Cave diver inspects the skull of Naia, a 12,500-year-old teenage girl discovered in a submerged cave on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. I mage credit: Daniel Riordan Araujo. The well-preserved, genetically intact skeleton of a teenage girl who lived about 13,000-12,000 years ago in what is now Mexico is helping resolve a long-standing question of […]
The cave where the bones were found. Photo: Egnoka/Wikimedia Excursionists hiking up a mountain in the Lazio region were stunned last week after they came across the suspected skeleton of an ancient Roman child while exploring a cave. The bones were found inside a shattered Roman clay jar, or anfora, which the hikers noticed […]
Knee socks. Credit: Kaap Skil ‘Rarely, if ever, has such a big discovery been made in a maritime context’, says Maarten van Bommel, Professor of Conservation Science and chair of the section Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the UvA. The items, which were found at the wreck of a 17th-century ship in the […]
A proposed perennial plate tectonic map. Present-day plate boundaries (white lines), with hidden ancient plate boundaries that may reactivate to control plate tectonics (yellow lines). Regions where mantle lithosphere heterogeneities have been located are given by yellow crosses. Credit: Russell Pysklywec, Philip Heron, Randell Stephenson This changes the widespread view that only interactions at the […]
Homo Erectus Fossilized footprints. Photo: Sapienza University A team of Italian researchers have possibly uncovered the oldest ever fossilized footprint left behind by modern man’s ancestor, Homo Erectus. The prints are thought to date back some 800,000 years and were unearthed in the desert of south eastern Eritrea. “Their age is yet to be confirmed with certainty, […]
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