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News - Study Reviews Seal Tooth Pendant from Kent's Cavern
3+ hour, 21+ min ago (102+ words) News April 10, 2026 Digs & Discoveries May/June 2016 The Unexpected World of the Odyssey May/June 2026 A Passion for Fruit May/June 2025 Northern France and England A look inside miniature worlds created for the living, the dead, and the divine Vivid frescoes…...
6, 000-Year-Old Monuments Reveal Hidden Patterns Across the Spain'Portugal Border
3+ hour, 22+ min ago (957+ words) The research focuses on the mountainous region of Serra do Laboreiro, a natural frontier where hundreds of burial mounds stretch across high plateaus and ridges. Rising between 700 and 1, 300 meters above sea level, this area acts as a natural laboratory for…...
Archaeologists in Poland find ancient society drank reduced-lactose milk in likely rituals
9+ hour, 36+ min ago (608+ words) Apr 10, 2026 | Culture, History Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of rituals involving drinking lactose-reduced dairy around 5, 500 years ago in what is now north-central Poland. The researchers note that lactose intolerance was widespread during that period. The excavations in S'aw'cinek, the site of…...
Greater Minnesota's population is growing, defying old narratives
6+ hour, 27+ min ago (1028+ words) Greater Minnesota's population trends weren't great in the 2010s. Most areas outside the seven-county Twin Cities metro had net losses from 2010 to 2019. Deaths outweighed births, more people were moving out than moving in, or both. Not to say the 2020s have been…...
6, 400-Year-Old Moroccan Woman Reconstructed from Skhirat Burial
13+ hour, 28+ min ago (175+ words) Researchers have reconstructed the face of a 6, 400-year-old woman discovered at the Skhirat-Rouazi site near Skhirat, offering new insight into prehistoric populations in North Africa, based on skeletal and genetic analysis of remains labeled SKH001, according to findings shared by the…...
Finding in Poland Reveals Lactose-Free Milk Drinking Rituals and Female Secret Societies in the Neolithic
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (793+ words) An international team of archaeologists has discovered at the S'aw'cinek site, in central Poland, a set of ceramic vessels demonstrating that more than 5, 000 years ago collective rituals with low-lactose dairy drinks were already being celebrated. The discovery, published in the…...
News - Milk Beverage Residues Detected on Neolithic Pottery in Poland
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (127+ words) News April 9, 2026 Why Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers in the Alps built their villages on stilts Model Homes March/April 2026 LOCATION: North Macedonia DATES: Ca. 64005500 b. c. Letter from France January/February 2026 How farmers came together to build Europe's most grandiose funerary…...
Learn your lesson." 2, 100-year-old projectile with sarcastic inscription discovered
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (353+ words) The projectile is notable for having a humorous message, given that most similar inscribed projectiles were often named after generals or commanders. Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a lead projectile about 2100 years old which may contain one of the oldest…...
Specialised and persistent raw material procurement by humans in the Middle Pleistocene - Nature Communications
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (1749+ words) a View on the excavation of Jojosi 6 in 2023. b Primary hornfels outcrop as a raw material source for stone tool knapping. c Exemplary view of the erosional landscape of the Jojosi Dongas. d Map icons in (a) by Dong Ik Seo,…...
Native Americans created dice more than 12, 000 years ago, study finds
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (319+ words) A new Colorado State University study reveals that'the earliest known dice'in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12, 000 years ago. This was at the end of the last Ice Age…...