Archaeology

Neanderthal babies grew twice as fast as today’s toddlers

Jay Kakade — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:02:00 GMT

Our closest extinct relatives may have developed a very different growth trajectory from us. While modern humans follow a steady growth pattern, Neanderthals may have reached their physical and brain maturity much earlier in their lives, reports a newly published study.

Category: Archaeology, Science

Tags: Neanderthal, Human

Ancient Egyptian horoscopes uncover life under Emperor Augustus

Elizabeth Howell — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:02:00 GMT

Broken pottery pieces at a site in ancient Upper Egypt show 150 horoscopes for ordinary people in the region, revealing the location as a hub of astrological and astronomical activities thousands of years ago.

Category: Archaeology, Science

Tags: Egypt

Tomb feathers from wild parrots reveal extensive ancient trade route

Jules Roscoe — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:32:00 GMT

Parrot feathers found at a thousand-year-old burial tomb in Peru provide new evidence for an expansive live bird trade network across the Andes Mountains that pre-dates the Inca Empire, a new study suggests.

Category: Archaeology, Science

Tags: Parrot, Birds, Inca, Archaeology, Australian National University

The oldest known evidence of stitched clothing

Jay Kakade — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:02:00 GMT

During the last ice age, when glaciers spread across the northern world, ancient humans had some serious adapting to do; our species wouldn't survive without developing new ways to keep warm. We got there by improving the ways we clothed ourselves using new tools, such as bone needles, traps, snares, and wooden artifacts - and these creations mark a crucial point in human evolution, as they helped our ancestors endure diverse conditions across different latitudes.

Category: Archaeology, Science

Tags: Clothing, Evolution, History, Human

8,000-year-old pottery suggests math predates writing

Jay Kakade — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:03:00 GMT

We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral designs found on the painted pottery sherds from the Halafian sites across northern Mesopotamia, dating back 8000 years.

Category: Archaeology, Science

Tags: Mathematics, Archeology, Evolution, Art

Mysterious human-like creatures shared island cave with humans

Mike Franco — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:37:50 GMT

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same cave. The enticing possibility even exists that both species overlapped, sharing the space at the same time.

Category: Archaeology, Science

Tags: Archeology, Fossils, Tools, Griffith University, Evolution

Neanderthals weren’t picky meat eaters – they munched on maggots, too

Jay Kakade — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:21:00 GMT

Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex predators like lions – feasting on big animals such as mammoths or bison. However, experts have been missing out on one of their key, fat-rich, and easily collectible food sources: Maggots.

Category: Archaeology, Science

Tags: Neanderthal, Diet, Protein, Purdue University, Red meat

Neanderthals were actually making fire 400,000 years ago

Jay Kakade — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 04:03:00 GMT

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like cooking food, staying warm, and protection from predators. For thousands of years, our ancestors progressed from scavenging flames around wildfires to tending them and, eventually, sparking them deliberately.

Category: Archaeology, Science

Tags: Fire, Archeology, Neanderthal, British Museum, History, Evolution

Mystery behind the collapse of the ancient Harappan empire finally solved

Jay Kakade — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 02:03:00 GMT

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries to Mesopotamians and Egyptians, has finally been identified: a series of severe, long-lasting droughts that dried rivers across the Indus Valley more than 4,000 years ago.

Category: Archaeology, Science

Tags: Archaeology, Weather, Evolution, Egypt

Armenia’s ancient 'dragon stones' are the work of a 6,000-year-old water cult

Bronwyn Thompson — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:17:00 GMT

Archeologists say they have finally cracked the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved monoliths scattered across high-altitude volcanic slopes and pastures where no ancient settlements ever existed.

Category: Archaeology, Science

Tags: Archeology, Stonehenge, Religion, Water, Europe, Geography, Environment