Los Millares- The Largets Known Fortified Neolithic Settlement in Europe
Los Millares- The Largets Known Fortified Neolithic Settlement in Europe Just 17km from Almería between Santa Fe de Mondujar y Gádor lies Los Millares, the largest known European fortified Neolithic settlement, dated c. 3,200-2,300 BC. The site includes a settlement and a cemetery with over 80 megalithic tombs. Three walls and an inner citadel with an …
Satellite Images Aided the Discovery of an Ancient Civilization Buried in the Amazon
Satellite Images Aided the Discovery of an Ancient Civilization Buried in the Amazon Long before the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, one of the world’s largest rainforests teemed with people who transformed the woods around them, according to archaeologists who have found new evidence of farms, settlements and roads buried beneath the flora of …
Melting Norwegian glacier releases 500-year-old perfectly preserved wooden box full of candles
Melting Norwegian glacier releases 500-year-old perfectly preserved wooden box full of candles Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a beeswax candle used to ᴀssist Vikings to find their farms in a 500-year-old wooden box discovered in a perfectly preserved form when a glacier in Norway melted. Archaeologists removed the тιԍнт lid of the pine box …
The Prehistoric Rock Art of Tᴀssili N’Ajjer, Algeria
The Prehistoric Rock Art of Tᴀssili N’Ajjer, Algeria Just Outside the Desert Oasis of Djanet, Algeria, there’s a national park brimming with pieces of the past. A trip through the alien-like landscape of Tᴀssili n’Ajjer is like stepping into an open-air art gallery, where the sandstone rock formations become canvases for more than 15,000 prehistoric …
Oldest Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found, 445 Million Years Old
Oldest Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found, 445 Million Years Old Few modern animals are as deserving of the тιтle “living fossil” as the lowly horseshoe crab. Seemingly unchanged since before the Age of Dinosaurs, these venerable sea creatures can now claim a history that reaches back almost half a billion years. In a collaborative research article …
Palaeontologists discover nearly complete dinosaur skeleton in China – fossil is ’70 per cent intact’
Palaeontologists discover nearly complete dinosaur skeleton in China – fossil is ’70 per cent intact’ Palaeontologists in southwest China have unearthed a fossil from the Jurᴀssic period that is 70 per cent intact and belongs to a dinosaur believed to be nearly 8 metres in length. The fossil, which dates back 180-million-years, was discovered in …
Ukraine discovers a 5,000-year-old megalithic Stonehenge like monument!
Ukraine discovers a 5,000-year-old megalithic Stonehenge like monument! Archaeological digs still reveal historical aspects that remain puzzling to some. Such is the case with these archaeologists who are on a mission in Ukraine in the village of Novooleksandrivka, about ten kilometres south of the city of Dnipro. According to them, they discovered a place where …
Prehistoric Teeth Pendants Worn in Ancient Dance 8,000 Years Ago Incite Body Movements
Prehistoric Teeth Pendants Worn in Ancient Dance 8,000 Years Ago Incite Body Movements “Ornaments composed of elk teeth suspended from or sown onto clothing emit a loud rattling noise when moving,” says auditory archaeologist and Academy of Finland Research Fellow Riitta Rainio from the University of Helsinki. “Wearing such rattlers while dancing makes it easier …
The Atlantic Ocean was known as the Ethiopian Ocean until the 19th century
The Atlantic Ocean was known as the Ethiopian Ocean until the 19th century Up to the 19th century, the southern part of the Atlantic Ocean was formally known as the Ethiopian/Aethiopian Sea in classical geographical works. This was the name that appeared on ancient maps, up to the 19th century. The roots of such etymology …
Humans Arrived in North America More Than 30,000 Years Ago, Study Suggests
Humans Arrived in North America More Than 30,000 Years Ago, Study Suggests According to an unexpected finding made by an Iowa State University researcher, the earliest people may have arrived in North America approximately 20,000 years earlier than previously thought. Andrew Somerville, an ᴀssistant professor of anthropology in world languages and cultures, says he and …