Ancient Archeology

Mystery of 2 million-year-old stone balls solved 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 18, 2020
Here’s how ancient cave dwellers used these stone balls.

By David Aragorn
Five-thousand-year-old Egyptian tomb opens for virtual tour 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 17, 2020
Egypt’s classical wonders are off limits but a royal tomb is one of four sites where 3D modelling gives us a fascinating glimpse of antiquity

By David Aragorn
Synchrotron X-ray sheds light on some of the world’s oldest dinosaur eggs 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 17, 2020
Dinosaur ‘Easter eggs’ reveal their secrets in 3D thanks to X-rays and high-powered computers

By David Aragorn
Lost Viking ‘highway’ revealed by melting ice 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 17, 2020
1,000-year-old horseshoes, sleds, and tools are emerging from a shrinking ice patch in Norway, telling the story of the rise and fall of a mountain pass and the people who traveled along it.

By David Aragorn
Scientists digitally reconstruct skulls of dinosaurs in fossilised eggs 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 11, 2020
Research on Massospondylus carinatus embryos sheds new light on animals’ development

By David Aragorn
A study compares the parietal lobes in Neanderthals and modern humans 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 10, 2020
The Paleoneurobiology Group of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), led by Emiliano Bruner, has just published a morphological analysis of the brains of Neanderthals and modern humans in the Journal of Human Evolution, whose results suggest that the more rounded shape of modern human brains is due in part to larger and bulgier parietal lobes, on average.

By David Aragorn
Mysterious human ancestor finds its place in our family tree 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 9, 2020
When it comes to deciphering our ancient family tree, DNA from fossils is the new gold standard. But after about half a million years, even the best-preserved DNA degrades into illegibility, leaving the story of our early evolution shrouded in mystery. A new study of proteins taken from the tooth of an enigmatic human ancestor reveals their rough place in the family tree—and shows how ancient proteins can push beyond the limits of DNA.

By David Aragorn
Fossil trove sheds light on ancient antipodean ecology 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 7, 2020
The oldest known animals and plants preserved in amber from Southern Gondwana are reported in Scientific Reports this week. Gondwana, the supercontinent made up of South America, Africa, Madagascar, India, Antarctica and Australia, broke away from the Pangea supercontinent around 200 million years ago. The findings further our understanding of ecology in Australia and New Zealand during the Late Triassic to mid-Paleogene periods (230-40 million years ago).

By David Aragorn
Oldest ever human genetic evidence clarifies dispute over our ancestors 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 3, 2020
Genetic information from an 800,000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results from the University of Copenhagen shed light on one of the branching points in the human family tree, reaching much further back in time than previously possible.

By David Aragorn
Antarctica was covered in rainforests when dinosaurs roamed Earth 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 2, 2020
Antarctica was covered in rainforest in the time of the dinosaurs, according to a new study.

By David Aragorn