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Topics in Archaeology, Anthropology and History

Archaeology News

archaeology.org: Archaeological Headlines
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c1038wnxyy0t/archaeology
Fox-News: https://www.foxnews.com/category/science/archaeology.html
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Live Science: https://www.livescience.com/topics/archaeology
Phys.org: https://phys.org/search/?search=archaeology
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Loss of Arctic archeological sites a ‘catastrophe’: experts

Archeologists are discovering that much of that evidence has been destroyed in less than a generation, owing to the accelerating effects of climate change. Unless a concerted effort is made to rescue what is left, they say, a vast treasury of knowledge about the humanity’s presence at the world’s northern extremes will be wiped from existence.
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Famous Ancient Historians

484 BC - Herodotus

460 BC - Thucydides

430 BC - Xenophon

330 BC - Berossus, the last Babylonian Priest

   37 AD - Josephus

   56 AD - Tacitus

   69 AD - Suetonius

260 AD - Eusebius

500 AD - Procopius

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Courses on Khan Academy
Introduction to the Ancient Near East


Sumerian Culture

  Sumerian Dictionary Are you interested in archaeology and anthropology? Start by learning about underground shelters built around 7000 BC: the Anatolian Cappadocia. These complex underground cities stretched 8 levels underground, containing temples, live animals and interconnecting tunnels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxO-rty0biU
     
Reading Material
  Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation
L W King
    Uruk, The First City
by Mario Liverani




Space Archaeologists - New Technologies

 

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Lego Antikythera Mechanism





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Development of Writing Systems

 



 

The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online

 

Prehistoric Europe

 

Famous Viking Warrior Was a Woman, DNA Reveals

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Interesting Articles: Hand-picked by Our Volunteers

Hatshepsut: Powerful Female Pharaoh    
     

 


https://www.livescience.com/62409-humans-tracked-giant-ground-sloths.html


https://www.livescience.com/27955-knossos-palace-of-the-minoans.html


https://discovermagazine.com/2018/janfeb/37-unraveling-mummies-genetic-secrets


https://www.archaeology.org/issues/263-1707/from-the-trenches/5638-trenches-france-medieval-music-plaque


https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/archaeology/crystal-skulls/


https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/china-new-species-extinction-gibbons-apes-paleontology-science/


https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/prehistoric-humans-may-have-practiced-brain-surgery-cows

 

Interactive Map of the Ancient City of Troy:
Each color represents a different time period and highlights certain archaeological features of each era. Read more about how the settlement and its inhabitants changed over time. Click a settlement layer to select it.

 

Anthropology - Human Ancestry

Remains of hybrid human girl with Neanderthal mother discovered in Siberian cave

Neanderthal Bone Fragment Identified in Denisova Cave

Denisova Cave Yields a 50,000-Year-Old Needle

 

Caveman Genetics: Early Humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans.

Neanderthal Genome Decoded

 

Unknown hominid species, most likely related to Neanderthals:
"What species name is it?" Quam asks. "It is broadly similar to other ones from the Middle Pleistocene in Europe, but shows a unique combination of features, and these are all broadly ancestral to the later Neanderthals."

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The world’s oldest mummies aren’t found in Egypt, but in the sands of Chile’s Atacama Desert. The oldest dates to an astonishing 5000 B.C., and even the youngest are nearly 5,000 years old. But since the moment they were excavated, they’ve been undergoing changes that even millennia in the ground didn’t bring about.

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What Would a human Neanderthal hybrid look like (Dr Kerryn Warren)

  The Rate of DNA Disintegration

"By comparing the specimens' ages and degrees of DNA degradation, the researchers calculated that DNA has a half-life of 521 years. That means that after 521 years, half of the bonds between nucleotides in the backbone of a sample would have broken; after another 521 years half of the remaining bonds would have gone; and so on.

The team predicts that even in a bone at an ideal preservation temperature of −5 ºC, effectively every bond would be destroyed after a maximum of 6.8 million years."

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“Other factors that impact on DNA preservation are clearly at work,” says Bunce. “Storage following excavation, soil chemistry and even the time of year when the animal died are all likely contributing factors that will need looking into.”
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