More than 50 years British born Paleoanthropologist Make it leaky The fossils of our early ancestors in Kenya have remained untouched Basin of Turkey. Her discovery has changed how we think about our origins. Instead of human development to systematically ape, suggests its function Different pre-human species living together. Leakey’s …
Read More »The microscopic image shows pieces of spherical steel trapped in slag. Image: Raheel Alipore / UCL Archeology Chromium steel, commonly known as stainless steel, is considered a recent product innovation, but new evidence suggests that the ancient Persians stumbled upon an early version of this alloy about 1,000 years ago, …
Read More »Fossilized grass fragments dated to 200,000 years old. Image: L. Wadley Archaeologists from South Africa have discovered rudimentary beds made by early humans by placing bundles of grass on a layer of ash. Sounds basic, but these stone age beds were more sober than they appear at first glance. “We …
Read More »Outside the Paisley Caves entrance.Image: John Blong For archaeologists, ancient bones and stone tools are important lines of evidence, but sometimes the answers to our past can be found in piles of human excrement, as a major new analysis shows. From 2002 to 2010, aArchaeologists collected dozens of coprolites, or …
Read More »Left: facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic man from Sweden. Right: his skull, from which the reconstruction was based. Image: Oscar Nilsson / S. Gummesson et al., 2018 In 2011, Swedish archaeologists found human skulls that had been mounted on stakes at an 8,000-year-old burial site, representing behavior rarely seen among …
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