Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – An international group of scientists has studied a genome sequence of a unique individual known as the Segorbe giant and his DNA reveals
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Using oxygen stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel from animals butchered by humans at the site of Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, Max Planck
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Already in the Bronze Age, pastoralists covered long distances across the Eurasian steppes – presumably thanks to their consumption of milk. The Yamnaya,
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The answer to climate change—or at least part of it—is blowing in the wind. “Early action will reap dividends,” said Rebecca Barthelmie, professor
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have studied how ancient people responded to catastrophic natural events and discovered ancient Maya people used volcanic ash to build some of
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – In the Middle Bronze Age (about 3,600 years ago or roughly 1650 BCE), the city of Tall el-Hammam was ascendant. Located on high
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Ancient rulers had one thing in common with political leaders today – they were eager to brand themselves. Archaeologists have discovered Maya rulers
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Music is an intrinsic expression of cultural diversity and a fundamental element of identity, ritual symbolism, and daily social interaction. The study of
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Neanderthals, our closest relatives, became extinct between 40,000 to 35,000 years ago. Since the discovery of the first Neanderthal fossil 165 years ago,
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – The long-distance migrations of early Bronze Age pastoralists in the Eurasian steppe have captured widespread interest. But the factors behind their remarkable spread
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – The monumental reliefs at the Camel Site in northern Arabia are unique: three rock spurs are decorated with naturalistic, life-sized carvings of camels
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international group of scientists has identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – On the left side of the grave, the male skeleton lays with one arm outstretched, holding the abdomen of the female skeleton by
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Today, more than 10 percent of all global marriages occur among first or second cousins. While cousin-marriages are common practice in some societies,
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – During the middle of the sixth century CE a dramatic transformation began in how the people of western Europe buried their dead. The
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that “stressed poetry,” the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Understanding the environmental conditions under which early humans dispersed out of Africa is important for understanding the factors that affected human evolution. This
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Archaeology students from the Uppsala University have uncovered the remains of an Iron Age warrior in Sweden. The find made during excavations in
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – When archaeologists in Denmark say they have struck gold, they do really mean it! One of the biggest gold treasures ever discovered in
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – One of the most interesting archaeological sites is Qumran in West Jordan. This is where scientists in 1947 unearthed clay pots filled with
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – It is still difficult to determine just how advanced the Neanderthals were but our extinct causing were much more sophisticated than previously thought.
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle..com – Two hundred fifty-two million years ago, much of life on planet Earth was dying. In an event that marked the end of the
