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June 2025

🧐 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 revealed…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 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 proteins…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #153: Early seafaring, Neanderthal fingerprints, and the splitting of (interesting) hairs
At the Abrigo de San Lázaro site near Segovia, Spain, archaeologists uncovered a granite stone with a red ochre dot reinforcing the image of a human…
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James Fleischmann

April 2025

🧐 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 4,200…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 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 points…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 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 a…
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James Fleischmann

March 2025

🧐 Ancient Beat #149: Metallurgy, language, and psychoactive blue lotus
Excavations at a 7,000-year-old site in southeastern Turkey suggest metallurgy may have originated earlier and more independently than previously…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #148: Forts, carvings, and Noah's Ark?
Archaeologists excavating at the Coto Correa site in Marbella, Spain, have uncovered a gabbro stone block featuring carved markings that may date back…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #147: Bones, stones, and treasure
Archaeologists have unearthed a small, intact pottery vessel in the Karnak temple complex in Egypt, dating back approximately 2,600 years to the onset…
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James Fleischmann

February 2025

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