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🧐 Ancient Beat #203: Big footprints, tiny bird carvings, and Mesolithic sailors

Twenty-one hominin footprints preserved at GaJi10 in northern Kenya’s Koobi Fora Formation capture at least eight individuals crossing a muddy lakeshore 1.43 million years ago. Most walked westward, apparently at roughly the same time, whil...

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🧐 Ancient Beat #202: Fish farming, female warriors, and visual syntax in cave art

Analysis of 500 painted and engraved motifs in nine caves across Spain’s Basque Country suggests that Paleolithic artists followed a shared visual structure rather than arranging animals randomly. The works were created roughly 16,000–14,00...

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🧐 Ancient Beat #201: Signatures, metropolises, and ceremonial landscapes

The first detailed ground survey of El Yesal, deep within the Balam Kú Biosphere Reserve in Campeche, Mexico, has mapped one of the largest Maya cities in the Central Lowlands. Its monumental center covers more than 0.4 square miles. The Gr...

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🧐 Ancient Beat #200: Ancient fossil collectors, shared Neanderthal/sapiens cultures, and the fall of the megalith builders

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🧐 Ancient Beat #199: Circles, monoliths, and rainforests

The old “humans evolved on the savanna” story is getting more complicated. Evidence now suggests early Homo sapiens may have used, and perhaps lived in, tropical forests far earlier than once thought. Part of the problem is preservation: ra...

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