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Stone Age European hunter-gatherers reached North Africa by boat, ancient DNA reveals

New genetic studies offer the very first clear evidence that European hunter-gatherers crossed the Mediterranean and came into contact with North African populations as early as 8,500 years ago. The discoveries challenge long-held beliefs about how agriculture and cultural influences reached the region...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/03/sto

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Stone Age European hunter-gatherers reached North Africa by boat, ancient DNA reveals New genetic studies offer the very first clear evidence that European hunter-gatherers crossed the Mediterranean and came into contact with North African populations as early as 8,500 years ago. The discoveries challenge long-held beliefs about how agriculture and cultural influences reached the region while attesting to the resilience of local populations in the eastern Maghreb. In new research published in the journal Nature, co-led by Ron Pinhasi of the University of Vienna, David Reich and Mark Lipson of Harvard Medical School, Alfredo Coppa of Sapienza University of Rome, and Giulio Lucarini of the National Research Council of Italy, researchers performed a genome-wide analysis of nine individuals from Algeria and Tunisia from the Later Stone Age until the Neolithic. The study brings to light how early human populations in North Africa interacted with their European counterparts and transitioned from hunting and gathering to food production...
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Carl

Flash: Scaling the Brine Rock

Salt crunched beneath Morwyn's fingers as she grasped the top of the rocky tower. Brackish mist rose from the ever-pounding waves upon the sea stack, wetting her lips yet parching them, obscuring the waters beneath so this spire and the others nearby breached the fog like rotten teeth.

The crown was a haphazard tangle of w

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Carl Ellis - Father, Writer, Engineer · Flash: Scaling the Brine RockSalt crunched beneath Morwyn’s fingers as she grasped the top of the rocky tower. Brackish mist rose from the ever-pounding waves upon the sea stack, wetting her lips yet parching them, obscu…
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#Woodhenge - #Stonehenge - 🤔 We are connected across ages.

☀️ "The newly discovered Danish woodhenge appeared to have a similar axis as England’s Stonehenge and Woodhenge, she said. “It shows us that they are sharing the same worldviews on large-scale areas on how to be farmers, how society connects with the supernatural."

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The Guardian · Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark may have links to UKBy Miranda Bryant
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Neolithic ‘sun stones’ sacrificed in Denmark to revive the sun after volcanic eruption

Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic communities on the Danish island of Bornholm ritually buried hundreds of engraved stones, so-called “sun stones,” in a remarkable act to counter drastic climate changes caused by a massive volcanic eruption...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/01/neo

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Neolithic ‘sun stones’ sacrificed in Denmark to revive the sun after volcanic eruption Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic communities on the Danish island of Bornholm ritually buried hundreds of engraved stones, so-called “sun stones,” in a remarkable act to counter drastic climate changes caused by a massive volcanic eruption. The eruption was identified in ice cores by the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen as having caused a period of cold and darkness and severely affecting early agricultural societies. The volcanic event, which occurred around 2900 BCE, spewed large amounts of sulfur into the atmosphere, forming a haze that blocked sunlight. This, in turn, caused temperatures to fall and significantly reduced sunlight—a challenge that led to crop failure and proved to be an existential threat, particularly to Neolithic farmers...
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You know, that wolf, was a big one, his shoulders reached as high as mine, a giant muzzle with fangs as sharp as flintstone, as long as my ell, and he growled and barked, ran towards me and jumped and I just tried to raise my spear, but the animal jumped against it, against me and threw me into the pit, and right then, I noticed, that the pit was filled with the remnants of the other hunters who had gone after the beast, but were killed, and now it seemed to be my time of dying, admidst all these dead bodies and bones and guts and swarms of carrion flies all around, and I shouted to Great Mormor to help me – and indeed, she helped me. The wolf standing above me, ready to tear my chest apart, but these flies were distracting him, flying around his head, that he couldn’t see me properly. In that moment, I found a flint knife beside me, I had to pry it from a dead man’s hand, only to realize it was severed with no arm attached, the beast had bitten it off, but then, I took the knife and drove it into the wolf’s throat and his blood poured down on me and the animal collapsed over me. The other wolves sought revenge, but they could not see me for their leader was lying upon me, nor could they smell me for I was covered with the wolf’s blood - and this had saved my life.

Granddaddy – last time you told us the story with a she-wolf. Are you sure ...

Ah, what do you know, young one, you haven’t been there in that pit, lying in that blood, in that stinking heap of flesh… By the way, did I already tell you about my encounter with the sabertooth?

Yes!

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Stone Age family killed in house fire 6,000 years ago, study reveals

A recent interdisciplinary study of ancient human remains from Kosenivka, Ukraine, has revealed new insights into the lives and deaths of individuals from the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, a Neolithic society that flourished in Eastern Europe between 5500 and 2750 BCE...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2024/12/sto

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Stone Age family killed in house fire 6,000 years ago, study reveals A recent interdisciplinary study of ancient human remains from Kosenivka, Ukraine, has revealed new insights into the lives and deaths of individuals from the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, a Neolithic society that flourished in Eastern Europe between 5500 and 2750 BCE. Archaeologists first uncovered the site in 2004, located about 115 miles south of Kyiv. Within a burned house, researchers discovered 50 bone fragments belonging to seven individuals, including two children, one adolescent, and four adults. Four of the individuals were heavily burned, while three were unburned and found outside the house. Radiocarbon dating revealed that six of the individuals likely perished between 3690 and 3620 BCE, while one person’s remains dated roughly 130 years later, suggesting a complex series of events.
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Mammoths were a key food source for ancient Americans, Clovis-era baby bones reveal

Researchers have uncovered the first direct evidence that the Clovis people, a prehistoric group who lived in North America around 13,000 years ago, primarily relied on mammoths and other large animals as their main food source...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2024/12/mam

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Mammoths were a key food source for ancient Americans, Clovis-era baby bones reveal Researchers have uncovered the first direct evidence that the Clovis people, a prehistoric group who lived in North America around 13,000 years ago, primarily relied on mammoths and other large animals as their main food source. The findings are based on chemical analyses of the remains of Anzick-1, an 18-month-old child discovered at a Clovis burial site in Montana. Since the child was still nursing, researchers examined the isotopic fingerprint in his bones to infer his mother’s diet...
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