Category: Arch/ Anthro

When screening ancient Eurasian individuals for IBD segments, the researchers detected a pair of biological relatives whose remains were buried 1,410 kilometers apart, one in central Mongolia and one in southern Russia. Credit: Nature Genetics (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-023-01582-w If two persons are biologically related, they share long stretches of DNA that they co-inherited from their recent…

Archaeologists excavate the Offord Cluny 203645 burial. Credit: MOLA Headland Infrastructure Scientists from the Francis Crick Institute, Durham University, and MOLA Headland Infrastructure have discovered that a man who lived between AD 126–228 during the Roman period did not originally come from a rural farmstead near where he was buried, but likely thousands of miles…

A Bathymetric data showing the Northwest Sahul continental shelf with eustatic and regional sea level curves projected. Ai Coastline morphology during the Marine Isotope Stage 4 sea level lowstand (∼70 ka–61 ka), and Aii during the Marine Isotope Stage 3 sea level highstand (∼52 ka–49 ka). Aiii Coastline morphology during the Marine Isotope Stage 2…

Credit: Liverpool University Press Cleopatra would have been in safe hands if she really had been bitten by a snake, or affected by any number of illnesses, say University of Manchester Egyptologists. A new book, titled “Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt” by Professor Rosalie David and Dr. Roger Forshaw, is one of the…

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a Göktürk period cult complex in the Tarbagatay district of Kazakhstan’s Eastern Kazakhstan region. The discovery was made in 2021, with the results of the excavation only now being announced to Kazakhstan media outlets. The complex dates from the Western Göktürk period (6th to 8th century AD), when the…

A team of archaeologists from the San Luis Gonzaga National University of Ica (Unica) have discovered 29 geoglyphs in the Ica region of Southern Peru. The discovery was made in the districts of El Ingenio and Changuillo, where the team identified 29 geoglyphs that depict feline and anthropomorphic figures. According to the researchers, the geoglyphs…

The study area. A) The location of Tianchi Lake and the paleo-climatic records mentioned in this study are indicated by the stars and circles, respectively. The arrows illustrate the main trajectories of the Westerly, East Asian summer monsoon (EASM), and East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM). B) Kernel density analysis of warfare activities in the eastern…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Evidence suggests that writing was invented in southern Iraq sometime before 3000BC. But what happened next? Anyone interested in this question will find How Writing Made Us Human by Walter Stephens both an enjoyable and stimulating read. It offers what it calls an “emotional history” of writing, chiefly referencing academics and…

Life portrait of the Maidanetske mega-settlement. Credit: Susanne Beyer, Kiel University Nutrition in Trypillia mega-sites is currently the focus of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1266 at Kiel University (CAU). In the forest steppe northwest of the Black Sea—today the territory of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine—mega-sites of the Trypillia societies emerged about 6,000…

Working with high-resolution satellite imagery in GeoPACHA, VanValkenburgh and other researchers used their specialized knowledge to find and tag certain landmarks, including hill forts. Credit: Brown University Parker VanValkenburgh has dedicated more than a decade of research to understanding how colonialism impacted Peru’s Indigenous people in the 16th century. That time marked a turning point…