You may not be interested in politics, they say, but politics is interested in you. The same, if you believe famed mythologist Joseph Campbell, goes for myth: far from explaining only the origin of the world as believed by extinct… Continue Reading
In the mid 1800’s, boom-town San Francisco was a city of men, only about 15 percent women. Slavery was illegal in the West but still– white men were the ones cashing out on the boom. Mostly. Then there was Mary… Continue Reading
Language takes an astonishing variety of forms across the world—to such a huge extent that a long-standing debate rages around the question of whether all languages have even a single property in common. Well, there’s a new candidate for the elusive… Continue Reading
A team of archaeologists carrying out excavations at Kaman-Kalehoyuk in Turkey found evidence of the medicinal use of henbane seeds. The seeds, which were found in an old hearth, have therapeutic uses as well as narcotic and psychotropic effects. The… Continue Reading
These exclusive pictures show the world famous Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains from which a series of stunning scientific discoveries on man’s origins have been made in recent years. More are expected as a result of a hive of… Continue Reading
The results of an extensive analysis of a 50,000-year-old toe bone belonging to a Neanderthal woman, which was unearthed in a cave in 2010, have been long awaited. Now, after much anticipation, the findings have finally been released by the… Continue Reading
The British Museum is trying to help preserve African rock art. They have created a database of known rock art and it is an amazing tool for amateur and professional archeologists. http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/african_rock_art_image_project.aspx?fromShortUrl
Vice magazine Romania ran a typically skeptical, dirt-digging piece on Romanian fortune-tellers, who, reportedly, are locally referred to as witches. The most interesting bits discuss how this occupation is one of the few open to Romanian women outside of wife… Continue Reading
Tipón is one of the most captivating archaeological sites in Peru and reflects the awe-inspiring accomplishments of the Inca Empire. While traces of occupation at Tipón date back thousands of years, its most impressive development occurred about 500 years ago,… Continue Reading
In 1928 Julio Tello, a Peruvian Archaeologist, found a graveyard of human skulls that were extremely elongated. These skulls are over 3,000 years old. Recently DNA tests demonstrate that they’re not like any known human on the planet. FYI, they’re… Continue Reading