Ancient Archeology

Archaeologists find vast network of Amazon villages laid out like the cosmos 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 9, 2020
Laser and satellite technology revealed more than 35 villages.

By David Aragorn
Revealed: Isaac Newton’s attempts to unlock secret code of pyramids 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 8, 2020
Unpublished notes show he believed ancient structures held key to the apocalypse

By David Aragorn
Newly-Discovered Long-Necked Dinosaur Survived Early Jurassic Global Warming 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 1, 2020
Paleontologists in Argentina have identified a new species of eusauropod (true sauropod) dinosaur that lived 179 million years ago, just after the mysterious disappearance of non-eusauropod sauropodomorphs.

By David Aragorn
Genetic research reveals Neanderthals could tolerate smoke, plant toxins 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 1, 2020
The idea that modern humans displaced Neanderthals because they were better protected against toxins from smoke is now under fire. An earlier study that put forward this suggestion has now been refuted by genetic research by scientists from Leiden and Wageningen. This new research was published in Molecular Biology and Evolution on 24 November.

By David Aragorn
Atom smasher unearths surprises hidden with 2000-year-old mummy 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 28, 2020
Thanks to a bit of help from a particle accelerator, scientists have discovered an unusual amulet interred with a 2000-year-old mummy.

By David Aragorn
Where Was the Birthplace of Modern Humans?0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 24, 2020
As ancient remains are uncovered and dated, archeologists expand their search for the evolutionary birthplace of Homo sapiens, and debate whether such a place exists.

By David Aragorn
How massive long-necked dinosaurs rose to rule the Jurassic herbivores 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 18, 2020
Volcanic activity may have altered plant life and ushered in rise of dinosaur giants

By David Aragorn
Curiosity about the cat – who drew a giant feline on a hillside on Peru?0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 17, 2020
What baffles modern viewers about the Nazca Lines is their scale. These sprawling geoglyphs are so large that they are difficult to perceive from the ground. Their incomprehensible dimensions have led some to peddle racist conspiracy theories that they were created by aliens (as if it were easier to believe in aliens than to attribute these feats to Indigenous American societies). The key to understanding one recently rediscovered geoglyph, however, lies in much smaller works of art.

By David Aragorn
The fossil of a duckbill dinosaur has been found on the ‘wrong’ continent 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 11, 2020
The final chapter of dinosaur history is a tale stretching across two very different worlds, each a vast supercontinent dominated by its own unique mix of predators and herbivores.

By David Aragorn
Half-billion-year-old microfossils may yield new knowledge of animal origins 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 11, 2020
When and how did the first animals appear? Science has long sought an answer to this question. Uppsala University researchers and colleagues in Denmark have now jointly found, in Greenland, embryo-like microfossils up to 570 million years old, revealing that organisms of this type were dispersed throughout the world. The study is published in Communications Biology.

By David Aragorn