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16, 000-Year-Old Puppy Reveals Humans and Dogs Were Already Best Friends
2+ week, 1+ day ago (312+ words) Genetic analysis shows early dogs lived closely with Paleolithic humans, ate the same food, and were buried with ritual care in Turkey and Britain. A second study by Anders Bergstr'm and Pontus Skoglund of the Francis Crick Institute in London…...
Ancient Loom Unlocks Bronze Age Textile Secrets
3+ week, 3+ day ago (434+ words) A rare archaeological discovery in Spain reveals how a 3, 500-year-old loom once produced complex fabrics, offering unprecedented insight into the textile revolution of the Bronze Age Mediterranean. The weights found at Cabezo Redondo are unusually small and light compared with…...
How Maya Rivalries Fueled a Civilization's Fall
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (569+ words) New archaeological discoveries and decades of script decipherment suggest elite infighting'not sudden catastrophe'drove the collapse of the Classic Maya world Cold War politics may have influenced that stance. In the 1950s, Russian linguist Yuri Knorosov proposed that the script contained phonetic,…...