Population genomics of the Viking world (Nature 09/16/20)
The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age (about AD 750–1050) was a far-flung transformation in world history.
These 120,000-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans in Arabia ( Science 09/17/20)
One day about 120,000 years ago, a few humans wandered along the shore of an ancient lake in what is now the Nefud Desert in Saudi Arabia.
2,600-year-old wine ‘factory’ unearthed in Lebanon ( National Geographic 09/14/20)
The oldest press found in the country was used by ancient Phoenicians to manufacture vintages once adored around the Mediterranean.
Discovery of 200,000-year-old beds throws light on the complex behaviour of ancient humans (Scroll.in 09/13/20)
Research suggests they understood the benefits of using ash underneath the grass to repel insects and pests.
New fossil ape is discovered in India (Phys.org 09/10/20)
A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape, the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon.
Does the Culture-of-Death Predate the Neanderthals and Modern Humans? (Heritage Daily 09/07/20)
All societies existing today possess some kind of funerary culture, and this is one of the behaviors that takes us closest to how complex the human mind is.
First Temple Period Palace Discovered Under The Heart Of Old Jerusalem (Ancient Origins 09/04/20)
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have announced the discovery of several dozen stone artifacts that date back to the First Temple Period, over 2500 years ago.
An ancient whistle was crafted from a human thigh bone (Nature 09/01/20)
Prehistoric people kept the bones of relatives and friends for generations as relicts.
The oldest known cremation in the near east dates to 7000 BC (Phys.org 08/12/20)
Ancient people in the Near East had begun the practice of intentionally cremating their dead by the beginning of the 7th millennium BC, according to a study published August 12, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Fanny Bocquentin of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and colleagues.
Lunch Break Science # 10 | Ainash Childebayeva
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Europe’s earliest bone tools found in Britain (BBC News 08/12/20)
Archaeologists say they’ve identified the earliest known bone tools in the European archaeological record.