Stone Pages Archaeo News: August 2019 Archives

August 2019 index:

19 August 2019: Evidence of violence behind human skull remains from the Palaeolithic; Analysis of the fossilized skull of an Upper Palaeolithic man suggests that he died a violent death, according to a study by an international team from Greece, Romania and Germany...
: Stonehenge's megaliths may have been moved into place using pig lard; Ancient people may have moved some of the massive megaliths of Stonehenge into place by greasing giant sleds with pig lard, then sliding the giant stones on them across the...
: Earliest evidence of ochre on bone engravings found in China; Archeologists in China have discovered two engraved bones with ochre incisions in a layer dating back between 105,000 and 125,000 years ago, which they say is the earliest evidence of...
: Pottery related to unknown culture found in Ecuador; Archaeologists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), Institute of Archeology and Ethnography SB RAS (Russia), Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) (Ecuador), and Tohoku University (Japan) found shards of ceramic...
: 4,000-year-old couple found buried face-to-face in Kazakhstan; The bodies of a man and woman who died 4,000 years ago have been found buried face-to-face in a grave in Kazakhstan. Archaeologists discovered the burial in an ancient cemetery...
22 August 2019: Prehistoric humans invented stone tools multiple times; Researchers have found a collection of 327 stones shaped more than 2.58 million years ago - the first evidence of ancient hominids sharpening stones to create specific tools. The collection...
: 4,000-year-old burial revealed on Anglesey; Archaeologists have excavated a 4,000-year-old burial mound on Anglesey in northwest Wales. Overlooking the Irish Sea, Anglesey is dotted with numerous Neolithic and Bronze Age stone monuments. The most famous...
: Bronze Age Scandinavia trade routes; 4000 years ago, Britain and Central Europe supplied copper and tin to Denmark, which has no metal sources of its own. Finished metal objects were imported and recast to fit...
: Communal sophistication at Neolithic site in Greece; A large, Middle Neolithic building has been discovered at the top of the Koutroulou Magoula Neolithic settlement in Central Greece. The tell settlement measures 3.7 hectares, rises around 6.6 metres...
23 August 2019: Closest-known ancestor of Native North Americans found in Siberia; Indigenous Americans descend from people who crossed an ancient land bridge connecting Siberia to Alaska thousands of years ago. Two new studies reveal the most closely related Native American ancestor...
: East Asians reshaping their skulls thousands of years ago; At Houtaomuga, in China, 11 of 25 skeletons dating to between around 12,000 and 5,000 years ago feature skulls with artificially elongated braincases and flattened bones at the front and...
: Largest known Iberian-era building discovered; In the middle of the Bronze Age, sometime between 2100 and 1500 BCE, a group of people settled on a cliff more than 60 metres above a strategic north-south route...
: Ancient high-altitude human dwelling in Ethiopia; For decades, paleoanthropologists working in east Africa have concentrated on lower-altitude locations. Archaeologists have assumed that towering mountains and plateaus were among the last places to be populated by ancient...
27 August 2019: 3,800-year-old mural unveiled by Peru archaeologists; A mural thought to be 3,800 years old has been revealed by archaeologists in Peru. The wall was found inside a public ceremonial building at the Vichama site, north of...
: Sandstone sculptures from the Danube puzzle archaeologists; About 8,000 years ago, over a period of perhaps 200 years, artists that lived at Lepenski Vir - a settlement on the banks of the Danube - carved about 100...
: Stone Age boat building site discovered off the British coast; A Stone Age boat building site with technological developments not thought to have been developed for thousands more years has been discovered off the U.K. coast. The site, which is...