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In this post we present selected parts from the excellent and very informative paper titled “Beyond frontiers: Ancient Rome and the Eurasian trade networks“, by Marco Galli (2016). Continue reading “Ancient Rome and the Eurasian trade networks”
In this post we present and analyze selected excerpts from Aeschylus‘ tragedy, “Persians“. Continue reading “Aeschylus: Persians and Greeks were of the same genous!”
In this post we present information on the very interesting issue of the “Levantine Aurignacian”. Continue reading “The “Levantine Aurignacian”; migration of a European population to the Near East during the Upper Palaeolithic”
Sulawesi is the world’s eleventh largest island and the biggest and probably oldest in Wallacea, the zone of oceanic islands between continental Asia and Australia. Continue reading “Cave art from Sulawesi, Indonesia ~40 kyr ago”
A team of University of Tübingen researchers has shown that Neanderthals sustained similar levels of head injuries to the earliest anatomically modern humans in Eurasia. This result contradicts previous views that Neanderthals were characterized by exceptionally high rates of trauma. This post is dedicated to this very interesting research. Continue reading “Neanderthals and early modern humans show similar levels of cranial injuries, study finds”
Research claims it has given the answers to a long-debated question among anthropologists, archaeologists and geneticists: when farmers first arrived in Europe, how did they interact with existing hunter-gatherer groups? Continue reading “Early farmers and hunter-gatherers co-existed and integrated in Europe for many years, study suggests”
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