Pottery Analysis Offers Clues to Caribbean Island Trade Routes
Pottery Analysis Offers Clues to Caribbean Island Trade Routes With some 7,000 islands and cays and 7,000-year history of human habitation, the Caribbean Sea is practically synonymous with maritime travel. The very word “canoe” is derived from the term “kana:wa,” used by the Indigenous Arawakans of the Caribbean to describe their dugout vessels. Without clear …
Australia’s first marine Aboriginal archaeological site questioned
Australia’s first marine Aboriginal archaeological site questioned A new study from The University of Western Australia has challenged earlier claims that Aboriginal stone artefacts discovered off the Pilbara coast in Western Australia represent Australia’s first undisturbed underwater archaeological site. The original findings were made in a study published in 2020 in PLOS ONE, by a team …
Enduring Mystery Surrounds the Ancient Site of Puma Punku
Enduring Mystery Surrounds the Ancient Site of Puma Punku High up the Bolivian altiplano,’ south of Lake тιтicaca and the ancient complex of Tiahuanaco, we find the ancient ruins of Puma Punku. Believed to have been erected by the ancient Tiwanaku culture in the bronze age, between 1,000 and 2,000 years ago, the ancient site …
Possible Medieval Children’s Cemetery Found in Southern Turkey
Possible Medieval Children’s Cemetery Found in Southern Turkey A furnace for commercial production and a child’s grave with glᴀss bracelets and gifts inside has been found for the first time during this year’s excavations in the ancient city of Kelenderis, established on the Mediterranean coast in the southern province of Mersin 2,800 years ago. Located …
Indian Farmer Discovers 4,000-year-old Copper Weapons Buried Under a Field
Indian Farmer Discovers 4,000-year-old Copper Weapons Buried Under a Field We know India is a rich country when it comes to its heritage and culture. Although a lot of evidence has been lost, through destruction, loot or other reasons, findings from time to time prove that indeed India is a heritage-rich country. It has given …
Ancient microbes may help us find extraterrestrial life forms
Ancient microbes may help us find extraterrestrial life forms Using light-capturing proteins in living microbes, scientists have reconstructed what life was like for some of Earth’s earliest organisms. These efforts could help us recognize signs of life on other planets, whose atmospheres may more closely resemble our pre-oxygen planet. The earliest living things, including bacteria …
6,000-Year-Old Settlement Found Outside Stonehenge Could Rewrite British History
6,000-Year-Old Settlement Found Outside Stonehenge Could “Rewrite British History” The culture that built Stonehenge might be much older than previously thought. In research that could “rewrite” long-established British history, University of Buckingham archaeologists have discovered a 6,000-year-old Mesolithic settlement located close to the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge. The discovery of the site, which predates Stonehenge …
Timber From 17th-Century Spanish Shipwreck Discovered In Caves Off Oregon’s Coast
Timber From 17th-Century Spanish Shipwreck Discovered In Caves Off Oregon’s Coast In 1693, the Santo Cristo de Burgos, a Manila galleon loaded with silk, porcelain and beeswax, set sail from the Philippines on a trading expedition to Mexico. But the ship—and its valuable cargo—never reached its destination. Instead, the vessel ended up shipwrecked off the …
Mummified remains of a 30,000-year-old baby mammoth found in Canadian gold fields
Mummified remains of a 30,000-year-old baby mammoth found in Canadian gold fields A gold miner found a mummified baby woolly mammoth in the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin Traditional Territory in Yukon, Canada. According to a press release from the local government, the female baby mammoth has been named Nun cho ga by the First Nation Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in elders, which …
Pompeii: Ancient pregnant tortoise surprises archaeologists
Pompeii: Ancient pregnant tortoise surprises archaeologists When Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago Pompeii’s ancient residents were frozen in place by ash. So too it turns out we’re the city’s flora and fauna – including a pregnant tortoise with her egg. Archaeologists found the reptile’s remains buried under ash and rock where it had …