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Homo antecessor Cannibalism, Gran Dolina, SpainExcavations at Gran Dolina cave in Spain's Sierra de Atapuerca complex un...
11/08/2026

Homo antecessor Cannibalism, Gran Dolina, Spain

Excavations at Gran Dolina cave in Spain's Sierra de Atapuerca complex uncovered new fossil evidence of cannibalism dating back roughly 850,000 years. Researchers from IPHES identified two dozen bones from Homo antecessor, an extinct human relative, many bearing cut marks matching stone tools found at the site. Earlier studies suggested victims were mostly infants and juveniles, easier prey within a rival group. But newly excavated remains include far more adults than expected, upending that assumption. With at least 13 individuals identified and human bite marks found on some bones, the strongest evidence bodies were actually consumed, researchers hope to finally understand why H. antecessor practiced this behavior.

Medieval Swedish Graves, Unrelated BurialsResearchers analyzed DNA from 142 skeletons across three medieval Swedish ceme...
11/08/2026

Medieval Swedish Graves, Unrelated Burials

Researchers analyzed DNA from 142 skeletons across three medieval Swedish cemeteries dating to the 10th through 14th centuries, focusing on graves where two or more people shared the same tomb. Study first author Maja Krzewińska of Stockholm University said the assumption had always been that adults and children buried together were close family, but in most cases, that wasn't what the DNA showed. Grave-mates were usually the same s*x, a woman with a girl, a man with a boy, yet rarely closely related. As Christianity spread across Scandinavia, unbaptized babies were barred from consecrated burial ground, so researchers suspect some of these children were opportunistically buried alongside unrelated adults to get around that restriction. Other pairings may simply reflect people who died in winter, when frozen ground delayed burial until spring. One standout case, a Christian pilgrim researchers call "Lady 56," was buried with a scallop shell marking her journey to Santiago de Compostela, and DNA later linked her to three generations of her own family scattered across the same cemetery.

Chancay Mummy Mask, PeruA 1,000-YEAR-OLD Peruvian mummy mask was made with real human hair and toxic mercury-based paint...
11/08/2026

Chancay Mummy Mask, Peru

A 1,000-YEAR-OLD Peruvian mummy mask was made with real human hair and toxic mercury-based paint. Crafted by an artist of the Chancay people, a pre-Inca culture that lived along Peru's central coast between roughly 1000 and 1450, the wooden mask was tied onto a funerary bundle to act as a "false head." Because Chancay burials wrapped the dead in a fetal position, layered in textiles, plant material, and animal skin, it wasn't always obvious exactly where the head ended up once the bundle was complete, so these carved masks served as a focal point for venerating the ancestor within. Roughly life-size at 12 by 8 inches, the mask features deliberately simplified, non-realistic features, diamond-shaped eyes, a triangular nose, and a tiny U-shaped smile, topped with a wig almost certainly made from real human hair. It was painted red with cinnabar, a toxic mercury-based pigment tied to purification and commemoration in Andean funerary rituals, though a patterned impression left in the paint suggests the mask itself was later wrapped in even more layers of cloth, meaning it was never actually meant to be seen.

Sunken Settlement, Lake Bolsena, ItalyDuring the 2026 excavation season at Gran Carro, a Bronze Age settlement submerged...
11/08/2026

Sunken Settlement, Lake Bolsena, Italy

During the 2026 excavation season at Gran Carro, a Bronze Age settlement submerged beneath the volcanic waters of Lake Bolsena in central Italy, archaeologists found intact ears of spelt grain preserved inside ceramic vessels, remarkably undamaged after roughly 3,000 years underwater. Organic material like this almost never survives on dry archaeological sites, which is what makes the find so unusual. The pottery accompanying it points to a Proto-Villanovan phase at Gran Carro, extending the settlement's known history and suggesting it was occupied across several distinct periods rather than just one. The grain was found alongside items resembling grave goods from later Villanovan burials, raising questions about whether it held ritual or funerary significance rather than being purely everyday food. Nearby, large wooden elements were also uncovered beneath stones in what's described as a sacred mound, though archaeologists still aren't sure whether they formed part of a building, platform, or something else entirely.

AI + LiDAR for Hidden ArchaeologyResearchers Gabriele Mazzacca and Fabio Remondino tested a new AI approach for automati...
11/08/2026

AI + LiDAR for Hidden Archaeology

Researchers Gabriele Mazzacca and Fabio Remondino tested a new AI approach for automatically analyzing LiDAR data collected over sites hidden beneath forest canopy, in the Italian Alps, Tuscany, and Croatia. Forests can conceal ancient walls, roads, and earthworks under dense vegetation, and LiDAR captures the landscape beneath the trees, but the resulting scans contain millions of data points too dense to sort through by hand. Their approach split the problem into stages, first separating vegetation from bare ground, then identifying likely structures within what remained, using a deep-learning model called Point Transformer that significantly outperformed older machine-learning methods at recognizing fragmented, eroded, or partially buried ruins. One surprising finding: sharper, higher-resolution scans barely improved accuracy while taking roughly four times longer to process, a trade-off worth considering for large-scale surveys. The goal isn't replacing archaeologists, but narrowing down which locations are worth their time, letting AI flag promising sites for actual fieldwork.

New Tomb at Hattusa, TürkiyeAt Hattusa, the former capital of the Hittite Empire in Türkiye's Boğazkale district, this s...
11/08/2026

New Tomb at Hattusa, Türkiye

At Hattusa, the former capital of the Hittite Empire in Türkiye's Boğazkale district, this season's excavation on the Northwest Slope uncovered a previously unknown cemetery holding three tombs, dating to the late 4th through 3rd century BC. Led by Prof. Dr. Andreas Schachner of the German Archaeological Institute, the team found one grave in particularly remarkable condition, its stone ring intact and the skeleton inside fully preserved, a rarity for burials of this type. Beside the individual's right shoulder rested a knife, and researchers can't yet say whether it was a burial offering or something the person carried in life. Interestingly, most tombs found in this same area last season belonged to women, making this well-preserved, possibly male burial an outlier. Across the wider site, archaeologists have now documented 17 tombs from this specific era, part of nearly 8,000 years of continuous human settlement uncovered since excavations began in 1906.

The Monk Who Beat Halley to His CometA comet that flew over England in 989 stuck with a young monk named Eilmer of Malme...
11/08/2026

The Monk Who Beat Halley to His Comet

A comet that flew over England in 989 stuck with a young monk named Eilmer of Malmesbury, and it turned out to be a good memory. Decades later, in 1066, he saw what he recognized as the same "gleaming star" again, connecting two sightings of what we now call Halley's Comet more than six centuries before Edmond Halley formally worked out its orbit in 1705. According to 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury, upon spotting it a second time, Eilmer exclaimed, "You've come, have you?... I see you brandishing the downfall of my mother-country," a chillingly accurate warning, since England was gripped by a succession crisis that same year, ending in the Norman Conquest. Eilmer wasn't just an astronomer either; in the late 990s or early 1000s, he reportedly built a set of wings, leapt from a tower, and glided roughly 200 meters before crashing and breaking both legs, making him possibly the first person in Britain to attempt flight.

Life's Rebound After the Dinosaur-Killing AsteroidAround 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 7.5 miles wide struck...
11/08/2026

Life's Rebound After the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid

Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 7.5 miles wide struck off Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, blocking out the sun for about a decade and wiping out roughly 75% of all plant and animal species on Earth, including the non-avian dinosaurs. For decades, scientists estimated it took about 30,000 years for the first new species to evolve in the aftermath, based on how quickly ocean sediment was assumed to build up. A new study used a more precise clock: helium-3, a form of cosmic dust that falls to Earth at a constant, measurable rate. Recalibrating the timeline this way, researchers found that new plankton species may have appeared in as little as 2,000 years, with some evolving within a few thousand years across multiple sites worldwide. "It's ridiculously fast," said one of the study's co-authors. Life didn't just survive. It rebounded almost immediately, on a geological timescale.

Lost Aquiry Civilization, Amazon RainforestNew lidar scans cutting through the dense Amazon canopy revealed 396 previous...
10/08/2026

Lost Aquiry Civilization, Amazon Rainforest

New lidar scans cutting through the dense Amazon canopy revealed 396 previously unknown geoglyphs in Brazil's Acre state, built by a civilization researchers call the Aquiry, which arose roughly 2,500 years ago. Led by University of Helsinki archaeologist Martti Pärssinen, the study surveyed nearly 1,740 square miles of rainforest and estimated the Aquiry may have had between 1.25 and 3 million people at their peak, sometime between AD 100 and 300, based on the sheer scale of ditches and embankments needed to construct each ceremonial center. Communities lived in multifamily longhouses around these earthworks, farming maize and squash, and used the sites to strengthen ties between groups and hold political gatherings. Around 1,700 geoglyphs are known so far, but researchers believe over 20,000 more remain hidden in unsurveyed forest. What's still unclear is why the Aquiry abruptly vanished sometime between AD 850 and 950, a collapse that curiously overlaps with the fall of the Classic Maya and the Tiwanaku and Wari civilizations in the Andes.

Syracusan Gold Coin, SicilyArchaeologists uncovered a rare, exceptionally well-preserved gold coin during an emergency e...
10/08/2026

Syracusan Gold Coin, Sicily

Archaeologists uncovered a rare, exceptionally well-preserved gold coin during an emergency excavation of a Greek tile-covered tomb at the Maddalusa necropolis near Agrigento, in the coastal dunes west of the Akragas River. Struck in the final decades of the fifth century BC, it shows Heracles wearing the Nemean Lion's skin on one side, and a small female head with the inscription "Syra" on the other, confirming it as an issue from Syracuse. The city minted these gold coins specifically to help finance its military alliance with Akragas against the invading Carthaginian army. Despite that effort, Carthaginian forces captured and destroyed Akragas in 406 BC after a prolonged siege, ending its Golden Age as one of the leading Greek colonies in the western Mediterranean. The coin now stands as a rare, well-preserved witness to that turbulent final chapter.

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