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Mysterious Pictish Symbols Discovered in Scotland Are The ‘Find of a Lifetime’
24th March 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Humans

Archaeologists in Scotland shed “genuine tears” upon discovering a stone covered with geometric carvings that the Picts, the Indigenous people of the region, designed about 1,500 years ago.

People in One of World’s Oldest Cities Colored The Bones of Their Dead
22nd March 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Humans

The sprawling ruins of Çatalhöyük – a vast, ancient human settlement in what we now know as Turkey – are much like a precursor to the modern metropolis of today. Yet, over the course of 9,000 years, times have certainly changed.

Orangutans use slang to ‘show off their coolness’, study suggests
22nd March 2022 | theguardian.com | Animal Life

Primates come up with new ‘kiss-squeak’ alarm calls that spread quickly through communities, research says.

Sulfur from dino-killing asteroid caused way more global cooling than thought
22nd March 2022 | livescience.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Earth

When the dinosaur-destroying asteroid collided with Earth 66 million years ago, massive amounts of sulfur — volumes more than were previously thought — were thrown high above land into the stratosphere, a new study finds.

Study ties present-day Native American tribe to ancestors in San Francisco Bay Area
22nd March 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

A genomic study of Native peoples in the San Francisco Bay Area finds that eight present-day members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe share ancestry with 12 individuals who lived in the region several hundred to 2,000 years ago…the study challenges the notion that the Ohlone migrated to the area between A.D. 500-1,000…

Lunar Eclipses Have a Peculiar Effect on Migrating Swifts – But So Does The Full Moon
20th March 2022 | sciencealert.com | Animal Life, Earth

As the full Moon rises, so too does the Northern black swift (Cypseloides niger borealis). When this little bird migrates from the Rocky Mountains to the Amazon rainforest, researchers have found it uses moonlight to regain its energy.

Fears dash for wind power could cut off lost world of Doggerland
20th March 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Earth, Humans

While the Conservative party’s proposed dash for wind power is good news for the climate it could be bad news for archaeology, with rapid offshore windfarm development sealing off access to some of the best-preserved and most complete evidence of early human communities in the world.

Government Scientists to Scan Great Pyramid With Cosmic Rays to Find Secrets
18th March 2022 | vice.com | Ancient, Humans, Tech

Individual artifacts might be detectable with an advanced telescope that captures particles made in outer space.

Largest ever psychedelics study maps changes of conscious awareness to neurotransmitter systems
18th March 2022 | mcgill.ca | Humans, Misc.

Applying machine learning to a database of testimonials uncovers how drug-induced changes in subjective awareness are mechanistically rooted in the human brain.

Ancient handprints on cave walls in Spain found to include children’s hands
17th March 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

A trio of researchers from Universidad de Cantabria and the University of Cambridge has found evidence suggesting that up to a quarter of all ancient handprints found on cave walls in Spain were made using children’s hands.

This Beautiful Reconstruction of a Stone Age Woman Feels Almost Like Time Travel
17th March 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Humans

A Stone Age woman who lived 4,000 years ago is leaning on her walking stick and looking ahead as a spirited young boy bursts into a run, in a stunning life-size reconstruction now on display in Sweden.

Scientists claim hairy black holes explain Hawking paradox
17th March 2022 | bbc.co.uk | Humans, Space, Weird

Scientists say they have solved one of the biggest paradoxes in science first identified by Prof Stephen Hawking.

Our universe may have a twin
16th March 2022 | livescience.com | Earth, Humans, Space, Weird

A wild new theory suggests there may be another “anti-universe,” running backward in time prior to the Big Bang.

New Experiments Hint Human Language Likely Didn’t Start With Grunts
16th March 2022 | sciencealert.com | Humans, Misc.

Our ability to elaborately communicate is one of humanity’s greatest superpowers. It allows us to retain and build knowledge across generations, cooperating at a global scale unlike anything else seen on Earth. But much about how this ability evolved is still a mystery, including its origins.

Ancient tombs and sarcophagus unearthed beneath Paris’ Notre Dame
16th March 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Humans

Archaeologists discover burial sites “of remarkable scientific quality” below the fire-damaged cathedral

Early warning system catches asteroid hours before it smashes into Earth
15th March 2022 | independent.co.uk | Humans, Space, Tech

Astronomers and the European Space Agency’s planetary defence community recently spotted an asteroid just hours before it struck the Earth

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