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Anthropology and Archaeology
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In the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq archaeologists have discovered an ancient city called Idu, hidden beneath a mound.
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Human-like beings before our species likely handcrafted sophisticated tools, suggests newly discovered prehistoric stone-tipped throwing spears found in Ethiopia. Continue reading →
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Did aliens build a toilet in China? Maybe not, but these 10 fascinating historical artifacts from around the world certainly provide fodder for strange theories.
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Amazing Metropolis Discovered in Africa is 200,000 years old!
Kyle Kunkel O'Connor's curator insight,
July 2, 2013 1:37 AM
antrhopology, archyology, human orgins,
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In the ruins of a city that was once Rome's neighbor, archaeologists last summer found a 1,000-pound lead coffin.
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There is perhaps nothing else so distinctive of the condition and character of a people as the method in which they treat their dead. - William Tegg, 1876Throughout the history of human...
Kyle Kunkel O'Connor's insight:
death, tomb, legacy, past, archyology, anthropology
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Properly piecing together a rare early human skull (12,000 to 15,000 years old!
Kyle Kunkel O'Connor's insight:
ostyology bones
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New dates also show life started recovering while eruptions were in progress. 
Brent Madaris's curator insight,
April 11, 2013 4:01 PM
Some of this information could easily fit in with the Biblical account of Noah's flood when "all the fountains of the great deep were broken up." (Genesis 7:11)
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Kyle Kunkel O'Connor's insight:
Black holes and pianos. background noise |
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There are very few truly uncontacted peoples left in the world -- that is, people who have never been colonized or settled or had their mineral rights exploited, who know virtually nothing of the outside world, and about whom the outside world...
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The invention of the bow and arrow allowed users to shoot projectiles more rapidly and more accurately than with the traditional spear. A new theory argues that this innovation resulted in more than just a technological revolution.
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Archaeologists have found skeletal remains of an entire army in an ancient mass grave in Denmark. The bones confirm reports from written sources of shocking Teutonic massacres.
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The genetic lineage of Europe mysteriously transformed about 4,500 years ago, new research suggests.
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By Tia GhoseLiveScience Scientists have unearthed extraordinarily preserved fossils of a 520-million-year-old sea creature, one of the earliest animal fossils ever found, according to a new study.
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Kyle Kunkel O'Connor's insight:
archology, anthropolgy, underwater archyology, ship wreck
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The Lozoya River Valley could help clear up mysteries surrounding extinct species
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Because Neanderthals devoted more brain space to processing sight, they had less room for social cognition and may have died out as a result
Kyle Kunkel O'Connor's insight:
Neanderthals brains, evolutionary adaptations, evolutions, human orgins.
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ReutersOSLO — A pre-Viking woolen tunic found beside a thawing glacier in south Norway shows how global warming is proving something of a boon for archaeology, scientists said on Thursday. |
