Fish hooks and fishbones dating back 42,000 years found in a cave in East Timor suggest that humans were capable of skilled, deep-sea fishing 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers in Australia and Japan said on Friday. The artefacts — nearly 39,000 fishbones and three fish hooks — were found in a limestone cave [...]
Archaeologists announced Tuesday that they dug to the very core of Mexico’s tallest pyramid and found what may be the original ceremonial offering placed on the site of the Pyramid of the Sun before construction began. The offerings found at the base of the pyramid in the Teotihuacan ruin site just north of Mexico City [...]
Archaeologists, who have been digging in Rome’s Palatine Hill, have found the remains of a large house that they believe is the birthplace of the city’s first emperor Augustus in 63 B.C. Announced at the end of a 10-year excavation, the finding was partly uncovered in 2006, when a team led by Clementina Panella, professor [...]
Evidence of glutinous millet’s cultivation has been found in the northern province of Hebei that could date back to 10,000 years, said Chinese archaeologists Sunday. Lab results showed that remains of glutinous millet found at archaeological sites in Cishan village in the city of Wu’an were harvested during the neolithic era between 8,700 to 10,000 [...]
A historic site in northern Scotland may have served as an Iron Age boozer – the oldest to be ever found in Britain, researchers say. Experts believe that 4600 years ago, thirsty natives enjoyed a pie and pint at Jarlshof in Shetland near Sumburgh Head. And a dozen or so quernstones – for grinding barley [...]
A group of Mexican archaeologists have discovered a 1.5 ton stone relief from the Olmec culture created more than 2,800 years ago, the National Institute of Archaeology and History, or INAH, said. The discovery was made at the archaeological site of Chalcatzingo in Morelos state, “the only pre-Columbian site known in central Mexico with large [...]
Stone Age barbecue consumers first went for the bone marrow and then for the ribs, suggest the leftovers of an outdoor 7,700-year-old meaty feast described in the July issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science. The remains, found in the valley of the River Tjonger, Netherlands, provide direct evidence for a prehistoric hunting, butchering, cooking [...]
Hundreds of images of the now extinct mammoths and mastodons — elephant-like animals hunted by prehistoric people — have been found in Europe, but none had surfaced in the Americas, until now. A fragment of bone, discovered in Vero Beach, Fla., by a fossil hunter, bears a 3-inch-long, 1.75-inch tall (7.62 centimeters by 4.45 centimeters) [...]
Archaeologists have unearthed an old city of Crusaders, which had been hidden for centuries under the port city of Acre along the Mediterranean Sea in Israel. The newly excavated city adds to Israel’s many heritage sites. It is believed to be last inhabited by residents in 1291, the year the crusader state power fell to [...]
A gun found in 1968 by a group of children who were digging in the 15th century Klicevica fortress, has finally been identified by archeologists in Croatia as the world’s only triple-barrel cannon inspired by the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci. Until now, attempts to properly analyse it were stymied by Croatia’s war of independence [...]
marcos anthony toledo:
Lets see how this new information either proves or disprove the current cosmic models of t...
marcos anthony toledo:
I think the further back we go in time we will find evidence of fishing. I think it might ...
Jase_UK:
One side could be really hot and the other side really cold.
It all depends on the type...
marcos anthony toledo:
What I wonder if the planet circling Gliese 581 is not rotating what would be the effect o...
marcos anthony toledo:
This great news this increases the chances for finding life in the galaxy since red dwarf ...
