• 40,000-year-old signs show humans were recording information long before writing More than 40,000 years ago, early humans were already engraving symbols onto tools, figurines, an
• Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. • According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University
• In the journal Antiquity, Dr. • Shokouh Khosravi published preliminary findings of the largest known corpus of prehistoric seal impressions in the entire ancient world. • The cor
• Two 4,000-year-old burnt fabrics reveal a lost Bronze Age textile industry A deep dive into the microscopic analysis of Tx1 and Tx2 fragments. • Excavations in Turkey have yielde
• Rare 2,000-year-old footprints found on Scottish beach, archaeologists rush to save In an archaeological emergency, a team rushed to Lunan Bay to preserve an exceptionally rare 2
• Storms that recently ravaged Britain’s coastline have revealed 2,000-year-old footprints on an Angus beach-one of only a handful of locations in the U.K. • where markings of this
• Ancient DNA solves 12,000-year-old mystery of rare genetic growth disorder A 12,000-year-old Ice Age burial has revealed the earliest genetic diagnosis of a rare growth disorder.
• Bacteria have evolved to adapt to all of Earth’s most extreme conditions, from scorching heat to temperatures well below zero. • Ice caves are just one of the environments hostin