HISTORY
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DNA From 10,000-Year-Old Scandinavian Chewing Gum Reveals Stone Age Diet
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the early 1990s, excavations took place at Huseby-Klev, an early Mesolithic hunter-fisher site on…
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Surprising Time Capsule In Antarctica – Evidence Of Toxic Heavy Metal Pollution 800 Years Ago
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While examining ice cores from Antarctica, scientists found evidence of toxic heavy metal pollution caused…
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World’s Oldest Fossilized Skin Discovered In Oklahoma – It’s Nearly 300 Million Years Old
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have identified a fragment of the world’s oldest fossilized skin! The fossil, which belongs…
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Knaresborough Hoard Reveals Its Secrets – Unusual Roman Discovery In The British Isles
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have investigated one of the most unusual late-Roman metalware ever discovered in the British…
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DNA Study Sheds New Light On The Ancient Teotihuacans
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One of the most intriguing archaeological pre-Columbian sites is Teotihuacán, which scientists still know relatively…
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New England’s Abandoned Stone Walls Deserve A Science Of Their Own
AncientPages.com – The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens,…
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Little-Known Mummy Fragments Analyzed By Scientists
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany have carried out the first comprehensive analysis of…
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First Carbon-Based Paleolithic Paintings Found In Font-De-Gaume Cave, France Could Be 19,000 Years Old
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – On 12 September 1901, Denis Peyrony, a local schoolmaster, stepped inside the Font-De-Gaume Cave. He…
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Early Human Communication May Have Been Influenced By Changing African Landscape – Anthropologists Say
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The shift from dense forests to open plains in Africa may have caused our ancient…
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Early Neolithic High Mountain Settlers Were Busy With Complex Livestock And Farming Activities – New Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An archaeological find in the Huescan Pyrenees allowed researchers to identify for the first time livestock…
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