Archaeologists Create First 3D Model of Easter Island’s Primary Moai Quarry

Archaeologists Create First 3D Model of Easter Island’s Primary Moai Quarry

Ethnohistoric and current historical proof recommend that Easter Island (Rapa Nui) was a politically decentralized society arranged into little, fairly self-governing kin-based neighborhoods throughout the island. The more than 1,000…

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Archaeologists discover decapitated head the Romans used as a warning to the Celts

Archaeologists discover decapitated head the Romans used as a warning to the Celts

The skull as it was found in between stones in the Roman-era fort wall. (Image credit: Santiago D. Domínguez-Solera) Archaeologists have actually recuperated a single human skull from the walls…

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Archaeologists discover 1,500-year-old reindeer trap and other artifacts ‘melting out of the ice’ in Norway’s mountains

Archaeologists discover 1,500-year-old reindeer trap and other artifacts ‘melting out of the ice’ in Norway’s mountains

The reindeer searching center emerging from the ice in Norway. (Image credit: Thomas Bruen Olsen/University Museum of Bergen) High up in the icy mountains of Norway, archaeologists have actually found…

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Archaeologists Find 2.75-Million-Year-Old Stone Tools in Kenya

Archaeologists Find 2.75-Million-Year-Old Stone Tools in Kenya

Archaeologists have actually found Oldowan stone tools in 3 unique historical horizons, covering around 300,000 years (2.75 to 2.44 million years ago), at the website of Namorotukunan, part of the…

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French archaeologists uncover ‘vast Roman burial area’ with cremation graves ‘fed’ by liquid offerings

French archaeologists uncover ‘vast Roman burial area’ with cremation graves ‘fed’ by liquid offerings

A pyre was changed into a burial place with a roofing system at the website of Olbia. (Image credit: Sylvie Duchesne/ Inrap) Archaeologists excavating in the French Riviera have actually…

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Archaeologists Find Traces of Blue Pigment on 13,000-Year-Old Stone Artifact in Germany

Archaeologists Find Traces of Blue Pigment on 13,000-Year-Old Stone Artifact in Germany

Blue pigments are missing in Paleolithic art. This has actually been credited an absence of naturally happening blue pigments or low visual salience of these shades. Utilizing a suite of…

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Archaeologists Find Traces of Indigo Dye on 34,000-Year-Old Grinding Tools from Georgia

Archaeologists Find Traces of Indigo Dye on 34,000-Year-Old Grinding Tools from Georgia

Archaeologists from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and in other places have actually discovered traces of indigotin– a blue secondary substance, likewise called indigo– on unknapped ground stone tools…

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Archaeologists Find Residues of Aromatic Oils in Phoenicians Bottles

Archaeologists Find Residues of Aromatic Oils in Phoenicians Bottles

Archaeologists have actually carried out the very first organized, interdisciplinary analysis of the structure, innovation, and contents of 51 ‘Phoenician oil bottles’ from the island of Motya, off the west…

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Archaeologists discover that parties 11,000 years ago were BYOB — bring your own boar

Archaeologists discover that parties 11,000 years ago were BYOB — bring your own boar

Creative representation of individuals bringing a swine to an ancient banquet. (Image credit: Kathryn Killackey ) Have you ever came by the supermarket on your method to a supper celebration…

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Archaeologists Find 3,500-Year-Old Traces of Rice in Guam

Archaeologists Find 3,500-Year-Old Traces of Rice in Guam

Rice was a staple crop in the ancestral Austronesian areas of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia, however it was unidentified in any of the Pacific Islands at the time of…

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