humans as a canvas for artwork and as a burial place for over 50,000 years, according to a study published June 1, 2022, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by José Ramos-Muñoz of the University of Cadiz, Spain, and colleagues.
Archaeologists uncover cache of bronze statues and sarcophagi at Saqqara (Heritagedaily 05/30/2022)
Archaeologists from the Saqqara Archaeological Mission have revealed a large cache of bronze statues and sarcophagi discovered at the Saqqara Necropolis, Egypt.
Archaeologists unearth an Aztatlán burial site (Heritagedaily 05/30/2022)
Archaeologists from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) have discovered Aztatlán burials during construction works in the Sinaloa port of Mazatlan, Mexico.
