Prehistoric Archive
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Stone ships show signs of maritime network in Baltic Sea region 3,000 years ago
Posted on March 25, 2013 | No CommentsIn the middle of the Bronze Age, around 1000 BC, the amount of metal objects increased dramatically in the Baltic Sea region. Around the same time, a new type of stone monument, arranged in the form of ships, started to appear along the coasts. -
A canon for the Bronze Age?
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsCatalogues and databases which are easily accessible to all interested parties regardless of their geographical location, occupation, background or purpose, provide a level playing field for research, publication and debate in the archaeology of the bronze age. The establishment of a canon of reliable, illustrated documentation of as many facets of the Bronze Age as are required, is a prerequisite to the future of our understanding of the Bronze Age. -
Scientists create automated
Posted on March 7, 2013 | No CommentsScientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created an automated 'time machine,' of sorts, that will greatly accelerate and improve the process of reconstructing hundreds of ancestral languages. -
Bronze Age pottery and settlements in southern England
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsWhat we need to do. Doctoral research involving artefact corpora appears to be unfashionable. However the compilation of such works for Food Vessels, accessory vessels and the Late Bronze Age styles is desperately needed; and the studies of Biconical Urns and MBA pottery (see above) need to be published. -
Computerized
Posted on February 12, 2013 | No CommentsUniversity of British Columbia and Berkeley researchers have used a sophisticated new computer system to quickly reconstruct protolanguages -
40,000-year-old human leg shows how prehistoric Asians related to Native Americans
Posted on January 22, 2013 | No CommentsAncient DNA has revealed that humans living some 40,000 years ago in the area near Beijing were likely related to many present-day Asians and Native Americans -
Mesolithic Childhoods: Changing Life-Courses of Young Hunter-Fishers in the Stone Age of Southern Scandinavia
Posted on January 2, 2013 | No CommentsThe children seem to have started to engage in the adult world by the age of seven or eight, and by the age of around fourteen years, their graves are inseparable from those of the adults. -
New light on Neolithic revolution in south-west Asia
Posted on December 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe answer I propose is: (1) only at a certain point in human cognitive evolution did it become possible for Homo sapiens to transcend certain biological limitations of the human brain by cultural means; and (2) this increased mental facility was made necessary by the reliance on larger and more cohesive social groups, itself a product of hominin evolution. -
People were making cheese over 7,000 years ago, researchers find
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Archaeologists identify spear tips used in hunting a half-million years ago
Posted on November 26, 2012 | No CommentsFindings suggest hunting with stone-tipped spears began much earlier than previously believed
