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"Annemieke Milks, Katerina Harvati, and colleagues systematically investigated the morphology of 144 wood remains excavated at Marathousa 1 in the Megalopolis Basin in Greece and identified two wooden artifacts dated to around 430,000 years ago." popular-archaeology.com/article/earl...
Popular Archeology - Early use of wooden tools by hominins
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"This area yielded not only over 70,000 stone artifacts, but also revealed multiple traces of heat-treated stone materials at their bases." www.globaltimes.cn/page/202602/...
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"New discoveries from the Pleistocene-age Gantangqing site in southwestern China reveal a diverse collection of wooden tools dated from ~361,000 to 250,000 years ago, marking the earliest known evidence of complex wooden tool technology in East Asia." popular-archaeology.com/article/gant...
Popular Archeology - Gantangqing site in southwest China yields 300,000-year-old wooden tools
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"Their results indicate that most of Shimao's inhabitants descended from local people who had lived in the region about 1,000 years earlier." www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Ancient DNA reveals a chilling secret at China’s 4,000-year-old Shimao city
Ancient DNA from China’s vast 4,000-year-old Shimao settlement is revealing how one of East Asia’s earliest complex societies was organized. Researchers found that its people were largely descended fr...
sciencedaily.com
"Airborne bathymetric Lidar uses a pulsed green laser, usually at a wavelength of 532nm, to penetrate water surfaces and gather data from underwater landscapes." www.hydro-international.com/content/arti...
Charting depths from above with airborne bathymetric Lidar
The mapping of underwater terrain and the monitoring of coastal and inland waters have been transformed by airborne bathymetric Lidar. The precision o...
hydro-international.com
"A remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROUV)[1] or remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is a free-swimming submersible craft." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remotel...
Remotely operated underwater vehicle - Wikipedia
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"An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is a robot that travels underwater without requiring continuous input from an operator." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonom...
Autonomous underwater vehicle - Wikipedia
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"The discovery comes from the Lingjing archaeological site, where researchers have spent more than 10 years excavating animal bones and sophisticated stone tools linked to an extinct human relative called Homo juluensis." www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202....
Ice age humans in China crafted surprisingly advanced stone tools 146,000 years ago
Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age 146,000 years ago. The tools, created by Homo juluensis, show careful planning a...
sciencedaily.com
"Researchers had previously discovered artifacts such as bone needles and figurines depicting figures wearing garments in Eurasia that are 50,000 years old." www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
These 12,000-Year-Old Scraps of Elk Hide May Be the World's Oldest Known Examples of Sewing
Indigenous groups in present-day Oregon stitched the fragments together using cord made from plant fiber and animal hair. Experts think they may have been part of a garment, bag, container or portable...
smithsonianmag.com
"The discovery, led by archaeologist Ergül Kodaş of Mardin Artuklu University, dates to the late Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic periods, roughly between 12,000 and 10,000 years ago." www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/1000...
10,000-year-old settlement challenges traditional views on the origins of sedentary life
Archaeologists working in southeastern Türkiye have uncovered a 10,000-year-old settlement that may reshape current theories about how and when humans began living in permanent communities. The site, ...
heritagedaily.com
Congratulations, Lexica, winning the Coolest Tool Award at Wikimania 2026 in Paris! 🏆
Wikidata@wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 2w ago🏆 Lexica, a Wikidata tool, has won the Coolest Tool Award at Wikimania 2026 in Paris! Editing Lexemes on Wikidata means learning concepts like Senses and Forms before making even a small edit — tough on mobile or for newcomers.
"...Woolpert and partners embarked on the ambitious Florida Seafloor Mapping Initiative (FSMI), a multifaceted project led by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) to create a high-resolution seafloor surface model of the state’s coastal waters."
Lidar + Sonar = a revolution in seafloor mapping
Beneath the sunlit waves of Florida lies an intricate underwater world that few have seen but many depend on. Through the Florida Seafloor Mapping Ini...
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"The oldest evidence for an in situ pyre dates to ~11,500 years ago from the Xaasaa Na′ (Upward Sun River) site in Alaska and contains the remains of a ~3-year-old child (11)." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa
The world’s oldest in situ adult funeral pyre (~9500 years old) shows complex mortuary behaviors among ancient African foragers.
science.org
"The revelation of an 11,000-year-old pre-contact settlement—one of the oldest known Indigenous sites on the continent—confirms that highly organized societies existed in the region far earlier than previously believed." artsandscience.usask.ca/news/article....
11,000-year-old Indigenous village uncovered near Sturgeon Lake - College of Arts and Science - University of Saskatchewan
Archaeologists including Dr. Glenn Stuart (PhD) of the USask Department of Anthropology worked with the community to study one of the oldest known Indigenous sites on the continent
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"...recent carbon dating of many elements of Swan Point executed by UAF’s Josh Reuther, Rowe and others showed that Elma’s tusk dates to a time that ancient people were present at Swan Point, from 13,000 to 14,000 years ago." www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-scien....
On the ancient trail of a woolly mammoth | Geophysical Institute
The female woolly mammoth was 20 years old when she stumbled amid the grasslands. She fell in a cloud of dust, then gasped her last breath of cool air.
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"The team members identified archaeological sites dating from the later seventh century B.C. through the mid-nineteenth century A.D." archaeology.org/news/2026/04....
News - Aegean Underwater Archaeological Sites Surveyed - Archaeology Magazine
KARPATHOS, GREECE—According to the Greek Reporter, an international team of researchers has conducted a survey […]
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"As of May 2026 we have officially dedicated our Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) to the PUBLIC DOMAIN!" 🕊️🔒 discord.com/channels/144...
"Overall, nearly a fifth – up to 18% – of the phytoliths were burnt or melted. Their presence throughout the dated deposits implied that people had brought plants into the cave and burnt them there over the entire time-span of the past 25,000 years." www.miragenews.com/ancient-auss....
Ancient Aussie Cave Reveals 25,000-Year Grass Rituals
The GunaiKurnai, an Australian Aboriginal nation, are the acknowledged traditional custodians of Gippsland and the southern Victorian Alps. Within
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"...this article repeats an urgent call for four digital rights that would allow libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”) to uphold their shared public service mission of preserving history and providing access to information."
Internet Archive@archive.org · 2w ago🌐 Websites vanish. News archives go offline. Textbooks are withdrawn. Government reports are deleted. A new paper, THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, asks what happens next. 📖 Read or download it ⬇️ journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic... 🧵
"This ancient site dates back to about the end of the 5th millennium BC (about 4300 to 4000 BC) and challenges a long-held theory that megalithic funerary structures were initially restricted to the coastline before spreading inland." sciencex.com/news/2026-05....
A 6,000-year-old necropolis in central Spain is forcing a radical rethink of who built Europe's first great tombs
Archaeologists working in Toledo, central Spain, have discovered what they believe is the oldest documented monumental necropolis in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula. This ancient site dates back...
sciencex.com
“We have dug an archaeological site and obtained samples of wood charcoal from a hearth, a little fireplace, and we sent them to a radiocarbon dating lab and...at about 7,800 years old,” Director of Archaeology at the Alutiiq Museum, Molly Odell... www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/08/24/a...
About 300 years older: Oldest archeological site on Kodiak Archipelago found
For half a century, archaeologists working in the Kodiak region believed that the oldest dated settlement was around 7,500 years old. That history is now expanding even further back thanks to a new fi...
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"Throughout Sardinia, these newly Unesco-inscribed stone necropolises tell the story of the island's pre-Roman funerary customs. But for locals, they're the enchanted homes of fairies." www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Sardinia's sacred Neolithic 'fairy houses'
Throughout Sardinia, these newly Unesco-inscribed stone necropolises tell the story of the island's pre-Roman funerary customs. But for locals, they're the enchanted homes of fairies.
bbc.com
"Here we sequenced a 2× coverage whole genome from an adult male Egyptian excavated at Nuwayrat (Nuerat, نويرات)." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian - Nature
Whole-genome sequencing of an ancient male Egyptian revealed a mixture of North African Neolithic and eastern Fertile Crescent ancestry, suggesting human migration between Egypt and Mesopotamia by the...
nature.com
"The Digital Twin (DT) technology shifts the monitoring and control of physical assets into cyberspace through loT, network, and simulation technologies." www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/14...
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"Chemical analysis by the team, using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF), found the drill was made from an unusual copper alloy." phys.org/news/2026-02...
5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools
A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested. Researchers at Newcastle University, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienn...
phys.org
Occupation at Girsu dates from the Early Dynastic period (2900-2335 BC), emerging as the capital of the Lagash Kingdom, and a major administrative centre during the Ur III period (2112-2004 BC). www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/roya...
Royal Sumerian palace and temple uncovered in ancient Girsu
Archaeologists from the Girsu Project have uncovered the remains of a Royal Sumerian palace and temple complex in the ancient city of Girsu, located in the Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq. - HeritageDaily -...
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"The report states that the discovery provides important evidence about an obscure line of rulers, known as the 'Abydos Dynasty,' that ruled Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period between 1700 and 1600 B.C." archaeology.org/news/2025/03...
News - Unknown Royal Tomb Unearthed in Abydos - Archaeology Magazine
ABYDOS, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a joint Egyptian-American team uncovered a royal tomb at the […]
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