Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Why did some ancient Khmer and Mesoamerican cities collapse between 900-1500CE, while their rural surrounds continued to prosper? Intentional adaptation to climate changed
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists excavating in India have come across a 2000-year-old Mauryan-era brick platform that may provide scientists with valuable information about the lost Ashoka
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Sustainability is a 21st century buzzword, but a new interdisciplinary study shows that some communities have been conducting sustainable practices for at least
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have been excavating the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in modern-day Guatemala, since the 1950s—and thanks to those many decades
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – How should we relate to the traditional historiography on ancient Sicily? The prevailing view has been that the indigenous population had neither territory,
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists excavating in Egypt have unearthed several interesting artifacts that were used in religious rituals for goddess Hathor. The ancient tools were discovered
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Etruscan civilization, which flourished during the Iron Age in central Italy, has intrigued scholars for millennia. With remarkable metallurgical skills and a
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – An international group of scientists has studied a genome sequence of a unique individual known as the Segorbe giant and his DNA reveals
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Using oxygen stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel from animals butchered by humans at the site of Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, Max Planck
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Already in the Bronze Age, pastoralists covered long distances across the Eurasian steppes – presumably thanks to their consumption of milk. The Yamnaya,
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The answer to climate change—or at least part of it—is blowing in the wind. “Early action will reap dividends,” said Rebecca Barthelmie, professor
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have studied how ancient people responded to catastrophic natural events and discovered ancient Maya people used volcanic ash to build some of
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – In the Middle Bronze Age (about 3,600 years ago or roughly 1650 BCE), the city of Tall el-Hammam was ascendant. Located on high
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Ancient rulers had one thing in common with political leaders today – they were eager to brand themselves. Archaeologists have discovered Maya rulers
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Music is an intrinsic expression of cultural diversity and a fundamental element of identity, ritual symbolism, and daily social interaction. The study of
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Neanderthals, our closest relatives, became extinct between 40,000 to 35,000 years ago. Since the discovery of the first Neanderthal fossil 165 years ago,
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – The long-distance migrations of early Bronze Age pastoralists in the Eurasian steppe have captured widespread interest. But the factors behind their remarkable spread
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – The monumental reliefs at the Camel Site in northern Arabia are unique: three rock spurs are decorated with naturalistic, life-sized carvings of camels
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international group of scientists has identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – On the left side of the grave, the male skeleton lays with one arm outstretched, holding the abdomen of the female skeleton by
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Today, more than 10 percent of all global marriages occur among first or second cousins. While cousin-marriages are common practice in some societies,
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – During the middle of the sixth century CE a dramatic transformation began in how the people of western Europe buried their dead. The
