Sitemap - 2023 - Ancient Beat

🧐 Ancient Beat #90: Petroglyphs, geoglyphs, and Scythian quivers made of human leather

🧐 Ancient Beat #89: Acoustic resonance, mass weapon production, and the shaman of Bad Dürrenberg

🧐 Ancient Beat #88: Winged phalluses, ancient Jalula, and the Book of Deer

🧐 Ancient Beat #87: Human parenting, 100,000 coins, and a 100-mile network of sites

🧐 Ancient Beat #86: A 25,000-year-old "pyramid", early spear throwers, and the discovery of ~50,000 coins

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🧐 Ancient Beat #85: Shark-tooth knives, the formation of the Sphinx, and pushing back the start of large-scale warfare

🧐 Ancient Beat #84: The mystery of Punt, 396 new Roman forts, and post-supervolcano Europeans

🧐 Ancient Beat #83: 250,000-year-old meet-cutes, stone treasure maps, and highlander Homo erectus

🧐 Ancient Beat #82: Cave-lion hunters, glass windows, and ancient homicides

🧐 Ancient Beat #81: 10,000 hidden structures, new statues at Göbekli Tepe, and the (contested) peopling of the Americas

🧐 Ancient Beat #80: New languages, strange fowling practices, and 60-seater latrines

🧐 Ancient Beat #79: Dark earth, sunken temples, and a 476,000-year-old wooden structure

🧐 Ancient Beat #78: Cave art, magic, and big LiDAR discoveries

🧐 Ancient Beat #77: 1.4-million-year-old spheres, a newly discovered cursus, and a close call for humans

🧐 Ancient Beat #76: Flower burials, shell dragons, and artifacts that were already relics a thousand years ago

🧐 Ancient Beat #75: Mysterious passages, painted gatherings, and archaic human love

🧐 Ancient Beat #74: Olmec ceremonial centers, fortified stilt villages, and daughter-languages of PIE

🧐 Ancient Beat #73: Hexagonal "pyramids", Roman road networks, and a new hominin species

🧐 Ancient Beat #72: Meteoric iron weapons, Indo-European origins, and ancient coal exploitation

🧐 Ancient Beat #71: Celtic glass, tiny stamps, and female war leaders

🧐 Ancient Beat #70: Advanced climbers, early forest management, and a 300,000-year-old stick

🧐 Ancient Beat #69: Giant ground sloth pendants, decoding the unknown Kushan script, and pushing back the peopling of the Americas (again)

🧐 Ancient Beat #68: Hidden dolmens, "giant" prehistoric axes, and pushing back the date of that delicious baked-bread smell

🧐 Ancient Beat #67: Female hunters, newly discovered rondels, and maybe some cannibalism

🧐 Ancient Beat #66: "Stonehenge of the Netherlands", the oldest Neanderthal engravings, and a newly discovered Maya city

🧐 Ancient Beat #65: Screeching bird flutes, ancient hydraulic engineering, and redating the "Out of Africa" theory

🧐 Ancient Beat #64: New Nazca geoglyphs, 250 newly discovered carvings, and the oldest burials in the world (Homo naledi!)

🧐 Ancient Beat #63: Neanderthal chemists, the oldest Homo sapiens footprint, and pushing back the dawn of Greek archaeology

🧐 Ancient Beat #62: A 30,000-year layover, pouring one out, and a rock-carved face

🧐 Ancient Beat #61: Biome diversity, a 45-foot petroglyph, and the world's oldest (precise) blueprints

🧐 Ancient Beat #60: Neanderthal hunters (vs sapiens), underwater roads, and early migrations to the Americas from China

🧐 Ancient Beat #59: Bent swords, megalithic hypogea, and wave after wave of Homo sapiens migrations

🧐 Ancient Beat #58: Rethinking hunting and gathering, the Maya calendar, and the end of the Indus Valley civilization

🧐 Ancient Beat #57: Savvy princesses, bubbling wine fountains, and Denisovan faces

🧐 Ancient Beat #56: Maya scoreboards, Solutrean glue, and the connection between religion and population density

🧐 Ancient Beat #55: Hallucinogens, hunter-gatherer economies, and a currency that became art

🧐 Ancient Beat #54: Stone ships, shark fishing, and the benefits of hunter-gatherer admixture

🧐 Ancient Beat #53: The Babylonian zodiac, two-faced murals, and unicorns (yes, unicorns)

🧐 Ancient Beat #52: Unusual burials, official state pottery, and the purpose of mustatils

🧐 Ancient Beat #51: Early horseback riding, Wari pigment propaganda, and the longevity of cities

🧐 Ancient Beat #50: A new corridor in the Great Pyramid, a new Moai on Rapa Nui, and a shift in the prehistoric narrative

🧐 Ancient Beat #49: The domestic lives of monument builders, traveling bows and arrows, and um... suggestive Roman artifacts

🧐 Ancient Beat #48: Medicine horns, legionary paychecks, and Oldowan-tool-wielding Paranthropuses

🧐 Ancient Beat #47: The Great Revolt, the collapse of the Hittites, and (early) migration to the Americas

🧐 Ancient Beat #46: Gregarious Neanderthals, a cave of skulls, and globalization via embalming practices

🧐 Ancient Beat #45: Enormous swords, obsidian axes, and the connection between agriculture and warfare

🧐 Ancient Beat #44: A new silk road, kissing cousins, and the oldest rune stone

🧐 Ancient Beat #43: Dark Earth, self-healing concrete, and Denisovan scent perception

🧐 Ancient Beat #42: Ice age writing systems, Viking captives, and a new Scythian-style culture