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Ancient Burial Jars in Laos Have Been Running a 2,000-Year Natural Experiment
1+ week, 4+ day ago (613+ words) No one planned this experiment but giant jars in Laos have been running it for 2,000 years. No ecologist designed the experiment. No one decided which stone vessels should sit beneath trees or out in the open. And no scientist planned…...
These Neanderthal Tools Looked So Ordinary Archaeologists Almost Missed Them
2+ week, 2+ day ago (502+ words) Thousands of overlooked bone scraps are rewriting Neanderthal research...
A Provocative Theory by NASA Scientists Asks: What If We Weren't the First Advanced Civilization on Earth?
2+ week, 3+ day ago (404+ words) The Silurian Hypothesis asks whether signs of truly ancient past civilizations would even be recognisable today....
This 6,000-year-old Megalith in Spain Predates Stonehenge by Over a Thousand Years and It's Still Standing —Here’s How It Was Made
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (771+ words) This ancient structure remarkable lasted through the millennia. “Megaliths represent the earliest form of monumental stone architecture,” write the authors of a 2024 study, and the Menga Dolmen is a fantastic example. This prehistoric megalithic structure near Antequera in southern Spain…...
Up to 1% of Your DNA May Come From a Mysterious Human Lineage
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (482+ words) Scientists found ghost human DNA in every population they tested....
Stonehenge’s Altar Stone May Have Traveled Partway on a Glacier from Scotland Before People Took Over
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (877+ words) A glacier may have shortened the journey, but humans still moved the six-ton stone in place. Long before Stonehenge rose above Salisbury Plain, one of its stones may have begun an extraordinary journey inside a glacier. The Altar Stone, a…...
Humans May Have Spoken 75,000 Languages Just 2,000 Years Ago. Then Empires Rose
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (716+ words) Home → Science → History Today’s 7,600 languages might seem like a lot, but they're just a fraction that survived a vast, ancient extinction. The ancient world may have been speaking in tens of thousands of languages. Most went completely silent. A new…...
Medieval Courts Put Murderous Pigs on Trial and the Records Are Stranger Than Fiction
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (381+ words) Pig executions helped medieval communities punish negligence, display power and restore a threatened social order....
A Man Took a Stone Blade to the Face 100,000 Years Ago and Lived to Tell the Tale
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (302+ words) The discovery offers one of the oldest known examples of interpersonal violence....
Researchers Recreated a Lost Ming-Dynasty Goldsmithing Technique That Made Gold Earrings Look Like Woven Thread
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (525+ words) Ancient earrings reveal a forgotten way to fold gold like fabric....