We humans are a messy bunch. Where we dwell, there accumulates evidence of our nesting. We have fossilized garbage piles dating back more than 100,000 years. It’s a whole thing. Putting aside its potential for harm, anthropogenic pollution can be a useful archaeological tool. We can see when people started using certain technologies, and trace…
An international team has uncovered archaeological evidence of the earliest known medicinal use of plants in the Pigeon Cave at Taforalt, located in Morocco’s Oriental region, as announced by the National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage (INSAP). This discovery dates back 15,000 years and has been detailed in a publication by the prestigious journal Nature….
Rodafnidia is an Acheulian site on Lesbos Island, in the north-east Aegean Sea. This chapter presents the model that guided Paleolithic investigations on the island, the history of … >>> Galanidou, N., Athanassas, C., Cole, J., Iliopoulos, G., Katerinopoulos, A., Magganas, A., McNabb, J. Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia: Human evolution and its context…