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July 2025

šŸ§ Ancient Beat #159: Folklore, bluestones, and Neanderthal foodies
Neanderthals living 50,000ā€“60,000 years ago in two nearby caves in northern Israelā€”Amud and Kebaraā€”exhibited distinct butchery styles, despite using theā€¦
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James Fleischmann
šŸ§ Ancient Beat #158: Polish pyramids, Celtic oppida, and a really big feasts
Excavations at the Early Neolithic site of Asiab in Iranā€™s Zagros Mountains uncovered a large circular structureā€”about 66 ft acrossā€”containing theā€¦
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James Fleischmann
šŸ§ Ancient Beat #157: Savvy Neanderthals, pyramid builders, and sloth bones shaking up the timeline again
At the Neumark-Nord 2 site in central Germany, Neanderthals around 125,000 years ago systematically processed bones to extract grease, marking theā€¦
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James Fleischmann
šŸ§ Ancient Beat #156: A matrilineal ƇatalhƶyĆ¼k, unexpected mounds, and hominins doing hominin things
At the Neolithic site of ƇatalhƶyĆ¼k in present-day Turkey, recent ancient DNA evidence has revealed that households were matrilineal and passed downā€¦
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James Fleischmann

June 2025

šŸ§ Ancient Beat #155: Boomerangs, lost cities, and standing stones
A previously unknown temple complex named Palaspata, located roughly 130 miles south of the main Tiwanaku site near Lake Titicaca, has been revealedā€¦
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James Fleischmann
šŸ§ Ancient Beat #154: Denisovan faces, boat burials, and the pre-Clovis peopling of the Americas
A nearly complete skull unearthed in 1933 near Harbin, China, and hidden until 2018, dates to at least 146,000 years ago. Analysis of ancient proteinsā€¦
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James Fleischmann
šŸ§ Ancient Beat #153: Early seafaring, Neanderthal fingerprints, and the splitting of (interesting) hairs
At the Abrigo de San LĆ”zaro site near Segovia, Spain, archaeologists uncovered a granite stone with a red ochre dot reinforcing the image of a humanā€¦
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James Fleischmann

April 2025

šŸ§ Ancient Beat #152: Denisovans, inequality, and the Antikythera Mechanism
A fossilized jawbone, dubbed Penghu 1, was retrieved from the seabed off Taiwan's coast. Protein analysis of the jaw's tooth enamel revealed over 4,200ā€¦
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James Fleischmann
šŸ§ Ancient Beat #151: Ivory tools, painted altars, and daring sea journeys
At the Medzhibozh A site in Ukraine, archaeologists uncovered 24 mammoth ivory fragments, 11 of which show deliberate modifications, including pointsā€¦
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James Fleischmann
šŸ§ Ancient Beat #150: Female scribes, artistic kiddos, and newly discovered pyramids
Archaeologists working near the ancient fortress of Hyrcania in the Judean Desert have uncovered a 2,200-year-old stepped pyramid structure atop aā€¦
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James Fleischmann

March 2025

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