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🧐 Ancient Beat #214: Shipwrecks, footprints, and fingerprints on the Terracotta Army
Fingerprints preserved in China’s famous Terracotta Army suggest that women and children may have helped manufacture the thousands of life-sized figures created for the first Qin emperor’s mausoleum during the third century BCE. A study exa...
🧐 Ancient Beat #213: Observatories, basecamps, and hidden chambers
A geophysical investigation of the Grotta delle Veneri, or Cave of Venuses, near Parabita in southern Italy’s Puglia region has identified several underground anomalies that may represent previously unknown chambers. The limestone cave pres...
🧐 Ancient Beat #212: Sunken cities, tall palaces, and Neanderthal woodworking
A study of 597 wooden remains and impressions from Abric Romaní, a rock shelter near Barcelona, Spain, reveals that Neanderthals manufactured sophisticated wooden weapons, tools, and household objects between approximately 62,000 and 40,000...
🧐 Ancient Beat #211: Stone circles, butchered bones, and the first settlement of Paris
A roughly 65-foot-long stone-and-timber wall uncovered beneath the Hôtel-Dieu hospital on Paris’s Île de la Cité may be part of the defenses of Lutetia, the Iron Age settlement of the Gallic Parisii that preceded modern Paris. The wall bear...
🧐 Ancient Beat #210: Peace, education, and the first intact burial contexts at Göbeklitepe
The first two intact burial contexts found at Göbeklitepe in southeastern Turkey are changing interpretations of the site’s scattered human remains. Dating to about 8700–8000 BCE, one burial beneath a plaster floor contained at least three...
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