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🧐 Ancient Beat #79: Dark earth, sunken temples, and a 476,000-year-old wooden structure
It turns out that ancient hominins were building structures before Homo sapiens were so much as a twinkle in their eyes. Evidence of a 476,000-year-old…
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #78: Cave art, magic, and big LiDAR discoveries
A major Paleolithic cave art site, which might be the most important such site ever found on the Eastern Iberian Coast, was discovered near Valencia…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #77: 1.4-million-year-old spheres, a newly discovered cursus, and a close call for humans
Tennis ball-sized spherical stones dating to millions of years ago have been confusing archaeologists for a while now. Were they simply the product of…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #76: Flower burials, shell dragons, and artifacts that were already relics a thousand years ago
A chest known as a “tepetlacalli” containing 15 anthropomorphic figurines, along with green stone beads, snails, shells, and marine corals, has been…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #75: Mysterious passages, painted gatherings, and archaic human love
A 3,800-year-old mudbrick structure is being excavated in the Bronze Age acropolis at Tel Shimron in Israel, and it’s pretty strange. There are no…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #74: Olmec ceremonial centers, fortified stilt villages, and daughter-languages of PIE
Europe’s oldest stilt community was discovered in Lake Ohrid, Albania. Dating to roughly 6000 BCE, it’s nearly 1,000 years older than any other known…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #73: Hexagonal "pyramids", Roman road networks, and a new hominin species
A jaw, skull, and leg bones were discovered in Hualongdong, China in 2019. Since then, experts have tried to match the remains to a specific lineage of…
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James Fleischmann
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