There’s nothing quite so romantic as the idea of digging up a lost civilization no one had previously known about. It happens to archaeologists all the time — in fiction. But in reality most of the “lost civilizations” of the ….
Category: Prehistory
Gobekli Tepe most likely was not a temple, as archaeologists first proposed when they announced the site in 2008. Sadly, archaeologists tend to lump every stone surface they cannot explain into the category of temples, shrines, and altars. This is ….
The Economist has reported on a recent linguistic study by Dr. Quentin Atkinson, of the University of Auckland, in New Zealand. Dr. Atkinson compared phonemes from over 500 languages around the world and used each language’s phoneme complexity to triangulate ….
Scientists in Saudi Arabia disclosed this week the discovery of artifacts from a lost 9,000-year-old culture that has been dubbed the “Al-Maqar Civilization”. Al-Maqar is a region in central Saudi Arabia that, until now, had not attracted much scientific interest. ….
In a lengthy discussion titled Africa 60,000 Years Ago: The Age of Adam SF-Fandom founder Michael Martinez proposed an interpretative reading of a growing body of signals from the past 30-120,000 years of human existence in and near Africa. DNA ….
We don’t think about the multi-generational consequences of the innovations we develop but the long-term impacts of advances in human activities have had a profound impact on both our health and our own development. A study published last year suggests ….
Bronze-age warfare in northern Europe is difficult to study. We have no surviving epic poems from that era. Nor do we have any major archaeological sites such as lost cities which may reveal clues about ancient wars. Nonetheless, through the ….
New research about the ancient fortress at Tel Qudadi near Tel Aviv suggests that the fortress — once believed to have been built by King Solomon — was probably an Assyrian outpost supported by a local population. The fortress may ….