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The 550 Year Old Chimú Site in Las Llamas, Peru Is World’s Largest Child...
The pre-Columbian burial site of the Chimú civilization known as Las Llamas, in northern Peru contains the skeletons of 140 children who were between the ages of 5 and 14. Excavation work at the burial...
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Someone Butchered a Rhino in the Philippines 700,000 Years Ago, But Who?
Yesterday, Nature published an alarming find of butchered rhinoceros remains from the Kalinga site in the Cagayan Valley on Luzon in the Philippines. The long bones were clearly smashed as if to have...
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Growing ‘Mini-Brains’ With Neanderthal DNA
Svante Pääbo, director of evolutionary genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Photograph: Christian Jungeblodt Svante Pääbo, director of the genetics department at the Max...
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How did the Eastern Island Maoi Get 13-Ton Hats
One of my interests in the peopling of the Americas are the Easter Island maoi statues made by the Rapanui people. I’ve posted before about how they were moved. As if the moai themselves weren’t...
View ArticleA 43,900-year-old Cave Painting in Sulawesi, Indonesia is the Oldest Hunting...
Archaeologist Maxime Aubert, from Griffith University and his colleagues have published, in Nature, the discovery of the oldest depicted hunting story. The cave painting is thought to be 43,900 years...
View ArticleEngare Sero in Northern Tanzania Yield Largest Collection of Prehistoric...
This volcano in East Africa, called Ol Doinyo Lengai, erupted long ago and produced a mudflow that preserved the biggest collection of ancient human footprints (some shown in the foreground) found in...
View ArticleOldest Evidence of Ancient Cultivated Rice in Central Asia
Rice is the main food source for about half the population of the Earth, and it is arguably one of the most important foods for human beings. The origins of rice, as well as it spread is a key point of...
View ArticleRethinking Jared Diamond’s “Collapse” of Easter Island
Easter Island or Rapa Nui is famous for moai, giant monumental statues, which were built approx. 800 years ago by early inhabitants of the island. Many debate on the cultural significance of these...
View ArticleOldest & Largest Mayan Structure Discovered in Mexico
In Mexico's Tabasco state is the ancient Maya Aquada Fenix site. Using aerial remote-sensing, also known as LIDAR, University of Arizona archaeologist Takeshi Inomata and his team, discovered the...
View ArticleNew Archaeological Evidence of the First Americans to 33,000 Years Ago
Two new papers published in Nature, document the findings from the Chiquihuite Cave site in central Mexico. Artifacts from the site ere first discovered in 2010, but there were difficulties traveling...
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