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š§ Ancient Beat #175: Threadcraft, language, and solar-lunar observatories
A newly identified solar-aligned structure in Peruās Casma River valley appears to predate the well-known Chankillo Solar Observatory (built around 250ā¦
Nov 29
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James Fleischmann
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š§ Ancient Beat #174: Prehistoric stories, human grammar, and apes making out
A small clay figurine from a Late Natufian site overlooking the Sea of Galilee, dated to around 10,000 BCE, depicts a crouching woman with a gooseā¦
Nov 22
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James Fleischmann
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š§ Ancient Beat #173: Cosmograms, pyramid anomalies, and the "Band of Holes"
At the site of Aguada FĆ©nix in the Gulf lowlands of Mexico (Tabasco), dated to around 1050 BCE and built by early Maya groups, a cross-shaped pit carvedā¦
Nov 15
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James Fleischmann
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š§ Ancient Beat #172: Mathematical-ritual tools, opium, and a 100-mile journey with a 5-ton post
Around a millennium ago, scribes of the Maya civilization developed a sophisticated eclipse-prediction system using the Dresden Codex, a bark-paperā¦
Nov 1
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James Fleischmann
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October 2025
š§ Ancient Beat #171: Ritual landscapes, missing lineages, and shifts in the timeline
In central Jordanās Murayghat region, archaeologists have uncovered a vast Early Bronze Age ritual landscape dating to roughly 3500ā3000 BCE. Spreadā¦
Oct 25
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James Fleischmann
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š§ Ancient Beat #170: Scorpion mound observatories, tool making, and two sets of hunting megastructures worlds apart
An airborne laser survey on the Karst Plateau (Adriatic hinterland) uncovered four monumental dry-stone architectures (K01āK04) over ~870 kmĀ² (~336 sqā¦
Oct 18
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James Fleischmann
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š§ Ancient Beat #169: Lost languages, psychedelic cohesion, and walking moai statues
Teotihuacan, the vast metropolis that dominated central Mexico from around 100 BCE to 600 CE, has long remained one of Mesoamericaās great enigmas. Itsā¦
Oct 11
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James Fleischmann
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š§ Ancient Beat #168: An unexpected statue at Gƶbeklitepe, early usage of iron, and a skull that bridges lineages
A fossil skull, Yunxian 2, found in Hubei Province, China, and digitally reconstructed, has now been dated to ~1 million years ago. And it bridges keyā¦
Oct 4
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James Fleischmann
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September 2025
š§ Ancient Beat #167: Solstice sanctuaries, standing stones, and colossal statues
A 2,500-year-old sanctuary has been uncovered at El Fontanar near JĆ³dar in JaĆ©n, Spain, where architecture and astronomy merged into ritual performanceā¦
Sep 27
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James Fleischmann
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š§ Ancient Beat #166: Impact hypotheses, Neanderthal hunting feats, and very early mummification
To proponents of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, this may be old news, but this paper is hot off the press. And if true, itās a big deal. So, hereā¦
Sep 20
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James Fleischmann
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š§ Ancient Beat #166: Heidelbergensis family outtings, new structures near Gƶbeklitepe, and the oldest burial (maybe)
At SayburƧ, in southeastern Turkeyās TaÅ Tepeler region near Gƶbeklitepe, more than 50 Neolithic buildings dating to ~12,600 years ago have been foundā¦
Sep 13
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James Fleischmann
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š§ Ancient Beat #165: Gene pools, early plant processing, and hominins in Britain
At Dzudzuana Cave in Georgiaās Caucasus foothills, researchers identified traces of indigotin, a blue dye compound derived from woad (Isatis tinctoriaā¦
Sep 6
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James Fleischmann
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