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🧐 Ancient Beat #105: Megaliths, monuments, and lava tubes
Evidence of human activity has been discovered in the Umm Jirsan lava tube of Saudi Arabia, part of the Harrat Khaybar lava field. This tube, stretching…
Apr 20
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🧐 Ancient Beat: If you didn't receive this week's issue, here it is...
Some of you haven't received my last two Beats — technical issues. Here are the links.
Apr 13
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #104: New henges, weird burials, and hallucinogenic song depictions
In the quest for Saint Guthlac's hermitage, a remarkable prehistoric henge was uncovered in Crowland, England. The circular earthwork is almost 250 feet…
Apr 12
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #103: Crater villages, wood crafting, and pushing (back) the plow
In the Swiss Alps, researchers have discovered 7,000-year-old soil layers with furrows and animal tracks, providing evidence of prehistoric plowing…
Apr 6
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #103: Crater villages, wood crafting, and pushing (back) the plow
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March 2024
🧐 Ancient Beat #102: The Amazons, strategic quarrying, and the origin of language
New research suggests that early humans developed rudimentary language around 1.6 million years ago in Africa. For reference, it was previously believed…
Mar 30
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🧐 Ancient Beat #102: The Amazons, strategic quarrying, and the origin of language
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🧐 Ancient Beat #101: Human interaction with dino fossils, long-distance Rapa Nui connections, and a heated Gunung Padang retraction
Yep, that title was too long.
Mar 23
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #101: Human interaction with dino fossils, long-distance Rapa Nui connections, and a heated Gunung Padang retraction
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🧐 Ancient Beat #100: Body jewelry, half a giant (statue), and pushing back European occupation
Stone tools were unearthed from a quarry in Korolevo, Ukraine in the 1970s, and they’ve now been dated to over 1 million years ago — possibly 1.4…
Mar 17
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🧐 Ancient Beat #99: Andean hillforts, advanced material sourcing, and a lost city of gold
Utilizing satellite imagery, researchers have identified over 1,000 hillforts, known as pukaras, in the Andean highlands, dating from the Late…
Mar 2
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #99: Andean hillforts, advanced material sourcing, and a lost city of gold
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February 2024
🧐 Ancient Beat #98: Lipstick, caravanserais, and complex Neanderthal adhesives
According to a new study, Neanderthals used multi-component adhesives to create stone tools, demonstrating advanced cognitive abilities similar to…
Feb 24
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🧐 Ancient Beat #98: Lipstick, caravanserais, and complex Neanderthal adhesives
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🧐 Ancient Beat #97: Submerged megastructures, old(est) beads, and the age of Rongorongo script
A groundbreaking discovery in the Baltic Sea revealed a Stone Age megastructure. It has been identified as a hunting wall made of 1,670 stones. The…
Feb 17
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #97: Submerged megastructures, old(est) beads, and the age of Rongorongo script
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🧐 Ancient Beat #96: Leisure, hallucinogenics, and not-so-abrupt tool revolutions
A new study challenged the notion of a single "revolution" in stone tool technology during Homo sapiens' Eurasian dispersal around 50,000 to 40,000…
Feb 9
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #96: Leisure, hallucinogenics, and not-so-abrupt tool revolutions
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🧐 Ancient Beat #95: The Gravettian culture(s), unique dolmens, and Alexander the Great's fam
It was previously thought that folks living in Europe from 34,000 to 24,000 were all part of the so-called Gravettian culture. This was based on…
Feb 3
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #95: The Gravettian culture(s), unique dolmens, and Alexander the Great's fam
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