Tag: archaeology
Stone Tools Found Underwater Reveal Australia’s Lost Landscape
Stone tools found during underwater archaeology in Australia are revealing how Aboriginal communities used a landscape that now lies beneath the sea. Off the coast of Western Australia, archaeologists and Indigenous Rangers…
Ireland Ice Age Cave Art May Rewrite the Island’s First Human Story
Researchers with the Lost Land Bridge Project say they have identified prehistoric rock art in eight caves in south-west Ireland that may date to at least about 15,000 years ago — roughly…
Maya Medical Systems Used Living Organisms as Precision Surgical Tools
Maya medical systems deployed living organisms as precision surgical tools centuries before germ theory existed. Recent archaeological evidence shows these practitioners selected leeches, maggots, and even human hair not for symbolic value…
Ancient Rock Art in Texas-Mexico Borderlands Endured 4,000 Years
Hunter-gatherers in what is now southwestern Texas and northern Mexico created rock art for more than 4,000 years, maintaining consistent imagery and techniques that depicted their conception of the universe. The tradition,…
Ancient Peruvians Survived Climate Catastrophe Through Adaptation, Not War
Archaeologists working in Peru’s Supe Valley have uncovered compelling evidence of how the Americas’ oldest known civilization weathered a devastating climate crisis 4,000 years ago. The recent discovery of Peñico, a 3,800-year-old…
Peru’s Mysterious “Band of Holes” May Have Been Ancient Marketplace and Accounting System
A decades-old archaeological puzzle in Peru’s Pisco Valley may finally have an answer. More than 5,200 circular depressions carved into the hillsides of Monte Sierpe have baffled scientists since aerial photographs revealed…