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Are Göbekli Tepe’s ‘Handbag’ Carvings Actually Building Plans?
Archaeology
Are Göbekli Tepe’s ‘Handbag’ Carvings Actually Building Plans?
For years, three rectangular shapes on Gobekli Tepe's Vulture Stone have been called "handbags." A new…
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9,000-Year-Old Mining Workshop Found at Çayönü Tepesi
Archaeology
9,000-Year-Old Mining Workshop Found at Çayönü Tepesi
Archaeologists at Cayonu Tepesi in southeastern Turkiye have uncovered a roughly 5-square-meter mining workshop dating to…
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An 11,000-Year-Old Statue Shows a Man Riding a Leopard
Archaeology
An 11,000-Year-Old Statue Shows a Man Riding a Leopard
Archaeologists at Karahantepe in southeastern Turkiye have uncovered a 70-centimeter, 11,000-year-old statue showing a human seated…
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4,300-Year-Old Tomb Holds Earliest Dragon-Phoenix Pairing
Archaeology
4,300-Year-Old Tomb Holds Earliest Dragon-Phoenix Pairing
A 4,300-year-old tomb at the Zhaizita stone-walled site in Inner Mongolia contained a dragon-shaped and phoenix-shaped…
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Does Göbekli Tepe’s Vulture Stone Record a Comet Impact?
Archaeology
Does Göbekli Tepe’s Vulture Stone Record a Comet Impact?
A 2017 study proposed that Gobekli Tepe's carved Vulture Stone encodes the date of a catastrophic…
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What’s Buried Inside Brittany’s Neolithic Earth Mounds?
Archaeology
What’s Buried Inside Brittany’s Neolithic Earth Mounds?
Electrical surveys at the Coeby Neolithic cemetery in Brittany have detected buried stone structures inside two…
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Inverted, Symbolic, and 5,000 Years Old: The Gökhöyük Jar
Archaeology
Inverted, Symbolic, and 5,000 Years Old: The Gökhöyük Jar
At Gokhoyuk in central Turkey, archaeologists uncovered a 5,000-year-old ceramic jar decorated with a human face,…
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Stonehenge’s Altar Stone: Human Effort, Glacier, or Both?
Archaeology
Stonehenge’s Altar Stone: Human Effort, Glacier, or Both?
The Altar Stone at Stonehenge came from northeast Scotland, roughly 700 kilometres away. A new study…
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They Carried Fish Up Norwegian Mountains 7,000 Years Ago
Archaeology
They Carried Fish Up Norwegian Mountains 7,000 Years Ago
Wooden fish traps found in the exposed bed of Lake Tesse in Norway date to around…
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The Cave That Holds the Neolithic Transition in Catalonia
Archaeology
The Cave That Holds the Neolithic Transition in Catalonia
A 2026 excavation at Coves del Fem in Catalonia recovered Early Neolithic Cardial remains sitting directly…
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Foragers or Farmers? Ancient DNA Reveals Maghreb’s Unexpected Neolithic Story
Archaeology
Foragers or Farmers? Ancient DNA Reveals Maghreb’s Unexpected Neolithic Story

New DNA analysis of ancient Maghreb populations reveals genetic continuity during the Neolithic, challenging the idea…
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