Stone Pages Archaeo News: February 2020 Archives

February 2020 index:

1 February 2020: New evidence found for timing of human migration from Asia to America; During the Pleistocene Epoch (2,600,000 BCE to 9,700 BCE) there were various times when there was a land bridge between the continents of Asia and North America. These were commonly...
: 'Alien' graffiti defaces Neolithic Quoit in West Cornwall; On the West Penwith moors, in the far west of Cornwall (Great Britain) can be found several Neolithic Quoits. Prominent amongst those is Mulfra Quoit, the remains of a collapsed...
7 February 2020: Indian Copper Age site seriously damaged by roadworks; The Chalcolithic, or Copper Age, flourished in India during the period 5,000-800 BCE. The most important sites at this time were centered around the Indus Valley, although sites have been...
: Bronze Age cannibalism revealed in a Cheddar cave; There is a cave in Cheddar, Somerset (UK), known as Gough's Cave, which is believed to have had human occupation for over 9,000 years. Now a team of scientists, comprising...
12 February 2020: Prehistoric sheep-hunting camp in the Levant; Anthropologists have confirmed the existence of a more than 10,000-year-old hunting camp in what is now northeastern Lebanon, straddling the period marking the transition from nomadic hunter-gatherer societies to agricultural...
: Peruvian monument revealed after 2,000 years; In a high jungle in what is now northern Peru researchers have made a detailed 3D scan of a 2,000 yeae old stone monolith decorated with swirls, circular patterns, and...
: Stone tools reveal Neanderthal travels; Similarities between Neanderthal tools in Siberia and eastern Europe suggest Neanderthals crossed the Eurasian continent about 60,000 years ago - 40,000 years after an earlier migration. Unlike the more famous...
: 8,000-year-old figurine at Catalhoyuk; A human-like bone figurine around 8,000 years old has been found in Catalhoyuk, a proto-city settlement that existed from roughly 7500 BCE to 5700 BCE in what is now south...
: Modern Africans have some Neanderthal DNA; Africans have more Neanderthal ancestry than previously thought - though still less than most people outside of Africa. Neanderthals were our closest evolutionary relatives, inhabiting parts of Europe and Asia...
: Oldest known tree-ring dated wood structure; Oak wood used to build a box around a water well has been dated to about 7,275 years ago, making it the oldest known tree-ring dated wooden structure. The well...