Deep-sea hiatus record reveals orbital pacing by 2.4 Myr eccentricity grand cycles
prehistory  ocean  space  weird 
4 days ago by andrewducker
There's a fascinating discussion in this article about who "the Celts" were
prehistory  Europe  language  society 
4 weeks ago by andrewducker
Scientists found a 900m Stone Age hunting wall submerged in the Baltic Sea
prehistory  archeology 
5 weeks ago by andrewducker
How to make Neolithic flatbread
prehistory  cooking  turkey 
5 weeks ago by andrewducker
Who Are Western Europeans? New Study Reveals True Origins (three waves of colonisation)
europe  prehistory 
9 weeks ago by andrewducker
DNA-researcher: It’s not 'woke' to portray prehistoric Europeans with dark skin. It’s evolution.
evolution  colour  skin  Europe  prehistory  genetics 
december 2023 by andrewducker
Breakthrough in reading unopened ancient scrolls by scanning them
archaeology  ai  technology  prehistory 
october 2023 by andrewducker
A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant
middle_east  agriculture  prehistory 
october 2023 by andrewducker
Scientists discover world’s oldest human-built structure, built by an extinct species
humans  prehistory 
october 2023 by andrewducker
How far back into pre-history can we push the earliest societies?
prehistory  Intelligence  society 
september 2023 by andrewducker
Our Human Ancestors Very Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago, Genetics Suggest, With A Population of less than 1,300
prehistory  genetics  humans 
september 2023 by andrewducker
Using economic theory to find lost cites of the Bronze Age
viaDanielDWilliam  trade  prehistory  economics  cities 
august 2023 by andrewducker
How much would it cost to make a simple piece of clothing by hand
clothing  money  prehistory  viaDanielDWilliam 
july 2023 by andrewducker
DNA Research Reveals Surprising Origins of Native Americans
USA  genetics  prehistory  viaNancyLebov 
may 2023 by andrewducker
It's 1178 BCE and the Bronze Age Has Never Looked Stronger.
prehistory  archeology  funny  history 
may 2023 by andrewducker
Clues to the Lives of North America’s First Inhabitants Are Hidden Underwater
usa  prehistory  archeology  ocean 
march 2023 by andrewducker
Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago
prehistory  archeology  materials  europe 
march 2023 by andrewducker
The idea that in earlier societies men were the hunters while women were the gatherers is a myth
gender  society  history  prehistory 
january 2023 by andrewducker
The Oberkassel puppy is the oldest known domesticated dog
dogs  prehistory  Germany 
january 2023 by andrewducker
Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery
Paper here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19
prehistory  calendars  art 
january 2023 by andrewducker
Scientists Revived 32,000-Year-Old Plant DNA From Siberian Permafrost
plants  prehistory  Russia 
january 2023 by andrewducker
Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record by one million years
genetics  dna  prehistory 
december 2022 by andrewducker
If you've ever wanted to sleep through the winter then feel envious of your ancestors, who may have done just that
sleep  winter  humans  prehistory  bone  archeology 
october 2022 by andrewducker
New technique shows old temperatures were much hotter than thought
co2  prehistory  globalwarming  ocean 
september 2022 by andrewducker
What if life first evolved in hydrothermal vents *before* there even were genes?
genetics  life  prehistory  biology  chemistry 
august 2022 by andrewducker
The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range
mountains  prehistory 
august 2022 by andrewducker
How did explorers in the 7th century BC sail the oceans?
ocean  exploration  ships  archeology  prehistory  history  viaDanielDWilliam 
july 2022 by andrewducker
Sex with your distant ancestors: bestiality or not?
bestiality  sex  prehistory  evolution 
june 2022 by andrewducker
Why didn't our ancient ancestors get cavities?
teeth  prehistory  archeology  society  farming 
april 2022 by andrewducker
Europe's Lost World (And The Megaflood That Ended It)
prehistory  uk  europe  flooding 
april 2022 by andrewducker
The fashion capital of the prehistoric world has been revealed
art  craft  fashion  prehistory  Spain  archeology 
april 2022 by andrewducker
Chalk drum from 5,000 years ago is the most important UK art find in a century
uk  prehistory  archaeology  art 
february 2022 by andrewducker
Women led the Bronze Age immigration to Orkney
scotland  prehistory  genetics  women  migration 
february 2022 by andrewducker
The human mind does not easily process the gulfs of time that humans have existed for
humans  prehistory 
february 2022 by andrewducker
The Trees That Miss The Mammoths
trees  prehistory  elephants 
january 2022 by andrewducker
Ancient mass migration transformed Britons' DNA
genetics  UK  prehistory  language 
december 2021 by andrewducker
Intellectual Property For Early Man
funny  intellectual_property  comics  prehistory  fire 
december 2021 by andrewducker
Which early hominid are you? (I got homo sapiens sapiens, which delighted me)
neanderthal  prehistory  quiz  ViaDrCross 
december 2021 by andrewducker
The best selling single of every decade, all the way back to the dawn of humankind!
music  history  prehistory  funny 
december 2021 by andrewducker
Prehistoric cave paintings were animations
animation  video  prehistory  art  cave 
november 2021 by andrewducker
Fossilized Footprints Reveal Human Habitation of North America 23,000 Years Ago
humans  paleontology  prehistory  USA  America 
september 2021 by andrewducker
A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
prehistory  asteroids  middle_east 
september 2021 by andrewducker
Sex was invented in Scotland
Scotland  sex  prehistory  paleontology 
september 2021 by andrewducker
Middle Pleistocene fire use: The first signal of widespread cultural diffusion in human evolution
fire  prehistory  society 
august 2021 by andrewducker
Evidence of the Elements - Finding Euclid on scattered pot shards.
history  mathematics  prehistory  archeology 
july 2021 by andrewducker
The mountains that are older than fish (and stretch from America to Norway via Scotland)
mountains  prehistory  viaNancyLebov 
july 2021 by andrewducker
Researchers investigate the spread of weighing systems across Western Eurasia 4,000 years ago
europe  prehistory  measurement  weight 
july 2021 by andrewducker
Which came first, bread or beer?
bread  beer  alcohol  prehistory 
june 2021 by andrewducker
19 million years ago: sharkapocalypse
sharks  extinction  prehistory 
june 2021 by andrewducker
By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons in one cave
prehistory  Italy  neanderthal 
may 2021 by andrewducker
Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the ‘missing link’
language  writing  prehistory 
april 2021 by andrewducker
105,000 years ago in the Kalahari Desert, people invented complex culture
culture  prehistory  Africa 
april 2021 by andrewducker
Prior to the Chicxulub impact, rainforests looked very different
forests  meteor  prehistory 
april 2021 by andrewducker
The World's Oldest Known Wooden Statue Is More Than Twice as Old as Stonehenge (12,500 years)
art  prehistory  Russia 
march 2021 by andrewducker
Egyptologists translate the oldest-known mummification manual
Egypt  prehistory 
march 2021 by andrewducker
Humans were drinking milk before they developed the genes for digesting it
genes  milk  prehistory  Africa 
february 2021 by andrewducker
This painted pig is the world’s oldest known figurative art
art  prehistory 
january 2021 by andrewducker
Study finds indications of life on Doggerland after devastating tsunamis
UK  prehistory  viaDanielDWilliam 
december 2020 by andrewducker
First ‘clear evidence’ of hallucinogens at cave art site found
archeology  hallucinogenics  prehistory  USA 
november 2020 by andrewducker
New project at Oxford University explores the origins of money
money  prehistory  research 
november 2020 by andrewducker
30-50% of prehistoric hunters in the Americas were female
prehistory  gender  women 
november 2020 by andrewducker
How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline
prehistory  politics  usa 
november 2020 by andrewducker
Dogs were domesticated once from a lost population of wolves
dogs  genetics  prehistory 
october 2020 by andrewducker
Ancient DNA sheds light on Viking origins, travels
prehistory  viking 
september 2020 by andrewducker
Beautifully preserved cave bears emerge from Siberian permafrost
Russia  Bears  prehistory 
september 2020 by andrewducker
Humans reached the Americas 11,000 years earlier than previously thought
USA  prehistory  archaeology 
july 2020 by andrewducker
Canadian scuba diver in Mexico discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex
Mexico  prehistory 
july 2020 by andrewducker
Why Birds Can Fly Over Mount Everest (blame the Permian Extinction)
life  oxygen  birds  dinosaurs  prehistory  earth 
june 2020 by andrewducker
The Silurian hypothesis: would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
prehistory  civilization  technology 
june 2020 by andrewducker
Bread was invented as a way to store the ingredients for beer
This is, of course, just one theory. But a pretty reasonable one, from somd additional reading.
alcohol  prehistory  bread  food 
june 2020 by andrewducker
Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs struck Earth at 'deadliest possible angle'
prehistory  archeology  extinction  dinosaurs  asteroids 
may 2020 by andrewducker
A novel mutation 62,000 years ago led to a new way of thinking and language-use
language  mutation  prehistory  humans 
may 2020 by andrewducker
New discovery suggests London’s story goes back more than 3,000 years longer than previously thought
London  archeology  prehistory 
april 2020 by andrewducker
Mysterious mammoth bone circle discovered in Russia could help explain how humans survived last Ice Age
prehistory  Russia 
march 2020 by andrewducker
Graduate Student Discovers One of World's Oldest Swords in Mislabeled Monastery Display
swords  prehistory 
march 2020 by andrewducker
More humans than thought survived volcanic super-eruption 74,000 years ago
prehistory  volcano 
february 2020 by andrewducker
Ancient 'lost' civilisation uncovered by archaeologists in Turkey (who defeated King Midas)
turkey  prehistory  archeology 
february 2020 by andrewducker
7000-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered
prehistory  wood  archeology 
february 2020 by andrewducker
The Fantastically Strange Origin of Most Coal on Earth
prehistory  carbon  trees  bacteria 
january 2020 by andrewducker
Scientists find that tin found in Israel from 3,000 years ago comes from Cornwall
UK  Israel  metal  trade  prehistory 
january 2020 by andrewducker
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