Alpine Neanderthal Toolkit Examined FERRARA, ITALY—The reevaluation of 16 flint and radiolarite tools found among bear remains in a cave in the Alps suggests that traveling Neanderthals carried the stone tools with them, according to a Phys.org report. Microscopic examination of the tools by Davide Delpiano of the University of Ferrara and his colleagues detected […]
New evidence suggests that women discovered in a medieval cemetery may have belonged to an early female religious community. Source: BBC News
“Java Man” Fossils Returned to Indonesia AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS—The Homo erectus fossils known as “Java Man” have been returned to Indonesia, where they will be housed at the National Museum of Indonesia in Jakarta, according to an Arab News report. The skullcap, molar, and thigh bone, now thought to have come from different individuals, are
Slab of the top section of a stalagmite DUBLIN, IRELAND—According to a Live Science report, declining rainfall and a volcanic eruption some 50,000 years ago may have led to the extinction of Homo floresiensis. This small hominin, also called a “hobbit,” is known from fossils discovered in Liang Bua, a cave on the Indonesian island
USAK, TURKEY—The Anadolu Agency reports that a stadium has been uncovered in western Turkey’s ancient site of Blaundos, a naturally fortified hilltop city founded as a garrison for Macedonian soldiers during Alexander the Great’s Anatolian campaigns. Serif Soyler of the Usak Museum said that a stepped entrance has been found at the front of the
Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for reinterpretation. Over centuries, writers, politicians, and artists reshaped these stories to reflect their own worldviews, from romantic heroism to dangerous nationalist myths. Pop culture and neo-paganism continue to amplify selective versions of this past. Scholars today are
Around 115 million years ago, northern Australia’s seas hosted a colossal shark that rewrites what we thought we knew about early ocean predators. New fossil discoveries show that modern-type sharks were experimenting with gigantic sizes far earlier than scientists believed, competing with the marine “monsters” of the dinosaur age. Source: All Top News — ScienceDaily
WARSAW, POLAND—According to a Live Science report, a metal tool that may have been used to scrape a hole in human skulls has been found at the Celtic fortified settlement site of Łysa Góra, which is located in east-central Poland. Bartłomiej Kaczyński of the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw said that the object had been
