We are entering a golden era of archaeological discoveries where technology will be at its core.
Today archaeologists are equipped with the newest technological tools that allow identifying hidden structures in a matter of hours. Laser scanners…
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3D technology reveals the mysterious Rongorongo language of Easter Island
Researchers have created a three-dimensional model of a tablet covered in the mysterious Rongorongo handwriting from Easter Island, revealing lost symbols that are invisible to the naked eye.
Rongorongo is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th…
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Face to face with the prehistoric inhabitants of El Argar
Our faces contain information about our family history and lifestyle. For example, certain facial traits can be passed down from parents to children for generations.
Is it therefore possible that the physical resemblances among a group of…
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life & culture on the International Space Station
In an out of this world study, space archaeologists are reconstructing life on the International Space Station (ISS) over the past two decades, to better understand space culture and get an inside look at how astronauts interact with their tools…
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Researchers present evidence that a cosmic impact destroyed a biblical city in the Jordan Valley
In the Middle Bronze Age (about 3600 years ago or roughly 1650 BCE), the city of Tall el-Hammam was ascendant.
Located on high ground in the southern Jordan Valley, northeast of the Dead Sea, the settlement in its time had become the largest…
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Archaeologists to bring the prehistoric landscape of Doggerland to life
A project led by the University of Bradford, involving 15 universities and 63 heritage collections, will bring the prehistoric landscape of Doggerland back to life using advanced mapping techniques.
Doggerland is a submerged land mass beneath what…
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Extreme volcanism did not cause the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous
A study published in the journal Geology rules out that extreme volcanic episodes had any influence on the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous.
The results confirm the hypothesis that it was a giant meteorite impact what caused…
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Prehistoric climate change repeatedly channelled human migrations across Arabia
New research shows that over the last 400,000 years, multiple pulses of increased rainfall transformed the generally arid Arabian Peninsula into a hospitable route for human population movements across Southwest Asia.
Recent research in Arabia…
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Pictograms are first written accounts of earthquakes in pre-Hispanic Mexico
The Codex Telleriano Remensis, created in the 16th century in Mexico, depicts earthquakes in pictograms that are the first written evidence of earthquakes in the Americas in pre-Hispanic times, according to a pair of researchers who have…
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Confirming the pedigree of uranium cubes from Nazi Germany’s failed nuclear program
During World War II, Nazi Germany and the U.S. were racing to develop nuclear technology. Before Germany could succeed, Allied forces disrupted the program and confiscated some of the cubes of uranium at the heart of it.
The ultimate fate of…
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