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Stone tools and camel tooth suggest people were in the Pacific Northwest more than 18,000 years ago
17th July 2023 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans

Although this is not the earliest date for human occupation of the Americas that has been proposed, the finding, which is not yet published in a peer-reviewed study, appears to be thousands of years older than any other archaeological site in Oregon.

Project uses AI and archaeological materials for network analyses from the Middle Stone Age to antiquity
17th July 2023 phys.org | Ancient, Humans, Tech

Publishing in the international journal Antiquity, a team of archaeologists from seven countries led by Kiel University has presented the “Big Exchange” project, which uses AI to better understand the networks and interactions of prehistoric and early historic people.

Mysterious Labyrinth Found Hidden Under a Church in Mexico
17th July 2023 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Humans

Archaeologists working at the Mitla site in southern Mexico have come across a discovery worthy of an Indiana Jones movie: a labyrinth of chambers and passageways hidden below a church, representing an ‘entrance’ to the underworld.

‘Hugely exciting and rare’: Neolithic polishing stone found in Dorset
14th July 2023 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Humans

‘Polissoir’, discovered in Valley of Stones nature reserve, was used about 5,000 years ago to hone tools such as axes.

Reductions in experiential avoidance play a key role in the therapeutic effects of psilocybin-assisted therapy, study finds
14th July 2023 | psypost.org | Humans, Misc.

The findings, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, highlight the importance of experiential avoidance as a potential mechanism underlying the positive effects of psilocybin therapy.

This Meteorite Left Earth. Thousands of Years Later, It Came Back.
14th July 2023 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Earth, Space, Weird

They say what goes around comes around, but it’s unlikely the saying was supposed to ever refer to meteorites. And yet here we are. Scientists are seeking to confirm that a black rock discovered in Morocco in 2018 departed Earth’s pull for outer space, only to return to it like a prodigal child.

Giant sloth pendants indicate humans settled Americas earlier than thought
13th July 2023 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Humans

New research suggests humans lived in South America at the same time as now extinct giant sloths, bolstering evidence that people arrived in the Americas earlier than once thought.

The ‘man in the moon’ may be hundreds of millions of years older than we thought
13th July 2023 | livescience.com | Ancient, Space

Much of the moon’s surface is 200 million years older than previously estimated, a new analysis suggests.

The Entire Universe Could Be Twice as Old as We Thought
13th July 2023 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Space

By marrying the existing expanding Universe theory with a fringe explanation called the tired light hypothesis, Gupta has found the Big Bang could have taken place an astonishing 26.7 billion years ago. That’s twice as old as current models predict. This research was published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Both humans and AI hallucinate — but not in the same way
12th July 2023 | psypost.org | Humans, Tech

The launch of ever-capable large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5 has sparked much interest over the past six months. However, trust in these models has waned as users have discovered they can make mistakes – and that, just like us, they aren’t perfect.

The orca uprising: whales are ramming boats – but are they inspired by revenge, grief or memory?
12th July 2023 | theguardian.com | Animal Life, Humans

A pod in the strait of Gibraltar has sunk three boats and damaged dozens of others, and their story has captivated the world. What explains this unprecedented behaviour?

Were Neanderthals really killed off by Campi Flegrei, Europe’s awakening ‘supervolcano’?
12th July 2023 | livescience.com | Ancient, Earth, Humans

The volcano beneath Italy erupted 40,000 years ago and had catastrophic impact on Earth’s climate — around the same time that the Neanderthals began their slow march to extinction.

Scientists Discover Ancient Traces of The Oldest Glaciers Ever Found
12th July 2023 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Earth

Scientists think they’ve uncovered evidence of the oldest glaciers ever found, in ancient rocks speckled with oxygen isotopes lying beneath the world’s largest gold deposits in South Africa. The study was published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters, with further results presented at the European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society’s Goldschmidt Conference.

Stars From The Dawn of The Universe Found Hidden in The Heart of Our Own Galaxy
10th July 2023 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Space

Ancient stars born during the Cosmic Dawn have been identified in the center of the Milky Way. As part of a survey to uncover some of the oldest known stars in the Universe, scientists conducted a comprehensive search for these ancient but elusive stars. Their findings have been presented at the UK’s annual National Astronomy Meeting.

Highest-ranking person in Copper Age Spain was a woman, not a man, genetic analysis shows
7th July 2023 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans, Tech

Since its discovery in 2008, the skeleton of a high-ranking individual buried inside a tomb in the Iberian Peninsula between 3,200 and 2,200 years ago was thought to be the remains of a man. However, a new analysis reveals that this person was actually a woman.

Giant stone artefacts found on rare Ice Age site in Kent
7th July 2023 | ucl.ac.uk | Ancient, Humans

The researchers, from UCL Archaeology South-East, discovered 800 stone artefacts thought to be over 300,000 years old, buried in sediments which filled a sinkhole and ancient river channel, outlined in their research, published in Internet Archaeology.

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