Ancient Beat

Hey, friends! This is issue #204 of Ancient Beat. ‚ÄėNuff said. Here‚Äôs the latest ancient news. ūüĎá Study Shows Prehistoric People Targeted Female Mammoths ‚ÄĒ Ancient DNA suggests Ice Age hunters deliberately targeted female woolly mammoths rather than killing males and females equally. Genetic analysis covered 521 mammoths spanning roughly 50,000 years, including 100 animals whose bones accumulated at 11 human-associated sites across Central and Eastern Europe and Siberia.

Hey team! This is issue #203 of Ancient Beat. Let’s get groovy. đŸ•ș Here’s the latest ancient news. 👇 Ancient Fossil Footsteps Found in Kenya May Hint That an Early Human Relative Was Larger Than Previously Thought — Twenty-one hominin footprints preserved at GaJi10 in northern Kenya’s Koobi Fora Formation capture at least eight individuals crossing a muddy lakeshore 1.43 million years ago. Most walked westward, apparently at roughly the same time, while one traveled east.

Hi folks! Welcome to issue #202 of Ancient Beat. Have any of you seen Nolan’s The Odyssey yet? I haven’t seen it, but I’m excited to check it out. I watched a historian review it (see the recommended content this week) and he gave it an 8.5/10 in terms of how much it honors the original text. Let me know if you agree! Here’s the latest ancient news.

Hello, all you lovable scoundrels. This is issue #201 of Ancient Beat. Here’s the latest ancient news. 👇 Hidden Maya Metropolis Mapped in Mexico’s Balam KĂș Biosphere Reserve — The first detailed ground survey of El Yesal, deep within the Balam KĂș Biosphere Reserve in Campeche, Mexico, has mapped one of the largest Maya cities in the Central Lowlands. Its monumental center covers more than 0.4 square miles.

Hi folks! Welcome to issue #200 of Ancient Beat. Wow, 200 issues! This calls for a celebration. No paywall this week. And here’s 25% off forever, just in case you’d like the whole kit and caboodle more often. Ok, here’s the latest ancient news.

Happy Fourth to those of you in the US! So, how’s it going? What’s new? Been a minute. Let’s get into some fresh discoveries, eh? This is issue #199 of Ancient Beat. Here’s the latest ancient news. 👇 Early Homo sapiens May Have Lived in Rainforests, New Clues Suggest — and It Could Overturn Our Understanding of Human Evolution — The old “humans evolved on the savanna” story is getting more complicated.

Hi friends! Welcome to issue #198 of Ancient Beat. Hereā€™s the latest ancient news. šŸ‘‡ Ancient Humans Used Fire Nearly 1.8 Million Years Ago, Cave Evidence Suggests ā€” New evidence from Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa suggests early humans were using fire deep inside caves nearly 1.8 million years ago. The key finds are tiny burnt animal bones from Early Pleistocene layers about 98 feet inside the cave, far beyond the likely reach of natural wildfires.

Hi folks, welcome to issue #197 of Ancient Beat! Hereā€™s the latest ancient news. šŸ‘‡ Striped Rock Dismissed As Natural In 1928 Reclassified As UKā€™s Oldest Cave Art ā€” Red horizontal bands on the wall of Bacon Hole, a cave near the Mumbles in south Wales, have been reclassified as intentional Paleolithic rock art after being dismissed for nearly a century as natural mineral staining.

Hey hey, let‚Äôs do that thing we do every Saturday. You know, the thing with the stuff that‚Äôs old but new and hopefully interesting. Yeah, that thing. Let‚Äôs do that. ūüĎá Satellite Imagery Reveals Monumental Tombs in Sudan‚Äôs Atbai Desert ‚ÄĒ Satellite surveys across Sudan‚Äôs Atbai Desert identified roughly 280 massive stone burial monuments tied to a long-lost pastoral culture that flourished between about 4500 and 2500 BCE, before the rise of dynastic Egypt.

The birds are are singing and it‚Äôs a glorious day, my friends. Perfect day for a cup of something lovely and a large helping of interesting ‚Äústuff‚ÄĚ (if you‚Äôll excuse the technical jargon). This is issue #195 of Ancient Beat. Here‚Äôs the latest ancient news.