#archeology — Public Fediverse posts
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Blood may have helped ancient Chinese rock art survive for 2,000 years
Ancient paintings on limestone cliffs in southern China have survived more than 2,000 years of heat, rain, and storms. A new study suggests their unusual durability came from a paint binder made from lime and blood...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/08/blood-in-ancient-chinese-rock-art/
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Norfolk Bronze Age axe hoard includes rare button – The History Blog
https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/76794"The hoard was discovered by metal detectorists in two stages. One socketed axe was found in March 2021. The second socketed axe and the button were found in 2023. The objects date to between 1000 B.C. and 700 B.C.
The button is circular with a central boss set in a deep concave circle that rises to a thick outer rim."
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Roman women used public banquets to gain status and honor in Hispania
Roman women played a larger role in public banquets than ancient accounts often suggest. A new study of Latin inscriptions from Hispania shows how wealthy women paid for communal meals and used them to build public status. The study examines 36 inscriptions dating from the late first century BCE to the third century CE...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/08/roman-women-used-public-banquets-in-hispania/
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Study exposes the real “mummy’s curse” behind the trade in mummified remains
A new study from the University of Staffordshire has found health risks linked to online sales of mummified human as well as animal remains. Researchers reviewed 128 posts from social media, online stores, e-commerce sites, as well as auction houses...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/08/mummy-curse-behind-the-trade-in-mummified-remains/
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How Humans’ Ancestors Lost Their Tails 25 MillionYears Ago
https://buymeacoffee.com/newscafe/how-humans-ancestors-lost-their-tails-25-millionyears-ago
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Earliest dragon and phoenix combination found in northern China – The History Blog
https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/76790"The earliest known clearly identifiable figures of the dragon and phoenix combination in northern China have been discovered in a tomb at the Zhaizita Stone City site in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. It dates to around 2300 B.C., the middle-to-late Longshan Culture period."
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Early cereal grain growth was shaped by water, not early farming, study finds
Early Neolithic cereals grew larger in parts of southwest Asia because of wetter growing conditions, rather than human selection through tilling. A new study combines plant remains, carbon isotopes and weed evidence to trace how cereal domestication began in the southern Levant...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/08/cereal-grain-growth-was-shaped-by-water/
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Engineers Find Evidence of Hydraulics In An Ancient Pyramid
Anton Petrus//Getty Images Hydraulic mechanics may have indeed been the driving force behind the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids. In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt believed to be the oldest of the seven monumental pyramids and potentially constructed about 4,500 years ago offers a remarkable blueprint for hydraulic engineering………Continue reading… By: Tim Newcomb Source: Popilar […] -
Ancient copper bells reveal ritual sound among the Yampara during the Inca period
Six copper bells found at an ancient Yampara site in Bolivia formed part of a carefully arranged ritual offering. The bells came from Yoroma, a large settlement in the Oroncota Valley. During the Inca imperial expansion (CE 1300–1536), Yoroma served as an important Yampara center...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/08/copper-bells-ritual-sound-among-the-yampara/
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The False Story of Pyramid Destruction - YouTube
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Bronze Age “enigmatic tablet” found in northern Italy – The History Blog
https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/76785"The tablets, usually made of clay but sometimes of stone, feature incised lines and impressions of geometric shapes including triangles, squares and circles. The oldest of the tablets are predominately characterized by impressed dots."
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Ancient Colombian farmers built a vast water system without central rulers
Thousands of years ago, communities in Colombia’s Caribbean lowlands built one of South America’s largest water systems. New research shows local groups likely worked together without a powerful ruler directing the work. The pre-Hispanic field systems of La Mojana covered more than 500,000 hectares...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/08/colombian-farmers-water-system-without-central-rulers/
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Lost letter from Pope links 1066 Norman Conquest to a wider Church conflict
The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 has long centered on a fight for the English crown. New research argues Rome also played a major part in the story...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/08/lost-letter-from-pope-1066-norman-conquest/
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#evolution #paleogenomics #archeology #Jomon
"Ancient Humans May Have Evolved a Remarkable Trick to Survive The Last Ice Age
When you think about it, it seems remarkable that humanity is still here.
Over the last few hundred thousand years, the world has changed a lot, sometimes in ways that might seem difficult for evolution to keep pace with.
Yet our species is remarkably resilient, repeatedly finding ways to survive changing conditions – through culture, technology, and even genetic changes.
Humanity is still evolving – and the genetic adaptability that allows us to thrive around the world today may have also contributed to past success, according to new genetic research from a team led by Yusuke Watanabe and Yoshiki Wakiyama of the University of Tokyo.
They analyzed genomes from 42 Jomon hunter-gatherers who lived in the Japanese archipelago, finding multiple genetic signatures consistent with adaptations to cold conditions in their much older ancestors."
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Archaeologists Triple the Scale of an Ancient Amazonian Civilization We Know Almost Nothing About
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12,900-year-old Epipaleolithic site found at Koskarlı Cave in Turkey
Koskarlı Cave in Turkey has revealed an intact hunter-gatherer occupation dating to about 12,900 to 12,000 years ago. The find provides the first systematic evidence of Epipaleolithic occupation in the eastern Black Sea region...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/08/koskarli-cave-hunter-gatherers/
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When the Roman emperor Tiberius turned a cave on the coast between Rome and Naples, into a private dining hall, the Odyssey was already about 700 years old. At the deepest point of the cave Tiberius placed a massive marble sculpture that showed the moment when Odysseus blinds the Cyclops, Polyphemus, a one-eyed man-eating giant.
In 26 AD, while Tiberius was dining there, rocks fell from the roof of the grotto, crushing several of his attendants and nearly killing the emperor. In that collapse, the great marble figures were smashed, and there they lay, at the bottom of the cave, until 1957, when workers building a coastal road cut into the ground and found them.
Slowly, piece by piece, the scene was meticulously put back together, and the sculptures now reside at the Sperlonga Archaeological Museum.
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Ancient genomes reveal how migration and diet shaped the ancestors of modern Japanese people
Two ancient genomes from Japan are giving researchers a closer look at how migration, climate and diet shaped the ancestors of modern Japanese people. A team led by Koji Ishiya of Kanazawa University recovered unusually detailed DNA data from two individuals who lived thousands of years apart...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/08/genome-reveals-ancient-roots-of-modern-japanese-population/
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6,000-year-old necropolis and ancient settlement found in Egypt’s eastern Delta
Egyptian archaeologists have found a large cemetery and a residential area at Kom el-Khilgan in Dakahlia Governorate. The site records human activity from the Predynastic Period through the Greek and Roman eras. The cemetery began during the first half of the fourth millennium BCE, when Lower Egyptian culture...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/08/necropolis-and-settlement-at-kom-el-khilgan/
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Roman-era building with colorful mosaics and frescoes found beneath Rome’s Villa Celimontana
Archaeologists have uncovered an Imperial-era building with rich mosaics, frescoes, and marble decorations beneath Rome’s Villa Celimontana. The find came during work to stabilize the park’s historic retaining wall...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/08/roman-era-building-beneath-villa-celimontana/
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First confirmed trebuchet victim identified at Stirling Castle – The History Blog
https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/76752"A new examination of the skeletal remains of man killed seven centuries ago at Stirling Castle in Scotland has found his body was shattered by a blow from above that then pinned him to the ground. This is the first confirmed evidence of casualty inflicted by trebuchet."
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Grotta Azzurra: 200 anni fa la nascita di un mito https://www.avvenire.it/agora/cultura/grotta-azzurra-200-anni-fa-la-nascita-di-un-mito_112017
