Britain’s oldest artwork may depict mammoths from a drowned land0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 28, 2020
These etchings are at least 15,000 years old.
These etchings are at least 15,000 years old.
An international team of archaeologists has found and studied 104 enigmatic stone structures called ‘mustatils’ in the southern part of the Nefud Desert in northern Arabia. They’ve also provided the first chronometric age estimate for this type of structure — a radiocarbon date of 5000 BCE — and described their landscape positions, architecture and associated culture.
It’s a good time to be a Costa Rican meteorite-hunter.
A mystery surrounding the space around our solar system is unfolding thanks to evidence of supernovae found in deep-sea sediments.
Paleontological research has confirmed a series of recently discovered fossils tracks are the oldest recorded tracks of their kind to date within Grand Canyon National Park.
They number in the hundreds and can be larger than an NFL football field.
Discovery from Middle Triassic sheds new light on ocean predators millions of years ago
According to a Science News report, archaeologist Lyn Wadley of the University of the Witwatersrand and her colleagues have dated bedding in South Africa’s Border Cave to 200,000 years ago.
They would have resembled Stonehenge-like monuments.
Researchers say the only way prey could be captured in this position is for the ant’s mouthparts to move in a direction “unlike that of all living ants”.