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A research team has found a copper band that indicates ancient Native Americans engaged in extensive trade networks spanning far greater distances than what has been previously thought. Continue reading “Native Americans 3,500 years ago were engaged in extensive trade networks (spanning more than 1,500 km) and across various regions”
For decades, researchers believed the Western Hemisphere was settled by humans roughly 13,500 years ago, a theory based largely upon the widespread distribution of Clovis artifacts dated to that time. Clovis artifacts are distinctive prehistoric stone tools so named because they were initially found near Clovis, New Mexico, in the 1920s but have since been identified throughout North and South America. Continue reading “Artifacts older-than-Clovis at the Gault site, Texas, USA”
In this post we present selected parts of the very interesting and informative paper titled “The Origins of Chinese Writing: the Neolithic Evidence“, by Paola Demattè. Continue reading “Writing in Neolithic China?”
Archaeological finds were located at the site of Eshta’ol during routine archaeological digs conducted ahead of a planned expansion of Route 38, the main access road to Beit Shemesh, Israel. One of the buildings is the oldest ever found in the area, and constitutes remarkable “evidence of man’s transition to permanent dwellings,” researchers said. Continue reading “Eshta’ol, Israel; urban planning at the beginning of the 8th millennium BCE”
In this post we present information on Franchthi cave, Argolis, Greece, extracted from three official publications. Continue reading “Franchthi cave, Greece; indications of acculturation rather than outright colonization by Neolithic farming groups migrating from the Near East”
In this post we present selected parts of the very interesting paper titled “Early art in the Urals: new research on the wooden sculpture from Shigir“, by Mikhail Zhilin et al. Continue reading “Prehistoric art in the Urals (Shigir); the oldest wooden monumental sculpture in the world”
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