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In this post we present extracts from the very interesting and informative paper titled “The Transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in a Circum-Aegean Perspective: Concepts and Narratives“, by Agathe Reingruber. Continue reading “Concepts and Narratives on the Transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in the Aegean”
Researchers from Russia and the United States analyzed samples of obsidian volcanic glass from various Caucasus’ regions. It turned out that more than 70 thousand years ago, Neanderthals transferred this mineral to distances up to 250 kilometers and used it to manufacture tools. These findings help to understand how populations from different regions communicated in antiquity. Followingly, we present extracts from 3 relative publications. Continue reading “Neanderthal populations from different Caucasus regions evidently had strong social connections”
The Tholos Tomb of Acharnes (or Menidi, as it is known in the bibliography) was excavated in 1879 by the German Archaeological Institute of Athens. It is the best preserved Mycenaean vaulted tomb of Attica. It dates back to the 13th century. B.C. Continue reading “The Mycenean Tholos Tomb of Acharnes, Attica, Greece”
This post is dedicated to the exciting (Underwater) Archaeological discovery of tens of shipwrecks (58 so far) at the bottom of the Aegean Sea, at the Archipelago of Fourni (or Fournoi), Greece. Continue reading “Fourni (or Fournoi), Greece; the ancient shipwreck (58 discovered so far) capital of the world”
In this post we present extracts from three different publications which deal with the very interesting posibility that a number of Chinese monuments had been built with the use of a magnetic compass.
Continue reading “Chinese monuments oriented using a magnetic compass?”
In this post we present extracts from some very interesting recently published papers on Çatalhöyük, Turkey, one of the key early farming sites in the Old World. Continue reading “Çatalhöyük; what we have recently learned about one of the key early (7100–5950 calBC) farming sites in the Old World”
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