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Researchers studying ancient corncobs found at a Native American archeological site have recovered a 1,000-year-old virus, the oldest plant virus ever reported. Continue reading “Oldest known plant virus found at ancient settlement”
Beginning more than 1.5 million years ago, early humans made stone handaxes in a style known as the Acheulean — the longest lasting tool-making tradition in prehistory. New research led by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage has documented an Acheulean presence in the Arabian Peninsula dating to less than 190,000 years ago, revealing that the Arabian Acheulean ended just before or at the same time as the earliest Homo sapiens dispersals into the region. Continue reading “Stone tools linked to ancient human ancestors in Arabia have surprisingly recent date”
Researchers investigating a cave in France have identified mysterious stone rings that were probably built by Neanderthals.
The discovery provides yet more evidence that we may have underestimated the capabilities of our evolutionary cousins. Continue reading “Neanderthal stone ring structures found in French cave (~175,000 years old)”
More than 2,500 years ago, horse riding nomads expanded their cultural realm throughout the Eurasian steppe from Southern Siberia to Eastern Europe. Continue reading “Satellite data exposes looting”
After radiocarbon dating of plant matter, wood and wood charcoal, scientists estimate that the presumed histories of several key indigenous sites in Canada, as relates to first contact with Europeans, are incorrect by about 50 to 100 years. The findings suggest that European trade goods previously used to date individual locations are not in fact good chronological markers and that the history of notable “contact-era” events in northeastern North America during the 15th to early 17th centuries may need to be revaluated. Continue reading “Rethinking the history related to indigenous sites in northeast North America”
Giant prehistoric ‘unicorns’ once wandered over the prairies of Central Asia. New research has shown that these so-called Siberian unicorns lived much longer than was believed, and probably did not become extinct until ‘just’ 39,000 years ago. Continue reading “Siberian ‘unicorns’ extinct much later than believed”
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