A Child of darkness (EurekAlert 04/11/21)
The first partial skull of a child of Homo naledi begins to give us insight into all stages of life of this remarkable species
Not even extreme cold stopped the first modern humans from settling in Iberia’s interior (Phys.org 03/11/21)
In western Europe, the contested region is the Iberian Peninsula, considered the last region to be occupied by modern humans as they spread throughout Eurasia
Archaeologists have mapped the capital of the Mongolian Empire (Heritage Daily 03/11/21)
Archaeologists have mapped Karakorum, the capital of the Mongolian Empire using advanced geophysical methods
Archaeologists discover complete Maya canoe in southern Mexico cenotes (Heritage Daily 31/10/21)
Underwater Archaeologists have discovered a Maya canoe during works for the Maya Train, a multi-billion-dollar project through five southern Mexican states
The surprising origins of the Tarim Basin mummies (Phys.org 27/10/21)
To their great surprise, the researchers found that the Tarim Basin mummies were not newcomers to the region at all, but rather appear to be direct descendants of a once widespread Pleistocene population that had largely disappeared by the end of the last Ice Age
Study finds nearly 500 ancient ceremonial sites in southern Mexico (Phys.org 26/10/21)
The find transforms previous understanding of Mesoamerican civilization origins and the relationship between the Olmec and the Maya people
Oldest known footprints of pre-humans identified in Crete (Heritage Daily 24/10/21)
Footprints left by pre-humans, dating back at least six million years ago has been identified by researchers on the island of Crete
First Viking settlement in North America dated to exactly 1000 years ago (Science 20/10/21)
Felled trees and cosmic rays reveal when L’Anse aux Meadows was occupied
Ancient DNA reveals the long-sought homeland of modern horses (Science 20/10/21)
Bronze Age riders trotted out their new mounts in the western Eurasian steppe
Small-scale foragers left more than footprints on the landscape (Phys.org 19/10/21)
Penn State researchers have used satellite data to identify areas in coastal southwest Madagascar where indigenous foragers altered their surroundings
Diver discovers crusader sword (Heritage Daily 18/10/21)
A diver swimming off the HaCarmal coast in Haifa, Israel, has discovered a crusader sword dating from 900 years ago
The oldest Acheulean evidence in North Africa (Phys.org 07/10/21)
A new work published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, led by the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) in collaboration with the Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (CNRPAH) (Algeria), describes the most recent advances in the current investigation performed in the valley of Oued Boucherit, located about 20 km…
