Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey is a temple that has been dated to more than 11,000 years ago, making it the oldest known temple in the world. Recent findings there include human skull fragments from three individua...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/06/28/The-Worlds-Oldest-Known-Temple-Was-Home-to-a-Skull-Cult/In 1945, an excavation of a Native American mound in Illinois revealed around a thousand shell and pearl beads, and 22 beads iron beads. Where did those come from? The people that lived there 2,000 years ago, as the arti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/18/The-Mystery-of-the-2000-Year-Old-Iron-Beads/Some human teeth have been found in Italy that show evidence of dentistry around 13,000 years ago, even earlier than the development of grain cereals, which are blamed for a lot of tooth decay. Earlier teeth had been fou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/04/08/Ice-Age-Dentistry/We've read about excavations in Ireland and other places where precautions were taken to ensure the corpse didn't reanimate as a vampire or zombie. It turns out that England may have been afraid of the same thing. An arc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/04/03/First-Evidence-in-England-of-Burning-Dead-Bodies-to-Keep-Them-From-Rising/[https://youtu.be/qmyUAVm5ooY] (YouTube link)What'... ...YouTube link)What's been going on in the world of archaeology ? John Green fills us in on new stuff, big stuff,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/29/29-Interesting-Archaeological-Discoveries/Meet Context 958. That's just his scientific designation. We don't know his name, but we have some idea of what the man looked like when he was alive during the 13th century, thanks to a facial reconstruction done on a s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/21/The-Haunting-Face-of-a-Man-Who-Lived-700-Years-Ago/Vikings settled in Greenland from 985 CE to somewhere around 1424, then all written records of them vanished. The conventional wisdom is that they flourished in the northern island during the Medieval Warm Period, then c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/02/24/Why-Did-Greenlands-Vikings-Vanish/One of the many things I liked about Rogue One was that it occasionally drew attention to things that weren't explained -just like real life. Overexplaining every McGuffin or expanded universe detail tends to drag one's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/01/11/A-Handy-Guide-to-the-Archaeology-of-Rogue-One-A-Star-Wars-Story/Married archaeologists Jack Davis and Sharon Stocker wanted to explore the grounds in Pylos, Greece, near the site of the palace of King Nestor, a Mycenaean king described in the Iliad. Denied their first choice of site,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/01/07/What-a-3500-Year-Old-Greek-Tomb-Tells-Us-About-the-Roots-of-Western-Civilization/The Great Dismal Swamp covers a vast area of south... ...historians and archaeologists. Before Sayers, no archaeology had been done in the swamp’s interior, main...
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