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Researchers have found unexpected fossil traces of a temperate rainforest near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the continent had an exceptionally warm climate in prehistoric times. Continue reading “Evidence for a 90-million-year-old rainforest near the South Pole”
Fuson (1969) and Carlson (1975) claim that Olmécs and Maya knew and used a (lodestone) compass for the orientation of pyramids, ceremonial and other important buildings. Continue reading “Olmécs and Maya used compass for the orientation of their buildings?”
In this post we present information on the dietary behaviours of Neanderthals extracted from several published papers. Continue reading “Dietary behaviours of Neanderthals”
In this post we present selected parts of the very interesting paper titled “Climate change at the 4.2 ka BP termination of the Indus valley civilization and Holocene south Asian monsoon variability“, by M. Staubwasseret al. Continue reading “Climate change 4.2 ka BP most likely responsible for the termination of the Indus valley civilization, study finds”
In this post we present information, extracted from four publications, which refer to the role of Cyprus in Mediterranean Trade during the Bronze Age. Continue reading “The role of Cyprus in Mediterranean Trade during the Bronze Age”
There are ∼35,000 presently extant European Megaliths – ancient monuments constructed from one or more blocks of stone – that remain all across Europe. Most of them come from the Neolithic period and the Copper Age. The majority of them are concentrated in coastal areas, while there are quite a few in the inland, too (e.g. Thrace -modern day Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey). Continue reading “Does the Megalithic Tradition have an ‘origin’?”
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