Artistic mediums certainly change. While modern humans have paint and paper, ancient humans had ochre and pebbles. However, both work well for finger painting, whether for Homo sapiens today or for Homo neanderthalensis thousands of years ago.According to a new study in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, a team of researchers may have discovered one of the oldest art objects adorned with a fingerprint from across Europe. The object, a pebble, was stamped with ochre by a Neanderthal aro ...read more
Vikings were undoubtedly masterful sailors, but even they needed a safe place to rest and evade the hazards of the seas. The pit stops on Viking voyages have mostly been lost to time due to limited archaeological evidence, but this hasn’t stopped one researcher from retracing the trade routes that Vikings embarked on. Greer Jarrett, an archaeologist at Lund University in Sweden, has spent the last few years searching for answers to verify how exactly Vikings traveled on the seas. Having condu ...read more
An archeological discovery from the Dra' Abu el-Naga area on Luxor's West Bank reveals three new tombs of prominent statesmen from Egypt's New Kingdom era (1550 B.C.E. to 1070 B.C.E.). Based on the inscriptions inside the tombs, the all-Egyptian research team identified the names and owner titles of the tombs. Further research is needed to help uncover more about who these owners were, said Mohamed Ismail Khaled, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, in a statement from the ...read more
A new study in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has made the shocking discovery that one of the most famous moments in British history never actually happened.The epic and brutal fight between a Roman legion and Britons that violently concluded the Iron Age is a key moment in British history. The battle took place at Maiden Castle Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, and the “war cemetery” that remained there is one of Britain’s most well-known archaeological discoveries. The story of brave Brit ...read more
Megalodon teeth have always been key to understanding the ancient marine predator. Fossilized teeth are all that remain to prove the existence of these massive sharks, and the name megalodon is from the Greek for “big tooth.”A new study, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, highlights the importance of the megalodon’s human-hand-sized teeth once again. Thanks to extracting and analyzing the traces of zinc left in the fossilized teeth, researchers now know that the megalodon’ ...read more
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