Math Puzzles’ Oldest Ancestors Took Form on Egyptian Papyrus
British Museum
CALCULATIONS The scribe of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, an Egyptian document more than 3,600 years old, introduces the roughly 85 problems by saying that he is presenting the “correct method of reckoning, for grasping the meaning of things and knowing everything that is, obscurities and all secrets.”
By PAM BELLUCK
Published: December 6, 2010
The first brain teasers were practical: problems to calculate how efficient a laborer was by how many logs he carried, or to gauge the potency of beer.
Stonehenge, the mysterious circle of mammoth stone pillars in the middle of the English countryside, now has a slightly smaller twin.
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Signs of Neanderthals Mating With Humans
Johannes Krause MPI-EVA
The Vindija cave in Croatia where three small Neanderthal bones were found.
Scientists Rebuild Iceman Genome From Hair Sample
1) – An international team of scientists has rebuilt the genome of an ancient human for the first time.
The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone - How In The World Did The Ten Commandments Get To America Before Columbus Did?
The last speaker of an ancient language in India's Andaman Islands has died at the age of about 85, a leading linguist has told the BBC.
Stone Age surgery discovered after 7,000-year-old man found with expertly amputated arm
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Advanced: Stone Age men had more medical knowledge than first thought
Evidence of surgery carried out nearly 7,000 year ago has emerged – suggesting our Stone Age ancestors were more medically advanced than first thought.
JERUSALEM (AP) - Archaeologists have uncovered remains of an 8,000-year-old prehistoric building as well as ancient flint tools in the modern city of Tel Aviv, Israel's Antiquities Authority announced Monday.
Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months
JUST months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age.
Stone Age humans crossed Sahara in the rain
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Wet spells in the Sahara may have opened the door for early human migration.
In what was slated to be the site of a new 122-room hotel, archaeologists say they have discovered one of the world's oldest synagogues in Northern Israel.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/a-skull-that-rewrites-the-hist...
A skull that rewrites the history of man
It has long been agreed that Africa was the sole cradle of human evolution.
This article is specifically geared toward Biblical Archaeology, but I am sure the same would hold true for any archaeological site.
A discovery of a 47 million-year-old fossil primate that is said to be a human ancestor was announced and unveiled Tuesday at a press conference in New York City.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/science/14venus.html?_r=1&ref=science
Full-Figured Statuette, 35,000 Years Old, Provides New Clues to How Art Evolved
No one would mistake the Stone Age ivory carving for a Venus de Milo.
Scientists have found more evidence that the Indonesian "Hobbit" skeletons belong to a new species of human - and not modern pygmies.
Five lines of ancient script on a shard of pottery could be the oldest example of Hebrew writing ever discovered, an archaeologist in Israel says.