Study: Anatolian hunter-gatherers smelted copper 9,000 years ago
An analysis suggests the copper was exposed to temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees celsius, indicating a much more advanced ...
Climate change and prehistoric human populations: Study finds eastward shift of settlement areas at end of last Ice Age
A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...
COVID modelling reveals new insights into ancient social distancing – podcast
Anthropologist Alex Bentley tells The Conversation Weekly about his research how modelling the spread of COVID sparked new ...
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Seeing humanity's transition from hunting to farming as a cultural shift
Using a mathematical model, researchers have shed new light on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies. Rather than focusing exclusively on external factors, they looked at internal ...
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Divers Just Found 7,000-Year-Old Canoes At A Sunken City In A Lake Just North Of Rome
Divers exploring the remains of the sunken city of La Marmotta at the bottom of Lake Bracciano just north of Rome have ...
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Southern Romania: Construction site unveils human settlements dating from Neolithic period
Archaeologists from the Buzău County Museum, in southern Romania, have discovered 31 human settlements on the construction ...
Passage to Barabar: Iron ore trove in backyard led to prosperity of ancient empires, research shows
Scholars have for decades debated the source of the iron ore and sites of the foundries that made the implements that created ...