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The first known dental filling made with gemstones in a molar by the Maya is discovered

External view of the molar. Occlusal surface with the jadeite stone view and buccal aspect view. Credit: E. Mata-Castillo et al. 2026 This is the first documented case of a gemstone inserted into a ...
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Large Megalithic Tombs in Neolithic Scotland Were Built to Safeguard the Paternal Line for Centuries

A team of archaeologists has succeeded in establishing the genetic relationships among individuals buried in chambered tombs from the Neolithic period in northern Scotland, specifically in Caithness ...
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Neanderthal children hunted pond turtles in Central Europe 125,000 years ago, but not to eat them

This is what it might have looked like around 125,000 years ago: a European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) next to the foot of a European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus). Credit: ...
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Early Humans Already Had Fixed Quarries in South Africa 220,000 Years Ago, Returning to Them for Generations to Obtain Stone for Their Tools

The site Jojosi 5 with clearly visible accumulations of stone artifacts – Stone Age knapping workshops – which were uncovered during excavations. Credit: University of Tübingen / Manuel Will An ...
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An expedition discovers an unknown and unmapped island in Antarctica that forces the updating of international navigation charts

The presence of a rocky formation previously unknown to nautical cartography has been confirmed by the scientific team aboard the icebreaker Polarstern, from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), in ...
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A 5,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Bread Found in Türkiye Reveals an Unusual Ritual Use

A team of archaeologists has unearthed at the site of Küllüoba, in Anatolia, a charred bread dating between 3200 and 3000 BC. The discovery reveals that our ancestors were already mixing cereals and ...
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A Ceremonial Bronze Age Sanctuary Covered by a Strange L-Shaped Wall That Defended Nothing Discovered in Bosnia

For decades, the hill of Begića Glavica remained silent. Neither archaeologists nor Bosnian heritage maps registered it as a ...
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The German Fossil That Baffled Scientists for Decades Was Not a Neanderthal–Modern Human Hybrid

For almost half a century, a fragment of a human skull found on the banks of the Elbe River, near the German town of ...
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In an Anglo-Saxon Tomb from 1,400 Years Ago, an Older Sister “Looks After” Her Younger Brother, Both Dead from a Contagious Disease

The advancement of ancient genetics has solved an archaeological mystery of decades: the double burial discovered in ...
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Iron Age Archaeology

In Schaalby, a small locality in northern Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, a team of archaeologists and volunteers has brought to light a find of exceptional rarity for the region: a deposit composed of ...
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More than 1,300 posts at 5 meters deep reveal that a storm and floods destroyed a Neolithic village on the shores of Lake Biel 5,860 years ago

Excavations for the construction of the new campus of the University of Applied Sciences of Bern in the town of Biel have ...
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Guillermo Carvajal

For decades, geochemists have used the different varieties of lead as a kind of infallible geological clock to date the formation of rocks and understand the processes of planetary accretion that ...