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Ancient Beat

James Fleischmann

All the latest news about the ancient world. Curated, summarized, and sent to your inbox weekly.

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🧐 Ancient Beat #188: Longstanding debates, sacred continuity, and sparkles

Hundreds of Lower Paleolithic hand axes discovered in the Sakhnin Valley in northern Israel, dated to ~500,000 years ago, include a rare subset deliberately crafted to highlight visually striking materials embedded in the stone. About 15 to...

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🧐 Ancient Beat #187: Hoards, rituals, and bows and arrows

Excavations near Melsonby in North Yorkshire revealed one of Britain’s most significant Iron Age hoards, dating roughly 100 BCE–70 CE. The deposit includes hundreds of metal objects—horse harness fittings, bridle bits, spearheads, cauldrons...

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🧐 Ancient Beat #186: Parrots, megaliths, and board games

A multidisciplinary study traced the origins of colorful parrot feathers found in an elite tomb at Pachacamac on Peru’s central coast, associated with the Ychsma culture (ca. 1000–1470 CE). The intact masonry tomb contained 34 funerary bund...

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🧐 Ancient Beat #185: Viking sea power, the Out-of-Africa timeline, and a 40,000-year-old precursor to writing

More than 260 artifacts from the Swabian Alps of southwestern Germany, dating between 45,000 and 34,000 years ago (~43,000–32,000 BCE), bear carved geometric signs that may represent an early notational system. Researchers analyzed roughly ...

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  • James Fleischmann

    Husband, father, founder, aspiring maker, writer, drummer, local business advocate, and independent researcher. Passionate about indie business, archaeology, anthropology, and the human story. Creator of Ancient Beat and SaaS Watch.

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