The Gobi Desert today is one of the driest and harshest landscapes on Earth, stretching over northern China and Mongolia. Yet, a recent study published in PLOS One reveals that thousands of years ago, the desert was dotted with wetlands and lakes that nourished fertile ground for human life. University of Wrocław archaeologists, in collaboration […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A new detailed analysis of archaeological evidence demonstrates that early human populations of southern South America relied on extinct megafauna—such as giant sloths, giant armadillos, and prehistoric horses—as a regular food source, rather than as occasional or opportunistic prey. The results defy common presumptions that these large animals were hardly affected by human hunting and […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A crushed and distorted skull discovered in central China nearly 35 years ago is now redefining our understanding of early human evolution in Asia. Scientists have digitally reconstructed the 1-million-year-old Yunxian 2 cranium and discovered that it likely belonged to a close relative of the mysterious Denisovans and was a member of a lineage called […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Archaeologists in Southeast Asia have unearthed what may be the oldest mummies in the world, dating back as far as 12,000 years. The pre-Neolithic burials, found throughout southern China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, reflect an enduring tradition of mummification among early hunter-gatherer societies. Unlike the prostrate, supine burial poses typical of […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
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Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Christian Reepmeyer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – German Archaeological Institute, and Theodora Moutsiou, University of Cyprus Imagine growing up beside the eastern Mediterranean Sea 14,000 years ago. You’re an accomplished sailor of the small watercraft you and your fellow villagers make, and you live off both the sea and theContinue reading "Small populations of Stone Age people drove dwarf hippos and elephants to extinction on Cyprus"| Global Ecology @ Flinders
Wildfire burns between 3.94 million and 5.19 million square kilometres of land every year worldwide. If that area were a single country, it would be the seventh largest in the world. In Australia, most fire occurs in the vast tropical savannas of the country’s north. In new research published in Nature Geoscience, we show IndigenousContinue reading "Indigenous fire management began more than 11,000 years ago: new research"| Global Ecology @ Flinders
For much of the 65,000 years of Australia’s human history, the now-submerged northwest continental shelf connected the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land. This vast, habitable realm covered nearly 390,000 square kilometres, an area one-and-a-half times larger than New Zealand is today. It was likely a single cultural zone, with similarities in ground stone-axe technology, stylesContinue reading "People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia – and it had an inland sea"| Global Ecology @ Flinders
Wildfire burns between 3.94 million and 5.19 million square kilometres of land every year worldwide. If that area were a single country, it would be the seventh largest in the world. In Australia, …| ConservationBytes.com
