Approval has been given for the construction of a museum at the archaeological site of Eleutherna, Rethymnon, by the Directorate of Museums, Exhibitions and Educational Programmes of the Ministry of Culture after a study by archaeologist Professor Nikolaos Stampolidis. The very first museum on an archaelogical site in Crete may be implemented within 20 months if there are no bureaucratic
In wine there is truth, in vino veritas, as the ancient Romans put it. And the truth is that people first cultivated grapes for vino about 8,000 years ago, finds a genetics study. In the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Sean Myles of Cornell, looked at “1,000 samples of the domesticated
New research into Neanderthal skulls suggests that facial features believed for over a century to be adaptations to extreme cold are unlikely to have evolved in response to glacial periods after all. Neanderthal faces had prominent cheekbones and wide noses previously thought to have developed in extremely cold periods because large sinuses were needed to warm air as it was
Visitors are causing so much damage to the tomb of Tutankhamun that Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities wants to close it and open a replica instead. What excites us about the past is being there: feeling the heat as we climb a Mexican pyramid; adjusting our eyes to the light in the Pantheon; watching the paint peel off the walls
Last month scientists revealed remarkable evidence of a new group of ancient humans called Denisovans that interbred with our species and left behind a genetic trace in people living in south east Asia today. An international team, including scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, carried out a genetic study of a finger bone and a large molar tooth
Το Πικέρμι απέμεινε με το διεθνή χαρακτηρισμό της «Ακρόπολης» της Παλαιοντολογίας… Τα μοναδικά απολιθώματα, σπονδυλωτών που έζησαν στην περιοχή πριν από 7 εκατ. χρόνια, εντοπίστηκαν τυχαία επί Βαυαροκρατίας, αποκαλύφθηκαν τότε, αλλά και σε ύστερες ανασκαφές ξένων παλαιοντολόγων, για να καταλήξουν, τα περισσότερα στις προθήκες ευρωπαϊκών Μουσείων Φυσικής Ιστορίας. Μετά τον εμπλουτισμό τους, με νέες ανασκαφές των καθηγητών Συμεωνίδη και Μαρίνου
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Croatia does not have a reputation as a hotbed of ancient agriculture. But new excavations, described January 7 in San Antonio at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, unveil a Mediterranean Sea–hugging strip of southern Croatia as a hub for early farmers who spread their sedentary lifestyle from the Middle East into Europe. Farming villages sprouted swiftly
Dans le sud de la Crète, des outils faits de mains d’Homo et datant de plus de 130.000 ans témoignent d’une présence humaine alors que l’île en était déjà une. Des navires ont donc parcouru la Méditerranée bien plus tôt qu’on ne le pensait. Ce n’est pas une publication scientifique mais – pour l’instant – un simple communiqué de presse
During the first part of the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe, a large proportion of the population lived in what are known as tell-building societies. A thesis in archaeology from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) shows that the leaders of these societies had the ability to combine several sources of power in an effective way in
Athens, Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall, The Nikos Skalkotas Hall.
Thursday, 3 February 2011, 19:00h.
Organised by the Society for the Promotion of Studies on Prehistoric Thera.
A new University of Florida study following the evolution of lice shows modern humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago, a technology which enabled them to successfully migrate out of Africa.
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As if making the oldest known leather shoe wasn’t enough, a prehistoric people in what’s now Armenia also built the world’s oldest known winery, a new study says. Undertaken at a burial site, their winemaking may have been dedicated to the dead—and it likely required the removal of any fancy footwear. Near the village of Areni, in the same cave
Ενα νησάκι ανάμεσα στη Νίσυρο και στην Κω, το οποίο χάνεται σιγά-σιγά από το πρόσωπο της Γης, είναι το Γυαλί. Και αυτό λόγω του πλούτου του σε ηφαιστειακά πετρώματα _ κυρίως ελαφρόπετρα και περλίτη (φυσικό γυαλί) _ τα οποία εξορύσσονται αδιακόπως εδώ και 20 χρόνια. Αποτέλεσμα; Το ένα τμήμα του νησιού (αποτελείται από δύο λοφώδη τμήματα τα οποία συνδέονται από
Α new study by a Washington University in St. Louis suggests life expectancy was probably the same for early modern and late archaic humans and did not factor in the extinction of Neanderthals. Our species, Homo sapiens, is the only surviving lineage of the genus Homo. Still, there once were many others, all of whom could also be
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Την ανάδειξη του σπηλαίου Φράγχθι στην Αργολίδα, ενός από τα σημαντικότερα του ελληνικού χώρου, αφού θεωρείται πιθανό ότι έχει κατοικηθεί από τον άνθρωπο του Νεάντερταλ κατά την Μουστιαία περίοδο (40.000 χρόνια από σήμερα) αλλά σίγουρα από τον Homo Sapiens (30.000 χρόνια από σήμερα) αποφάσισε το υπουργείο Πολιτισμού προκειμένου να γίνει ευκολότερη η πρόσβαση των επισκεπτών και η ενημέρωσή τους.
