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🧐 Ancient Beat #63: Neanderthal chemists, the oldest Homo sapiens footprint, and pushing back the dawn of Greek archaeology
As far back as 200,000 years ago, Neanderthals were making birch tar, a type of adhesive made from birch bark. Until now, the jury was out on how…
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #62: A 30,000-year layover, pouring one out, and a rock-carved face
Ancient humans had a 30,000-year layover in Arabia as they left Africa?
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #61: Biome diversity, a 45-foot petroglyph, and the world's oldest (precise) blueprints
Two engravings previously discovered in Saudi Arabia and Jordan are now thought to be blueprints of ancient desert kites, according to a recent study…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #60: Neanderthal hunters (vs sapiens), underwater roads, and early migrations to the Americas from China
After 200 years of investigation, Ukraine’s Verteba Cave is still bearing fruit! Researchers believe that the primary function of the cave was as a…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #59: Bent swords, megalithic hypogea, and wave after wave of Homo sapiens migrations
According to a study of lithic artifacts at multiple sites, there were three waves of Homo sapiens migrations into Europe starting around 54,000 years…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #58: Rethinking hunting and gathering, the Maya calendar, and the end of the Indus Valley civilization
An 819-day cycle that features in Maya calendars has been a question mark for researchers ever since it was first deciphered in the 1940s, as the…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #57: Savvy princesses, bubbling wine fountains, and Denisovan faces
You may or may not know of the Xiongnu culture that ruled modern-day Mongolia between 200 BCE and 100 CE — they’re the nomads whose relentless attacks…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #56: Maya scoreboards, Solutrean glue, and the connection between religion and population density
A 1,200-year-old carved stone was discovered in an architectonic compound called Casa Colorada at the site of Chichen Itza in Mexico. It is circular and…
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James Fleischmann
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