An international team of researchers have provided new insight into the burial rituals of Çatalhöyük, considered the “oldest city in the world”.
Çatalhöyük is an ancient proto city from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, located on…
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Well-preserved fossils could be consequence of past global climate change
Climate change can affect life on Earth. According to new research, it can also affect the dead.
A study of exceptionally preserved fossils led by a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin has found that rising global temperatures…
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A possible Neolithic crime scene in Serbia
In 1931, Serbian archaeologist Miloje Vasić discovered a pit containing human skeletal remains whilst researching the Vinča-Belo Brdo archaeological site in the suburbs of Belgrade, Serbia.
In his diary, Vasić remarked the discovery as “an…
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Mummification in Europe may be older than previously thought
A multi-national study of the Sado Valley in Portugal suggests that mummification in Europe may be older than previously thought.
The study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology, suggests that European Mesolithic peoples may have been…
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Acoustic remote sensing reveals sunken Roman city of Baia
NORBIT Subsea and 2BControl, in collaboration with the Institute of Heritage Science of the Italian National Research Council, have conducted a study of the partially submerged Roman city of Baia in the Gulf of Naples, Italy.
Baia was a…
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Archaeologists find evidence of the first successful ear surgery 5,300 years ago
A team from the University of Valladolid have published in the journal ‘Scientific Reports’, evidence of the first successful ear surgery from excavations conducted at the ‘El Pendón’ dolmen located in Reinoso, Northern Spain.
The study…
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a black hole spins on its side
Researchers from the University of Turku, Finland, found that the axis of rotation of a black hole in a binary system is tilted more than 40 degrees relative to the axis of stellar orbit. The finding challenges current theoretical models of black…
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African man buried in Stone Age site in Portugal
An African man who lived just 350 years ago was buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira in Portugal.
This was very surprising because Amoreira and other midden sites in the Muge region are well known by archaeologists for the cemeteries…
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Forensic test confirms Neolithic fisherman died by drowning in the sea
A new study has confirmed saltwater drowning as the cause of death for a Neolithic man whose remains were found in a mass grave on the coast of Northern Chile.
A team of researchers developed an enhanced version of a modern forensic test to solve…
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Heritage sites in Africa threatened by climate change
Heritage of Outstanding and Universal Value located along the African coast is at risk from climate change.
A global team of climate risk and heritage experts, where Dr Nicholas Simpson from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) African Climate…
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