These Paleolithic Skulls Had Odd Tooth Damage. One Anthropologist Says It was Caused By Cheek Piercings.
The piercings many have been associated with community participation and major life events. Skulls from Paleolithic Europe’s ...
Archaeologists Just Found the Oldest 3D Map in the World
Experts just found a 3D map that was carved into quartz sandstone likely 13,000 years ago. Located within the famed Segognole ...
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Dolní Věstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world
A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...
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Archaeologist Discovers a Hoard of Paleolithic Artifacts From Ancient Lake, Most Notable Are 1,500-Yr-Old Hand Axes
Archaeologist Discovers a Hoard of Paleolithic Artifacts From Ancient Lake, Most Notable Are 1,500-Yr-Old Hand Axes In 2024, ...
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What Ideas From the Paleolithic Are Still With Us in the Modern World?
The idea of a life course of a year, with weather, people, and animals traveling along with it was at the heart of the Paleolithic thought matrix. Marshack, for example, studied the amount of ...
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Ice age Europeans as young as 10 years old rocked cheek piercings 30,000 years ago
A study of Paleolithic skeletons from Central Europe suggests people's teeth were worn down and crowded together because of ...
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Paleolithic ingenuity: 13,000-year-old 3D map discovered in France
Dr. Thiry's earlier research, following his first visit to the site in 2017, established that Paleolithic people had "worked" the sandstone in a way that mirrored the female form, and opened ...
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Paleolithic 3-D Map Identified in France
The modifications made to the sandstone by the Paleolithic people would have created flow paths for rainwater into the rock shelter, he explained. “This completely new discovery offers a better ...