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  • Archaeologists Discover 8600-year-old Bread at Çatalhöyük May be the Oldest Bread in the World

    03/09/2024 4:41:59 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 55 replies
    Arkeonews ^ | March 5, 2024 | Leman Altuntaş
    Çatalhöyük is noteworthy because it is one of the first human proto-cities to have been built. Full of densely packed mud brick houses covered in paintings and symbolic decorations, its population hovered around 8,000. That made it one of the biggest settlements of its era, somewhere between an outsized village and a tiny city. People, mud-brick homes through ceiling doors, and they navigated sidewalks that wound around the city’s rooftops.Archaeologists have discovered an oven structure in the area called "Mekan 66”. Around the largely destroyed oven, wheat, barley, pea seeds, and a handful find that could be food were found.Analyses...
  • Ancient DNA Reveals a Tragic Genocide Hidden in Humanity's Past

    02/17/2024 11:28:29 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 52 replies
    Science Alert ^ | February 17, 2024 | Clare Watson
    The rise of farming in late Stone Age Europe was no smooth transition from hunter-gatherer lifestyles but a bloody takeover that saw nomadic populations wiped out by farmer-settlers in a few generations, a new study has found.In fact, twice in just a thousand years, the population of southern Scandinavia was entirely replaced by newcomers to the area, whose remains bear next to no trace of their predecessors in DNA profiles, analyzed by an international team of researchers."This transition has previously been presented as peaceful," explains study author and palaeoecologist Anne Birgitte Nielsen of Lund University...Using a technique called shotgun sequencing,...
  • Rewriting History: Groundbreaking New Research Reveals That Early Human Diets Were Primarily Plant-Based

    02/17/2024 4:53:28 PM PST · by Red Badger · 68 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | FEBRUARY 17, 2024 | By UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
    Recent research challenges the traditional view of early human diets in the Andes, suggesting a shift from “hunter-gatherers” to “gatherer-hunters.” The study, analyzing remains from the Wilamaya Patjxa and Soro Mik’aya Patjxa sites in Peru, reveals an 80 percent plant-based and 20 percent meat diet among early Andeans. This finding, based on isotope chemistry and statistical modeling, contradicts previous beliefs and influences current perceptions of diets such as the Paleodiet. It also indicates a need to reassess archaeological frameworks globally. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The commonly used term “hunter-gatherers” for describing early humans should be revised to “gatherer-hunters” in the context of the...
  • Study of ancient adornments suggests nine distinct cultures lived in Europe during the Paleolithic

    02/11/2024 9:56:18 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 25 replies
    Phys dot org ^ | January 30, 2024 | Bob Yirka
    A team of anthropologists at Université Bordeaux has found evidence of nine distinct cultures living in what is now Europe during the Gravettian period. In their study, reported in the journal Nature Human Behavior, the group analyzed personal adornments worn by people living in the region between 24,000 and 34,000 years ago...Prior research has shown that humans have been adorning themselves for thousands of years. In this new effort, the researchers looked at the types of adornments that were worn by people living in Europe during the Gravettian period—a time during the Paleolithic when a culture known as the Gravettian...
  • Indoctrination or Ignorance? 28-Year-Old Woman Learns You Can Eat Fruit From a Tree

    02/10/2024 5:59:35 PM PST · by grundle · 51 replies
    Rumble ^ | February 10, 2024
    Indoctrination or Ignorance? 28-Year-Old Woman Learns You Can Eat Fruit From a Tree
  • Iceman Reborn: A 5,000-Year-Old Murder Mystery

    02/04/2024 4:53:10 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 27 replies
    YouTube ^ | posted January 24, 2024, aired February 17, 2016 | NOVA | PBS Official
    Watch as Otzi, a 5000-year-old mummy, is brought to life and preserved with 3D modeling. (Aired February 17, 2016)He was stalked, attacked and left to die alone. Murdered more than 5,000 years ago, Otzi the Iceman is Europe's oldest known natural mummy. Miraculously preserved in glacial ice, his remarkably intact remains continue to provide scientists, historians, and archeologists with groundbreaking discoveries about a crucial time in human history. But in order to protect him from contamination, this extraordinary body has been locked away, out of reach, in a frozen crypt—until now. NOVA joins renowned artist and paleo-sculptor Gary Staab as...
  • 10,000-year-old burials from unknown hunter-gatherer group discovered in Brazil

    02/02/2024 1:55:47 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 10 replies
    Live Science ^ | January 19, 2024 | Lobato Felizola
    ...Archaeologists already knew that the São Luís area, also called Upaon-Açu, meaning "big island" in the Tupí-Guaraní Indigenous languages, held traces of prehistoric human activity. For instance, a prehistoric jawbone was discovered at Farm Rosane in the 1970s and other artifacts found in São Luís have dated to 6,000 years ago, Wellington Lage, the lead archaeologist of the recent excavations, told Live Science. The remains were attributed to the Sambaquian peoples. This group relied on marine resources and built shell mounds with leftover food refuse that reached up to 100 feet (30 meters) high.The latest excavation, which began in June...
  • Hunter-gatherers were mostly gatherers, says archaeologist

    02/02/2024 2:01:01 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 76 replies
    Guardian (UK) ^ | January 24, 2024 | Hannah Devlin
    Early human hunter-gatherers ate mostly plants and vegetables, according to archeological findings that undermine the commonly held view that our ancestors lived on a high protein, meat-heavy diet.The evidence, from the remains of 24 individuals from two burial sites in the Peruvian Andes dating to between 9,000 and 6,500 years ago, suggests that wild potatoes and other root vegetables may have been a dominant source of nutrition before the shift to an agricultural lifestyle...Some have previously suggested that the shift to agricultural economies was driven by over-hunting, but the latest findings raise the possibility of a more gradual transition from...
  • 'Europe's biggest mushroom' found (weird FR story of the day...)

    09/28/2004 4:53:07 AM PDT · by alnitak · 12 replies · 1,024+ views
    The BBC ^ | Sunday, 26 September, 2004, 23:40 GMT 00:40 UK | Anonymous BBC story monkey
    Swiss scientists have found what they say may be Europe's biggest mushroom - covering an area about the size of 35 football pitches. The fungus was discovered in a national park near the eastern town of Ofenpass, said the Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Countryside Research (WSL). Spanning 35 hectares (86 acres), the mostly underground fungus is believed to be 1,000 years old, the WSL added. The Honey Mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae) is edible, but it can kill trees. "The majority of the fungus is an underground network that looks a bit like shoelaces," WSL's spokeswoman Muriel Bendel said. "The...
  • Roman-era wine shop, possibly destroyed in an earthquake, discovered in Greece

    01/31/2024 7:30:41 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 9 replies
    Live Science ^ | January 24, 2024 | Owen Jarus
    Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a 1,600-year-old wine shop that was destroyed and abandoned after a "sudden event," possibly an earthquake or building collapse, left broken vessels and 60 coins scattered on the floor, according to new research.The shop operated at a time when the Roman Empire controlled the region. It was found in the ancient city of Sikyon (also spelled Sicyon), which is located on the northern coast of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. Within the wine shop, archaeologists found the scattered coins, as well as the remains of marble tabletops and vessels made of bronze, glass and ceramic.The...
  • Spicy wine: New study reveals ancient Romans may have had peculiar tastes

    01/31/2024 7:25:01 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 2 replies
    Phys dot org ^ | January 24, 2024 | Brendan Rascius, The Charlotte Observer
    It's no secret that the ancient Romans were lovers of wine. So gripped by the grape were they, that they even worshiped a god—Bacchus—devoted to wine and merriment.But, little is known about what their wine actually tasted like. Was it bitter or sweet? Fruity or earthy? According to a pioneering new study, it was rather spicy and smelled like toast...By comparing these vessels, which have long been overlooked, to similar containers used in modern wine-making, researchers were able to demystify the ancient flavors and the processes that created them.The findings "change much of our current understanding of Roman winemaking," researchers,...
  • Comet Airburst Initiated Transition to Agriculture 12,800 Years Ago, Scientists Say

    01/01/2024 1:20:37 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 41 replies
    Science News ^ | October 16, 2023 | News Staff
    The settlement occupants left an abundant and continuous record of seeds, legumes and other foods...By studying these archaeological layers, Professor Kennett and colleagues were able to discern the types of plants that were being collected in the warmer, humid days before the climate changed and in the cooler, drier days after the onset of what we know now as the Younger Dryas cool period.Before the impact, the inhabitants' prehistoric diet involved wild legumes and wild-type grains, and small but significant amounts of wild fruits and berries.In the layers corresponding to the time after cooling, fruits and berries disappeared and their...
  • Wait ... The gifts of "12 Days of Christmas" are birds? They're ALL birds and they were supposed to be EATEN?

    12/20/2023 8:45:23 AM PST · by Red Badger · 36 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | Dec 18, 2023 | Staff
    I, Harambe, saw this viral video the other day about the "12 Days of Christmas" gifts ALL being birds and I decided I had to do a little digging because the Not the Bee folks need to know about this. It's always been a joke about the song that after 4 days of birds, it must have been a relief to get the five golden rings. Except, according to some theories, EVERY gift in the 12 days of Christmas is a different bird. The song was originally written in a children's book called Mirth Without Mischief way back in the...
  • The Family Recipes That Live On in Cemeteries

    11/01/2023 6:49:34 AM PDT · by texas booster · 19 replies
    Gastro Obscura ^ | Oct 31 2023 | Sam O'Brien
    On a clear day at Nome City Cemetery (AK), you can watch planes take off over the Bering Sea. Within the field of white graves, you might also see a small black obelisk that shines brilliantly when it catches the sun. Getting closer, you’ll note an unmistakable symbol engraved near its base. It’s not a cross, nor a Star of David, but a sacred container of sorts in many American households: a tub of Cool Whip.The grave belongs to Bonnie Johnson, a mother, former flight attendant, and creator of a cookie recipe whose batches always arrived at birthdays, holidays, and...
  • Neanderthal cuisine: Excavations reveal Neanderthals were as intelligent as Homo sapiens

    10/22/2023 10:17:10 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 35 replies
    Phys dot org ^ | October 13, 2023 | University of Trento
    The oldest layers of the Gruta de Oliveira, which includes a number of passages, date back to about 120,000 years ago, the most recent to about 40,000: It is believed that Neanderthals inhabited this place between 100,000 and 70,000 years ago...In this case however, what caught the attention of archaeologists were the traces of hearths intentionally built and used in the cave. The archaeologists found about a dozen hearths at various stratigraphic levels in an excavation area of about 30 square meters and six meters deep. The unmistakable basin-like, circular structures were filled with remains.Findings from inside and near the...
  • Cannibalistic Europeans Likely Ate Their Dead at Funerals 15,000 Years Ago Instead of Burying Them, Study Says

    10/06/2023 3:53:21 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 122 replies
    Business Insider ^ | Oct 5, 2023 | Sebastian Cahill and Grace Eliza Goodwin
    -Europeans probably ate their dead loved ones instead of burying them 15,000 years ago. -According to a new study, the consumption of dead people was not essential, but a ritual. -Researchers also said people used the remaining bones as cups and chewed on them. Cannibalistic Europeans likely feasted on their deceased loved ones at funerals instead of burying them, according to a new study. Scientists now believe that cannibalism was widespread among Magdalenian Upper Palaeolithic people, who lived across Europe between 11,000 and 17,000 years ago, according to the study published in Quaternary Science Reviews. The study's researchers analyzed funerary...
  • A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant

    10/06/2023 4:16:13 AM PDT · by FarCenter · 27 replies
    Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth's atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in the prehistoric settlement of Abu Hureyra to adopt agricultural practices to boost their chances for survival. That's the assertion made by an international group of scientists in one of four related research papers, all appearing in the journal Science Open: Airbursts and Cratering Impacts. The papers are the latest results in the investigation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, the idea that an anomalous cooling of the Earth almost 13 millennia ago...
  • Ancient Man Who Died Of Constipation Had Been Eating Grasshoppers For Months

    09/27/2023 7:53:17 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 65 replies
    IFLScience (change your ****in' name!) ^ | September 26, 2023 | James Felton
    The Skiles mummy was found in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of South Texas. Up to 150 mummified bodies have been found in the area, but one adult male from around 1,200 years ago attracted particular attention for study due to how well-preserved his naturally mummified remains were. As well as having a full head of hair – rarely found in the other mummified remains – he had "a very large desiccated fecal mass, which encompasses the majority of what would have been the gastrointestinal tract", according to the authors of one study.Given the size of the backup, the fecal matter...
  • Researchers Discover That Bees Can Make Decisions Better and Faster Than We Do

    09/07/2023 12:23:28 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 34 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | SEPTEMBER 4, 2023 | By MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
    A new study reveals how we could design robots to think like bees. Honey bees excel in weighing effort against reward and risk, quickly determining which flowers can provide sustenance for their colony. A study recently published in the journal eLife illustrates how eons of evolution have fine-tuned honey bees to make swift judgments while minimizing danger. This research sheds light on the workings of insect minds, the evolution of human cognition, and offers insights for improved robot design. The paper presents a model of decision-making in bees and outlines the paths in their brains that enable fast decision-making. The...
  • Ancient humans in Israel once ate elephants. When they disappeared, weapons improved-A new paper from researchers at Tel Aviv University proposes a link between the disappearance of large prey and advancements in hunting and technology

    09/07/2023 9:17:12 AM PDT · by SJackson · 29 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 9-7-23 | MELANIE LIDMAN
    An illustration of early humans hunting an elephant using spears. (courtesy Tel Aviv University) When elephants started disappearing from the Middle East some 400,000 years ago, it was a major crisis, and not just for the ancient elephants. Early humans across the region, including in what is now Israel, depended on elephants for their diet. Eventually, humans adapted, learning how to hunt smaller prey such as bison, deer and gazelles, until those, too, disappeared from the landscape or their numbers were too small to hunt. This forced humans to adapt to even smaller prey such as rabbits and birds, and,...