ancient archeology

Tests to determine age of Cerne Abbas Giant 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 1, 2020
Archaeologists are hoping to establish the age of an ancient naked figure sculpted into a chalk hillside.

By David Aragorn
Scientists discover three new species of pterosaurs in the Sahara 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 31, 2020
Reptiles inhabited prehistoric Morocco 100m years ago

By David Aragorn
A Mysterious 25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 26, 2020
The purpose of such an elaborate structure remains a big open question

By David Aragorn
Fossil hunters find evidence of 555m-year-old human relative 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 25, 2020
Ikaria wariootia is half the size of a grain of rice and an early example of a bilateral organism

By David Aragorn
Researchers discover ‘dinosaur stomping ground’ on Skye 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 21, 2020
Researchers from Edinburgh university have discovered a new dinosaur “stomping ground” on Skye.

By David Aragorn
Fins of prehistoric fish reveal origins of the human hand 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 20, 2020
Inside the stout fins of a fish that prowled the shallow waters of an estuary in what is now eastern Canada about 380 million years ago, scientists have found what they call the evolutionary origins of the human hand.

By David Aragorn
‘Wonderchicken’ is the earliest known modern bird at nearly 67 million years old 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 19, 2020
The animal is a common ancestor of today’s ducks and chickens

By David Aragorn
‘Little Foot’ skull reveals how this more than 3 million year old human ancestor lived 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 18, 2020
High-resolution micro-CT scanning of the skull of the fossil specimen known as “Little Foot” has revealed some aspects of how this Australopithecus species used to live more than 3 million years ago.

By David Aragorn
Ancient mantis-man petroglyph discovered in Iran 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 17, 2020
A unique rock carving found in the Teymareh rock art site (Khomein county) in Central Iran with six limbs has been described as part man, part mantis. Rock carvings, or petroglyphs, of invertebrate animals are rare, so entomologists teamed up with archaeologists to try and identify the motif. They compared the carving with others around the world and with the local six-legged creatures which its prehistoric artists could have encountered.

By David Aragorn
“Cosmic Fire” –1st Evidence of a Comet Destroying Prehistoric Human Settlement 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 11, 2020
“Our new discoveries represent much more powerful evidence for very high temperatures that could only be associated with a cosmic impact. To help with perspective, such high temperatures would completely melt an automobile in less than a minute,” said James Kennett, a UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor of geology, who with his colleagues first reported evidence of an event in 2012 of the direct effects of a fragmented comet on a human settlement. Such intensity, he added, could only have resulted from an extremely violent, high-energy, high-velocity phenomenon, something on the order of a cosmic impact.

By David Aragorn