Ancient Archeology

Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Was Great for Bacteria 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- February 3, 2020
The smoldering crater left by the apocalyptic space rock became a nice home for blue-green algae within years of the impact.

By David Aragorn
Africans carry surprising amount of Neanderthal DNA 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 31, 2020
Source: Science Magazine For 10 years, geneticists have told the story of how Neanderthals—or at least their DNA sequences—live on in today’s Europeans, Asians, and their descendants. Not so in Africans, the story goes, because modern humans and our extinct cousins interbred only outside of Africa. A new study overturns that notion, revealing an unexpectedly

By David Aragorn
Researchers Drill Deep Into One of the Most Important Antarctica Glaciers 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 30, 2020
The melting of Thwaites Glacier already accounts for 4% of global sea-level rise.

By David Aragorn
Researchers Find Presolar Grains in Unusual Inclusion from Allende Meteorite 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- January 29, 2020
Scientists from Washington University, St. Louis, Caltech and the University of Chicago have found presolar grains — tiny bits of solid interstellar material formed before the Sun was born — in Curious Marie, a sample of the famous Allende meteorite.

By David Aragorn
Fossilized Footprints Show Neanderthals Climbing An Active Volcano 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- January 24, 2020
Local people called them “Ciampate del Diavolo” or the devil’s trail, as only a supernatural entity could leave its footprints in apparent solid rocks. Discovered in 2001, for archaeologists the devil’s trails site near the Italian town of Roccamonfina is a rare example of humanoid footprints preserved in volcanic rocks.

By David Aragorn
Extreme heat of Vesuvius eruption turned a man’s brain to ‘glass’0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- January 24, 2020
A man who died in Herculaneum during the historic Vesuvius eruption was found with an exploded skull and glass-like brain tissue.

By David Aragorn
A 3-D printed vocal tract lets an ancient mummy speak from beyond the grave 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 23, 2020
The replica reveals what the ancient Egyptian’s voice might have sounded like

By David Aragorn
An ancient aquatic system older than the pyramids has been revealed by the Australian bushfires 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- January 22, 2020
Extensive water channels built by indigenous Australians thousands of years ago to trap and harvest eels for food have been revealed after wildfires burned away thick vegetation in the state of Victoria.

By David Aragorn
Earth’s oldest known impact crater may tell us a lot about our planet’s frozen past 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- January 22, 2020
Yarrabubba Crater was blasted out by an asteroid or comet about 2.23 billion years ago.

By David Aragorn
How the dinosaur-killing asteroid primed Earth for modern life 0
- Ancient Archeology, Science & Technology
- January 18, 2020
Marine die-offs after the impact may have created opportunities for the life that survived around the globe, new data reveal.

By David Aragorn