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6,000-Year-Old Chleby Enclosure: Sun and Moon Alignments
6+ hour, 13+ min ago (580+ words) Twelve entrances opened onto the horizon at Chleby. The excavators link their directions to the Sun and Moon, raising questions about how people gathered there. The post A 6,000-Year-Old Czech Enclosure Had Twelve Entrances Aligned With the Sky appeared first…...
Ice Age carvers used mammoth tusk patterns to create unique art, study finds
14+ hour, 18+ min ago (599+ words) image: Ice Age craftspeople carefully observed and mimicked the natural lines of mammoth ivory in the art. view more Credit: University of York Intricate designs engraved across the surface of 18,000-year-old female figurines carved from mammoth ivory were inspired by…...
18,000-year-old Ice Age artists used natural mammoth tusk patterns in their art | Archaeology News Online Magazine
18+ hour, 56+ min ago (506+ words) A study of 18 female figurines from Mizyn in northern Ukraine shows how Ice Age artists used mammoth ivory in their work. The carvers studied the material closely and built parts of their engraved designs around natural lines inside the tusks....
Archaeologists Uncover a 6,000-Year-Old Trypillia Dwelling in Ukraine
1+ day, 56+ min ago (592+ words) A routine gardening task opened a window into a forgotten settlement. Researchers now hope hidden traces will reveal how its residents lived. Archaeologists in the Ternopil region have discovered a Trypillia dwelling that may be around 6,000 years old. The ancient…...
An altar of fire and a 2,300-year-old chest found in Uzbekistan reopen the mystery of how the ancestors of the Zoroastrians buried their dead
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (573+ words) In southern Uzbekistan, archaeologists have uncovered a repeatedly repaired fire altar and a bone urn dating back more than 2,000 years — evidence that the people who lived there followed a funerary custom that avoided both burial and cremation, centuries before Zoroastrianism's…...
Williston reflects on Baster community???s migration history
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (343+ words) Williston, South Africa, reflects on the history of the Baster community’s migration ua.news Williston, South Africa, reflects on the history of the Baster community’s migration In Williston, South Africa, local community organization ROCS is turning to the little-known history…...
A Canadian law quietly turned generations of upstate New Yorkers into dual citizens
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (840+ words) In Clinton County, New York, 6,988 residents told the U.S. Census Bureau they have Canadian or French Canadian ancestry. The county holds 78,493 people, working out to one in every 11. Franklin County runs close behind at one in 14, and St. Lawrence County sits…...
Early Medieval Village and 122 Graves Studied in Switzerland
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (340+ words) Archaeologists have completed a major study of an early medieval village and 122 burials discovered near Bern, Switzerland. Dating from the sixth to ninth centuries, the site offers rare evidence of how people lived, worked and buried their dead during the…...
A Circular Monument Built 1,000 Years Before Stonehenge Just Emerged From the Czech Soil, With Human Bones Beside It
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (361+ words) A monumental circle rose from the earth near a small Czech village nearly 6,500 years ago, built by hands that somehow understood the sky better than we'd ever expect. A circular monument built 6,500 years ago near the present-day municipality of Chleby,…...
In 1915, Stonehenge came up as Lot 15 at an auction in Salisbury, and a local barrister bought it for £6,600 along with about 30 acres of downland. He handed it to the nation three years later, with a deed saying public admission should cost no more than a shilling per visit.
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (129+ words) Why would anyone buy a stone circle at a country auction? Not the farmland around it, not a grand house, but the ruin itself, listed as a numbered lot on a...