ancient archeology

DNA remnants of three separate Denisovan populations found in human genomes 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 13, 2019
The archaic hominins weren’t homogenous, and archaic humans weren’t shy, research suggests. Dyani Lewis reports.

By David Aragorn
Why our ancestors drilled holes in each other’s skulls 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 12, 2019
Thousands of years ago, people were performing a form of surgery called “trepanation” that involves boring holes through a person’s skull

By David Aragorn
New human species unearthed in island cave 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 11, 2019
Scientists have discovered the fossil remains of an extinct species of human in a cave in the Philippines.

By David Aragorn
Believe in Atlantis? These archaeologists want to win you back to science 0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- April 11, 2019
In February, the popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience referred to an idea made famous by some books and TV shows: that an image of the Mayan King K’inich Janaab’ Pakal, carved onto the lid of his sarcophagus when he died in 683 C.E., shows him taking off in a spaceship. Host Rogan was skeptical of the notion, which has been used to argue that extraterrestrial visitors seeded sophisticated ancient societies like the Maya. He asked what mainstream archaeologists made of it.

By David Aragorn
New Type of Arctic Dinosaur Discovered in Alaska 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 6, 2019
The duck-billed, crested lambeosaurine shows that a diverse array of dinos lived in the warmer but still harsh Arctic 70 million years ago

By David Aragorn
Rise of religion pre-dates Incas at Lake Titicaca 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 6, 2019
An ancient group of people made ritual offerings to supernatural deities near the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, about 500 years earlier than the Incas, according to an international team of researchers. The team’s findings suggest that organized religion emerged much earlier in the region than previously thought.

By David Aragorn
Dinosaur fossils kept secret for years show the day of killer asteroid 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 4, 2019
Research that had been kept secret for years that captured a fossilized snapshot of the day nearly 66 million years ago when an asteroid hit Earth, wiping out nearly all life on the planet, including the dinosaurs, has finally been released, shocking the scientific community.

By David Aragorn
Ancient teeth hint at mysterious human relative 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 3, 2019
The find adds to a growing number of fossils from China that don’t fit neatly in the existing human family tree.

By David Aragorn
The first known fossil of a Denisovan skull has been found in a Siberian cave 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 3, 2019
DNA evidence hints that the hominids interbred with humans as recently as 15,000 years ago

By David Aragorn
Story of most murderous people of all time revealed in ancient DNA 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 29, 2019
Starting 5000 years ago, the Yamnaya embarked on a violent conquest of Europe. Now genetic analysis tells their tale for the first time

By David Aragorn