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If you, too, have ever heard reels-scholars speak of Neanderthal women as hostages to a narrow pelvis that condemned them to difficult births, this claim can now safely be moved to the category of refuted myths

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the Institute for Basic Science in Busan has digitised and reconstructed the pelvic bones of four Neanderthals of different ages and sexes: an infant of one and a half years from Dederiyeh Cave in Syria, a young woman from Sima

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One could speak of the antiquities of Bulgaria at length: the oldest worked gold in the world, the oldest solar calendar in Europe in the Magura Cave, Europe's largest Neolithic necropolis at Durankulak with the oldest stone building on the continent…

And now, near the village of Člebi in the Nymburk District of Central Bohemia, archaeologists from the University of West Bohemia have unearthed a monumental structure more than 6,500 years old, identified as one of the oldest ritual centres in Central Europe. The building is an almost circular enclosure

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At Göbekli Tepe, the world's oldest megalithic temple complex, more than 11,500 years old, rectangular buildings have been found that may have served as dwellings

The site is being surveyed by means of geomagnetic mapping, ground-penetrating radar and lidar scanning. The head of the excavation reports that the new rectangular structures are concentrated chiefly in the eastern and southern parts of the hill and lie next to the already known circular monumental buildings with

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An analysis of several dozen Bronze Age vessels from the Qurayyah oasis in north-western Arabia may have identified the first branded goods in human history

The two-colour painted pottery of this region has long been known to specialists as "Midianite", and its origin remained a matter of dispute. The first batch of painted ware was made some 3,600 years ago, and its production continued uninterrupted for centuries, undergoing only modest change.

Archaeology · Museums · Education

In Norway, beneath the Grønhaug mound, 30 metres across and 4 metres high, on the island of Karmøy, an oak ship some 15 metres long was buried

In Norway, beneath the Grønhaug mound, 30 metres across and 4 metres high, on the island of Karmøy, an oak ship some 15 metres long was buried. This has been known since the excavations of 1902. In August of this year, archaeologists of the Museum of Archaeology at the University

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HER HVILUR

A stone bearing a runic inscription, set into the floor of a building around the year 1000 in the Faroe Islands. The inscription is poorly legible; all that can be made out is "her hvilur", "here lies", which is to say that it is most probably

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Call Drobyshevsky!

Call Drobyshevsky! Just joking, he has known all this for ages. A Japanese-Taiwanese research group has analysed a femur and a tibia from the bed of the Penghu Channel off Taiwan and determined that they belonged to Denisovans who lived about 45,000 years ago. But judging by the

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I read a funny item in the newsletter of the Prehistoric Society of Great Britain: for forty years Ireland believed that the oldest bones of a domestic cow, dated to before…

I read a funny item in the newsletter of the Prehistoric Society of Great Britain: for forty years Ireland believed that the oldest bones of a domestic cow, dated to before 4000 BC, had been found at the Ferriter's Cove site in County Kerry, and that this was

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Read in a newspaper 19 years old how a British history teacher, Adrian Targett, learned that he shares mitochondrial DNA with Cheddar Man, found in Gough's Cave in 1903 and some 10,000 years old

Read in a newspaper 19 years old how a British history teacher, Adrian Targett, learned that he shares mitochondrial DNA with Cheddar Man, found in Gough's Cave in 1903 and some 10,000 years old. What is more, Targett and his family had lived all their lives literally

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A burial of 79 adult men with shackled wrists, discovered in 2016 in the Phaleron necropolis near Athens

A burial of 79 adult men with shackled wrists, discovered in 2016 in the Phaleron necropolis near Athens. The burial has been named the Esplanade. To this day there is no unambiguous answer to who they were and why they died together. The burial is dated to the turn of

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The Babylonian poem "The Poor Man of Nippur", composed around 701 BC and devoted to the duty of hospitality and to vengeance for an undeserved insult

The Babylonian poem "The Poor Man of Nippur", composed around 701 BC and devoted to the duty of hospitality and to vengeance for an undeserved insult. A poor man from the city of Nippur gives up his last possession and brings a goat as a gift to the

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Fet begged to “drive the living boat off with a single push”, to catch the fleeting before it vanishes

Fet begged to “drive the living boat off with a single push”, to catch the fleeting before it vanishes. The monthly digest has a more modest task, though the same one: to hold on to what matters before the flood of news washes it away. Here is the main news