Ancient Archeology

Site of biggest ever meteorite collision in the UK discovered 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- June 10, 2019
Scientists believe they have discovered the site of the biggest meteorite impact ever to hit the British Isles.

By David Aragorn
Paleontologists Find One-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Fungi in Canada 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 24, 2019
An international team of paleontologists has discovered 1,000- to 900-million-year-old microfossils of a fungus in estuarine shale of the Grassy Bay Formation in Arctic Canada. These multicellular organic-walled microfossils are more than half a billion years older than previously reported occurrences of fungi.

By David Aragorn
We probably don’t descend from Australopithecus sediba 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 23, 2019
There’s less than a 1% chance Australopithecus sediba led to the genus Homo.

By David Aragorn
University backtracks on disputed Voynich manuscript theory 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 22, 2019
Bristol distances itself from academic who claims to have solved century-old mystery

By David Aragorn
King Tut Wore Ancient, Meteor-Blasted Yellow Glass 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 22, 2019
About 29 million years ago, the sands of the western Egyptian desert melted and created tiny pieces of canary yellow glass — some of which ended up decorating King Tut’s pectoral (chest ornament).

By David Aragorn
Oldest Scandinavian human DNA found in ancient chewing gum 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 17, 2019
The first humans who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years ago left their DNA behind in ancient chewing gum, masticated lumps made from birch bark pitch. This is shown in a new study conducted at Stockholm University and published in Communications Biology.

By David Aragorn
Curtin planetary scientist unravels mystery of Egyptian desert glass 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- May 17, 2019
A Curtin University researcher has solved a nearly 100-year-old riddle by discovering that glass found in the Egyptian desert was created by a meteorite impact, rather than atmospheric airburst, in findings that have implications for understanding the threat posed by asteroids.

By David Aragorn
Humans Crawled Through a Cave 14,000 Years Ago. We Can Still See Their Perfectly Preserved Footprints.0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 16, 2019
About 14,000 years ago, a party of five barefoot people — two adults, one preteen and two children — walked and even crawled through a dark passageway in a cave, according to a new study that analyzed the hand- and footprints these individuals left behind.

By David Aragorn
Archaeological Discovery In Canada Leads To Groundbreaking Revelation 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 15, 2019
Deep within the Great Bear Rainforest, on the remote Triquet Island off Canada’s western coast, a group of archeologists made the discovery of a lifetime. They began digging without any expectations, but their incredible finding would ultimately bring an ancient folktale to life.

By David Aragorn
Ancient DNA suggests that some Northern Europeans got their languages from Siberia 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 14, 2019
Most Europeans descend from a combination of European hunter-gatherers, Anatolian early farmers, and Steppe herders. But only European speakers of Uralic languages like Estonian and Finnish also have DNA from ancient Siberians. Now, with the help of ancient DNA samples, researchers reporting in Current Biology on May 9 suggest that these languages may have arrived from Siberia by the beginning of the Iron Age, about 2,500 years ago, rather than evolving in Northern Europe.

By David Aragorn