Prehistoric Archive
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Life on the edge: early maritime cultures of the Pacific Coast of North America
Posted on January 29, 2012 | No CommentsA variety of evidence suggests that the Americas may have been colonized, at least in part, by maritime peoples moving around the North Pacific Rim near the end of the Pleistocene. -
Early history of wound treatment
Posted on January 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe first written records containing medical information date from about 2500 BC. Clay tablets from this time have been discovered in Mesopotamia and the first medical papyri from Egypt are probably some seven hundred years younger... -
The ‘Solarization’ of the Moon: Manipulated Knowledge at Stonehenge
Posted on December 23, 2011 | No CommentsThe aim of the monument builders was to juxtapose, replicate and reverse certain key horizon properties of the sun and the moon, apparently with the intention of investing the sun with the moon’s former religious significance. -
77,000 year old evidence for ‘bedding’ and use of medicinal plants uncovered at South African rock shelter
Posted on December 13, 2011 | No CommentsThis discovery is 50,000 years older than earlier reports of preserved bedding and provides a fascinating insight into the behavioural practices of early modern humans in southern Africa. -
Dogs were first domesticated in East Asia, research finds
Posted on December 1, 2011 | No CommentsData on genetics, morphology and behaviour show clearly that dogs are descended from wolves, but there’s never been scientific consensus on where in the world the domestication process began. -
Ancient bronze artifact from East Asia discovered in Alaska
Posted on November 15, 2011 | No CommentsResearchers have discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small, buckle-like object found in an ancient Eskimo dwelling and which likely originated in East Asia. -
What Did Our Ancestors Eat?
Posted on November 13, 2011 | No CommentsUntil the advent of modern processing technologies, dirt, grit, and fiber constituted a large part of most early diets. -
The first modern humans came to Europe earlier than presumed
Posted on November 2, 2011 | No Comments45 000 year old teeth found in Italy were from humans, not Neanderthals, research finds -
Ancient cooking pots reveal gradual transition to agriculture
Posted on November 1, 2011 | No CommentsHumans may have undergone a gradual rather than an abrupt transition from fishing, hunting and gathering to farming, according to a new study of ancient pottery. -
Researchers recreate face of ancient human
Posted on October 26, 2011 | No CommentsA reconstruction based on the skull of Norway’s best-preserved Stone Age skeleton makes it possible to study the features of a boy who lived in Scandinavia 7,500 years ago.