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Apr 17, 2024
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Why Culture Is Not the Only Tool for Defining Homo sapiens in Relation to Other Hominins – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology
Apr 16, 2024
We need a broad comparative lens to produce useful explanations and narratives of our origins across time.
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The Ten Tombs – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology
Apr 16, 2024
A renowned scholar shares his perspective and research on fascinating tombs and finds bearing on the historical Jesus and his times.
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Who were the Neanderthals, really? – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology
Apr 11, 2024
Long accepted paradigms on the Neanderthals are rapidly shifting based on new findings.
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The Red Queen of Palenque – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology
Apr 11, 2024
The archaeology and the story: The critical role a great Maya queen, and women generally, played in Maya society.
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Ancient centers of western Anatolia exemplify the movement of people and culture during the Late Bronze and Iron Age ... - Popular Archaeology
Apr 11, 2024
Recently, scholars have focused on changes and transitions among ancient civilizations and population centers of western Anatolia and the eastern Aegean with increasing interest, particularly during the transitional periods from the Late Bronze Age to the Classical period. Place names such as Wilusa (Troy), Millawanda (Miletus), Hattusa (of the Hittites), Apasa (Ephesus), Sardis, and population groups like the Luwians, Lydians, Lycians, Carians, and the Mycenaeans, all played prominent roles in events and activities of Bronze Age and Iron Age western and coastal Anatolia, and its interface with the rest of the Aegean world during those time periods.
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Beyond the Aegean: exploring ancient mobility in western Anatolia – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology
Apr 11, 2024
Mobility and change between ancient western Anatolia and the eastern Aegean was a complex and impactful process, says this scholar.
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Otium and the Roman Dream – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology
Apr 11, 2024
Ancient Rome's rich and famous lived in enviable style and excess, and the Roman villa was its quintessence.
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Research collaboration dates genetic lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy to late Pleistocene – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology
Apr 3, 2024
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE (AAAS)—A new study* describes a previously unidentified genetic lineage from which the modern-day Blood (Kainai) First Nation/Blackfoot Confederacy descended. Through comparisons of DNA from both Ancestral and modern-day Confederacy members, the work dates this Historic Blackfoot lineage to the late Pleistocene, corroborating established oral and archaeological records. The Blackfoot Confederacy is made of member tribes with ancestral ties to nomadic bison hunters that lived across the Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountain Front. Oral and archaeological records place them in this region during the end of the last glaciation by at least 10,000 years ago. Yet, the Blackfoot’s legacy has been contested frequently in land and water rights lawsuits. “The objectives of this study were not only to advance scientific knowledge about Indigenous genomic lineages that can provide insight into the peopling of the Americas but also to provide the Blackfoot with an independent line of evidence for evaluating purported ancestral relationships with other North American groups,” Dorothy First Rider and colleagues write. Here, First Rider et al. analyzed samples from 7 historical Ancestors and 6 living Blackfoot people. They found that ancient and modern DNA had a high proportion of shared alleles, demonstrating genetic continuity over millennia. Further modeling suggests that the Blood/Blackfoot ancient lineage split from other ancestral Indigenous American groups roughly 18,000 years ago. Athabascan and Karitiana then separated from this Historic Blackfoot group 13,000 years ago. Notably, the investigations help answer why Blackfoot language has minimal linguistic overlap with other Algic (or Indigenous North American) languages such as central Algonquian. “Certain elements of Blackfoot are older than proto-Algonquian language and likely were spoken by Indigenous peoples in the aboriginal homelands of the Blackfoot Confederacy,” the authors explain. “This finding changes the traditional anthropological assumption that the Blackfoot language (and, by extension, its speakers) originated in the North American Great Lakes, where Algonquian purportedly evolved.” They add that Historic Blackfoot likely traveled from west to east to end up in the Northwestern Plains.
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New findings on the world's oldest wooden hunting weapons – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology
Apr 1, 2024
Researchers shed new light on the famous wooden spears of Schöningen and the implications for early human hunting.
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