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News - Denisovan Fossils and Possible Tools Uncovered in China - Archaeology Magazine (opens the original)
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YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA—Science News reports that fossils from at least three Denisovan individuals who lived between 167,000 and 134,000 years ago have been discovered in southwestern China's Bianfu Cave by a team of researchers led by Huiyn Rao, Song Xing, and Fan Bai of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Qijun Ruan of the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology; and Yuhao Zhao of Peking University. The hominin remains, including four teeth, two pieces of a skull, and a fra
News - Study Tests “Natural Kiln Hypothesis” - Archaeology Magazine (opens the original)
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Wildfires may have inspired Neolithic communities in the southern Levant to make pottery, according to a statement released by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Amos Frumkin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his colleagues gathered information about ancient wildfires from lake sediments and cave formations dated to between some 129,000 and 116,000 years ago, and again between about 11,000 and 7,000 years ago. Evidence of extensive wildfires and severe erosion was foun
News - Indonesian Hunter-Gatherers May Have Treated Toothaches with Betel Nuts - Archaeology Magazine (opens the original)
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QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA—Betel nuts, a type of palm seed (Areca catechu) containing a neuroactive substance called arecoline, were repeatedly sucked by hunter-gatherers living on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, Live Science reports. Adam Brumm of Griffith University and his colleagues examined grooves in the heavily damaged teeth of two individuals. The first was a man who died between 25,000 and 16,000 years ago, while the second person lived on the island between about 7,600 and 6,300 years ag
News - Source of Megalithic Monument in Yorkshire Identified - Archaeology Magazine (opens the original)
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YORK, ENGLAND—According to a SciNews report, Anthony Clarke of Curtin University and his colleagues analyzed zircon and apatite crystals in the Devil’s Arrows—three megaliths standing in alignment in North Yorkshire—in an effort to trace their origins. The stones, each of which weighs more than 25 tons, are thought to have been erected around 2000 B.C. The monument is believed to have had a fourth stone that was broken up and reused in antiquity. “The Arrows are the tallest surviving standing st
News - Moche Pottery Center Excavated - Archaeology Magazine (opens the original)
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LA LIBERTAD, PERU—The Art Newspaper reports that excavations at the site of Cerro Mayal in northern Peru's Chicama Valley are offering archaeologists a more refined understanding of the production of Moche pottery, which is known for its mold-made vessels and ornate painted decoration. The Moche culture inhabited sites along the northern coast from about A.D. 100 to 800. In the site's top layers, a team led by archaeologist Henry Tantaleán of the National University of San Marcos' Chicama Archae
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