Archaic humans such as Neanderthals may be gone but they’re not forgotten — at least not in the human genome. A genetic analysis of nearly 2,000 people from around the world indicates that such extinct species interbred with the ancestors of modern humans twice, leaving their genes within the DNA of people today.
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The idea that palaeolithic art is based in religious beliefs isn’t new. But for years, anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of art understood these artistic manifestations as purely aesthetic and decorative motives. Eduardo Palacio-Pérez, researcher at the University of Cantabria (UC), now reveals the origins of the theory.
Excavations began in the various archaeological sites that once housed farming communities, including Tel al-Abar 3 sites on the left bank of the Euphrates River (northern Syria) which dates back to the 10th millennium BC. Assistant Director of the Syrian Department of Archaeology and Museums Thaer Yerte said excavations at the site revealed information about the communities that settled on
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The oldest stone wall in Greece, which has stood at the entrance of a cave in Thessaly for the last 23,000 years, has been discovered by palaeontologists, the ministry of culture said 22 March 2010. The age of the find, determined by an optical dating test, singles it out as “probably one of the oldest in the world”, according to
Tal Bokrous is a sample of the first agricultural village built according to the architectural style of the Stone Age in Deir Ezzor, (432 kms northeast of Damascus, Syria). The site is the only archaeological discovery at the Middle Euphrates Region which belongs to the booming phase of the Neolithic era. The Neolithic era (New Stone Age), was a period
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Μυκηναϊκούς τάφους έφερε στο φως η ανασκαφή που διεξάγεται στη νεκρόπολη της Αιανής στην Κοζάνη αποδεικνύοντας τον ενιαίο πολιτισμό της εποχής του Χαλκού, που ήταν εξαπλωμένος σε όλο τον ελλαδικό χώρο, από την Κρήτη ως και τη Μακεδονία. «Ως τώρα έχουν εντοπισθεί περισσότερες από 20 θέσεις με μυκηναϊκά ευρήματα στον νομό της Κοζάνης, τα οποία είναι αδιάψευστοι μάρτυρες της κατοίκησης
Τη στιγμή που οι ανασκαφές του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης συρρικνώνονται, λόγω έλλειψης χρημάτων, η ΔΕΗ δίνει ευκαιρία για τη μεγαλύτερη σε έκταση ανασκαφή σε νεολιθικό οικισμό, στον Κλείτο Κοζάνης.
Paper by Georgia Stratouli, Sevi Triantafillou, Nikos Katsikaridis and Tasos Bekiaris on burial practices at the Neolithic settlement of Avgi, kastoria. The paper was presented at the Archaeological Work of Macedonia and Thrace, 11-13 March 2010, Thessaloniki.
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A team of archaeologists have unearthed five chamber tombs at Ayia Sotira, a cemetery in the Nemea Valley in Greece, just a few hours walk from the ancient city of Mycenae. The tombs date from 1350 – 1200 BC, the era in which Mycenae thrived as a major centre of Greek civilization. They contain the remains of 21 individuals who
Evidence of a powerful female bloodline emerges from the Iron Age necropolis of Orthi Petra at Eleutherna on Crete. For a quarter century, Greek excavation director Nicholas Stampolidis and his dedicated team have been unearthing the untold stories of the people buried some 2,800 years ago in the necropolis of Orthi Petra at Eleutherna on Crete. Until now, the site
Γεωφυσικές έρευνες στο λόφο της Κεφαλάς στην Κνωσό αποκάλυψαν ευρήματα από την αρχαιότερη αγροτική κατοικία στην Ελλάδα και ίσως στην Ευρώπη, η οποία χρονολογείται μεταξύ 7000 και 6400 π.Χ. Τη σημαντική αυτή ανακάλυψη παρουσίασε απόψε η διευθύντρια της Βρετανικής Σχολής στην Αθήνα και καθηγήτρια πανεπιστημίου κα Κάθριν Μόργκαν στην ετήσια ανοιχτή συνάντηση της Σχολής στο κτίριο της Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας. Η
Hadjidaki, a self-described “harbor girl,” was born and grew up in the Cretan seaside town of Chania. An experienced and passionate diver trained in classical archaeology, she received funding from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory in 2003 to search for early ships near Crete. “I always wanted to find a Minoan shipwreck,” she says, “so I started looking for one.”
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Prehistoric axes found on a Greek island suggest that seafaring existed in the Mediterranean more than a hundred thousand years earlier than thought.Two years ago a team of U.S. and Greek archaeologists were combing a gorge on the island of Crete (map) in Greece, hoping to find tiny stone tools employed by seafaring people who had plied nearby waters some
A temple complex in Turkey that predates even the pyramids is rewriting the story of human evolution. They call it potbelly hill, after the soft, round contour of this final lookout in southeastern Turkey. To the north are forested mountains. East of the hill lies the biblical plain of Harran, and to the south is the Syrian border, visible 20
