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🧐 Ancient Beat #208: Big rocks, psychoactive nuts, and the peopling of Ireland
Rock art identified in eight caves in southwest Ireland may push known human activity on the island back to at least 15,000 years ago—about 5,000 years earlier than previously accepted evidence. During the Ice Age, lower sea levels may have...
🧐 Ancient Beat #207: Rituals, hoards, and hips
A new analysis of the pelvis of Homo floresiensis, the diminutive human relative discovered on Flores, Indonesia, suggests the species walked more like members of the genus Homo than like earlier australopithecines. The study examined LB1,...
🧐 Ancient Beat #206: Cryptic markings, astronomical sanctuaries, and lots of statues
Eleven engraved obsidian arrowheads dating to roughly 9,000–8,000 years ago have been identified at Tepecik-Çiftlik in central Anatolia, Turkey, bringing the regional total to just 54 among thousands of known obsidian points. Each carries a...
🧐 Ancient Beat #205: Symbolic art, cow-bears, and really big Denisovans
Two fossilized Denisovan leg bones dredged decades ago from the Penghu Channel in the Taiwan Strait suggest some members of this archaic human group were exceptionally large. Ancient proteins identified a Denisovan-specific collagen variant...
🧐 Ancient Beat #204: Star gazing, hunting strategies, and stones shaped like people
Ancient DNA suggests Ice Age hunters deliberately targeted female woolly mammoths rather than killing males and females equally. Genetic analysis covered 521 mammoths spanning roughly 50,000 years, including 100 animals whose bones accumula...
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