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The Shackled Dead of Phaleron Were Not Foreign Invaders, New Study Finds — Curiosmos
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (556+ words) A chemical record preserved in their teeth suggests that most of the men in Phaleron’s shackled mass graves grew up in Attica. The finding shifts the debate from foreign invaders to violence within the community itself. At first glance, the…...
How Do Archaeologists Tell Whether an Ancient Building Was a Home, Shrine, or Workshop? — Curiosmos
1+ week, 3+ day ago (673+ words) An ancient building does not come with a label on the door. When archaeologists uncover walls, they have to work out what people did inside them from the traces left behind. A hearth may suggest cooking, but it can also…...
What Is a Megalith? Why Ancient People Built Stone Monuments
2+ week, 3+ min ago (764+ words) What is a megalith? The word comes from Greek roots meaning “large stone,” and archaeologists use it for monuments built with large stones or substantial stone settings. That definition is broad on purpose. A standing stone, a chambered tomb, a…...
Guernsey Records Hide 17 Medieval Manuscript Fragments
2+ week, 5+ hour ago (691+ words) The discovery is the first clear evidence that medieval books and sustained reading were present on the island, rather than arriving only through later English administration. The fragments were identified by researchers studying the material history of Guernsey’s records. A…...
A Viking Woman’s Brooches Preserved Fragments of Her 1,300-Year-Old Clothing — Curiosmos
2+ week, 3+ day ago (653+ words) Fragments of clothing have survived inside an eighth-century Viking woman’s grave in western Denmark, giving archaeologists a rare chance to study what she wore. The pieces were found attached to two concave "scoop" brooches from a burial at Skonager, near…...
What Can Ancient DNA Tell Us About Lost Populations?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (433+ words) In the right sample, it can reveal relationships that bones alone cannot show: who was related, which groups moved, where populations mixed, and which genetic changes survived after a community disappeared. It can also show what ancient DNA cannot do....
An Ancient Iron Furnace in Uzbekistan Is Opening a Window on Central Asian Metalworking — Curiosmos
2+ week, 5+ day ago (484+ words) An excavation in Uzbekistan is bringing archaeologists, materials scientists and environmental researchers together around a single ancient furnace. At Abu Muslim Qala, in the historic Khorezm region, a Purdue-led project has uncovered the remains of a settlement and a large…...
Dendrochronology: How Tree Rings Date Ancient Buildings
3+ week, 3+ min ago (475+ words) How does dendrochronology date ancient buildings? By reading the growth history recorded inside wood. In regions where trees respond to changing seasons, each year leaves a pattern of wide and narrow rings. When a wooden beam from an old structure…...
Did People Live at Göbekli Tepe? Evidence from Its Houses
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1652+ words) New surveys have detected possible houses beyond Göbekli Tepe’s excavated monuments, while rooms already uncovered contain benches, grinding stones, storage spaces, and vessels. The famous sanctuary is beginning to look like the centre of a lived-in settlement. Archaeologists have now…...
Scientists Read 4,000-Year-Old Letters Without Opening Their Clay Envelopes — Curiosmos
4+ week, 16+ hour ago (811+ words) Researchers are using high-definition X-ray CT and virtual unwrapping to read cuneiform letters that remain sealed inside their ancient clay envelopes. For thousands of years, some letters from Mesopotamia have remained exactly where their writers left them: inside small clay…...