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  • Decolonizing Prehistory with World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture

    “The idol was carved during an era of great climate change, when early forests were spreading across a warmer late glacial to postglacial Eurasia,” Dr. Terberger said. “The landscape changed, and the art — figurative designs and naturalistic animals painted… Continue reading

  • ‘One of a kind’ Egyptian tomb discovery revealed

    The tomb, found in the Saqqara pyramid complex near Cairo, is filled with colourful hieroglyphs and statues of pharaohs. Decorative scenes show the owner, a royal priest named Wahtye, with his mother, wife and other relatives. Archaeologists will start excavating… Continue reading

    ‘One of a kind’ Egyptian tomb discovery revealed

  • Unearthing music

    We all knew that Stone Age humans were hunters and gatherers. But sculptors and flutists? Archeologists announced today that they had unearthed the oldest musical instruments ever found — flutes that inhabitants of southwestern Germany laboriously carved from bone and… Continue reading

    Unearthing music

  • Lost Pyramids of Caral

    This documentary adds to the notions port forward in my earlier sharing of the Wired article, Human Nature May not Be So Warlike After All. I saw this film eleven years ago just after the BBC first aired it. A… Continue reading

    Lost Pyramids of Caral

  • Civilization’s jungle paths

    Cambodia’s vast lost city: world’s greatest pre-industrial site unearthed A ground-breaking archaeological discovery in Cambodia has revealed a colossal 700-year old urban landscape connecting ancient cities and temples to Angkor Wat. via Cambodia’s vast lost city: world’s greatest pre-industrial site… Continue reading

    Civilization’s jungle paths

  • Article: Stonehenge Revealed: Why Stones Were a “Special Place”

    Stonehenge Revealed: Why Stones Were a “Special Place” http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130621-stonehenge-summer-solstice-archaeology-science/ Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading

  • Indus civilization food: How scientists are figuring out what curry was like 4,500 years ago. – Slate Magazine

      Working with other Indian and American archaeologists, the two applied new methods for pinpointing the elusive remains of spices that don’t show up in flotation tanks. Instead of analyzing dirt from Indus kitchens, they collected cooking pots from the… Continue reading