Prehistoric poop discovered near Stonehenge sheds light on the pets, parties, and dodgy diets of the Neolithic monument’s builders.
Author: Elif Duluk
Plankton’s endurance to prior global warming events is revealed by the discovery of “ghost” fossils.
An multinational team of experts from the Natural History Museum, UCL (University College London), the University of Florence, and the Swedish Museum of Natural History discovered a unique sort of fossilisation that had previously gone unnoticed.
The ‘ghost’ fossils are imprints of coccolithophores, which are single-celled plankton. Their discovery is altering our understanding of how climate change affects plankton in the oceans.
For the first time, an 8,600-year-old flute was displayed
A program was organized by the Bilecik Museum Directorate on the occasion of the 18 May International Museum Day. The finds unearthed in the Bahçelievler and Gedikkaya excavations in Bilecik, were opened to visitors.
Phoenician Necropolis discovered in Southern Spain in Iberian Peninsula
Workers in southern Spain renovating water supply discovered a “exceptional” and well-preserved necropolis of subterranean limestone vaults where the Phoenicians who resided on the Iberian peninsula 2,500 years ago buried their dead.
An ancient tooth of a mysterious Denisovan girl may have been discovered
The discovery of an ancient molar — a tooth that likely belonged to young girl who lived up to 164,000 years ago in a cave in what is now Laos — is new evidence that the mysterious human lineage dubbed the Denisovans, previously known only from caves in Siberia and China, also lived in Southeast Asia, a new study finds.
Genetic Origins of Earth’s First Farmers Confirmed
The earliest farmers came from a combination of two hunter-gatherer populations during a volatile period, not from a single group as one might imagine.
Stonehenge pits dating 10,000 years show the site was used much earlier than previously thought.
Archeologists have discovered hundreds of enormous hunting trenches beneath the Stonehenge landscape, revealing that humans have been using this world-famous prehistoric site for much longer than previously thought.
Learned what Bronze Age daggers are used for
An international research team led by the University of Newcastle in England Through his work, Bronze Age daggers were discovered to be employed for processing animal carcasses rather than as non-functional markers of identity and status, as previously assumed.
Contemporary special buildings in Karahantepe and Göbeklitepe
During the excavations at Karahantepe in Şanlıurfa, special structures contemporaneous with Göbekli Tepe and a human statue with a leopard on its back were discovered. Interesting sculptures discovered have begun to be displayed in the Şanlıurfa Archeology Museum.