Image shows detail of Stone Age depictions of human footprints and animal tracks in Doro Nawas mountains, Namibia, undated photo. The carvings date back to the Later Stone Age. (Andreas Pastoors, Tracking in Caves/Newsflash)

Namibian Animal Tracking Experts Help German Archaeologists Match Footprint Pictures To Animals

• Post author:Thomas Hochwarter
• Post published:September 26, 2023

Archaeologists examining prehistoric artwork of footprints up to 50,000 years old in southwest Africa have been able to determine the type of animals and even their likely ages by cooperating…

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Image shows an illustration of how the Schoeningen area possibly looked about 300,000 years ago, undated photo. It is located in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. (Benoit Clarys/Newsflash)

Ancient Human Footprints Dating Back 300,000 Years Found Next To Prehistoric Elephant Tracks

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:September 8, 2023

Experts have discovered ancient human footprints in Germany dating back 300,000 years right next to sets of tracks left by prehistoric elephants. The footprints, which can be seen in the…

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Image shows the grave of a man aged 22-27, undated photo. He died of the plague around 4,000 years ago at a burial ground in the municipality of Drasenhofen, Lower Austria State, Austria. (OeAW, Archaeprotect/Newsflash)

4,000 Year Old Corpses Were Victims Of Black Death

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:August 24, 2023

The 4,000-year-old bodies of two prehistoric men have been identified as among the world's oldest known plague victims. The two Early Bronze Age corpses - aged between 22 and 30…

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Image shows the Panagrolaimus kolymaensis nematode, undated photo. It was discovered by researchers from the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS in Russia in the Siberian Permafrost. (Alexei V. Tchesunov and Anastasia Shatilovich, Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS/Newsflash)

Scientists Revive Ice Age Roundworm

• Post author:Thomas Hochwarter
• Post published:August 12, 2023

Scientists in Germany have reanimated a roundworm from the Siberian permafrost that had laid dormant for nearly 50,000 years. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Saxony State, thawed…

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Now Scientists Say African Grasslands Are 10 Million Years Older

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:April 26, 2023

African savannahs which cover more than a third of the Earth's surface emerged 10 million years earlier than scientists once thought, a new study has revealed. Soil studies and anaylising…

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Image shows an example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food, undated photo. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in the city of Leipzig, Germany, claimed that some accidentally produced stone fragments made by macaques resemble some of the earliest hominin stone artifacts. ( Lydia V. Luncz/Newsflash)

Ancient Stone Age Human Tools Could Have Been Made By Monkeys, Says Study

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:March 21, 2023

New research into ancient tools has revealed that cutting stones once believed to be made by early humans could actually have been the work of monkeys. Scientists from the Max…

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Image shows a reconstruction of a hunter gatherer associated with the Gravettian culture (32,000-24,000 years ago), undated photo. It was inspired by the archaeological findings at the Arene Candide site, in Italy. (Tom Bjoerklund/Newsflash)

People During Last Ice Age Who Sought Shelter In Spain And Portugal Survived Unlike Their Relatives In Italy

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:March 8, 2023

A new study has revealed that only hunter-gatherers who sought refuge in Spain and Portugal survived the last Ice Age 30,000 years ago. Using new DNA analysis of prehistoric human…

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Image shows two of the 38 decapitated skeletons, undated photo. The scientists still do not know why their heads were removed in the town of Vrable, in the Nitra Region, Slovakia. (Dr Till Kuehl, Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University/Newsflash )

Mass Grave With 38 Headless Skeletons Found At 7,000-Year-Old Site

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:January 19, 2023

A 7,000-year-old prehistoric grave with 38 decapitated skeletons could contain the remains of victims of Stone Age headhunters, it has emerged. Astonished archaeologists unearthed the mass grave in Slovakia where…

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Photo shows the flint finds uncovered during the excavation in the right tray and the Ostrich eggshell fragments in the left tray, undated. Ostrich eggs believed to be 4000-year-old were uncovered in the Negev in Israel. (Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority/Newsflash)

Ancient Ostrich Eggs Found At Prehistoric BBQ

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:January 17, 2023

Ostrich eggs dating back up to 7,500 years have been found beside a prehistoric barbecue pit where a tribe of hunter-gatherers cooked giant omelettes. The astonishing desert discovery was made…

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Image shows the remains of a whole herd of ibex found on the Lodner mountain, undated photo. Four climbers found remains of at least 15 animals dating back to the Neolithic Age on the Lodner mountain, in the Oetztal Alps in South Tyrol, Italy, in July 2022. (LPA, Forststation St. Leonhard/Newsflash)

Mystery Animals Frozen Under Glacier Were Bodies Of 7000-Year-Old Wild Goats

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:December 19, 2022

These devilish-looking horned skulls spotted by climbers in the Italian Alps have been identified by UK scientists as belonging to prehistoric wild goats that died more than 7,000 years ago.…

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