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🧐 Ancient Beat #209: Denisovans, lightning strikes, and Machu Picchu’s unknown infrastructure
Bianfu Cave in Yunnan Province, southwestern China, has produced seven Denisovan fossils—two skull fragments, four teeth, and part of a forearm…
Sep 19
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #208: Big rocks, psychoactive nuts, and the peopling of Ireland
Rock art identified in eight caves in southwest Ireland may push known human activity on the island back to at least 15,000 years ago—about 5,000 years…
Sep 12
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #207: Rituals, hoards, and hips
A new analysis of the pelvis of Homo floresiensis, the diminutive human relative discovered on Flores, Indonesia, suggests the species walked more like…
Sep 5
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James Fleischmann
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August 2026
🧐 Ancient Beat #206: Cryptic markings, astronomical sanctuaries, and lots of statues
Eleven engraved obsidian arrowheads dating to roughly 9,000–8,000 years ago have been identified at Tepecik-Çiftlik in central Anatolia, Turkey…
Aug 29
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #205: Symbolic art, cow-bears, and really big Denisovans
Two fossilized Denisovan leg bones dredged decades ago from the Penghu Channel in the Taiwan Strait suggest some members of this archaic human group…
Aug 22
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #204: Star gazing, hunting strategies, and stones shaped like people
Ancient DNA suggests Ice Age hunters deliberately targeted female woolly mammoths rather than killing males and females equally. Genetic analysis…
Aug 8
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #203: Big footprints, tiny bird carvings, and Mesolithic sailors
Twenty-one hominin footprints preserved at GaJi10 in northern Kenya’s Koobi Fora Formation capture at least eight individuals crossing a muddy lakeshore…
Aug 1
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James Fleischmann
July 2026
🧐 Ancient Beat #202: Fish farming, female warriors, and visual syntax in cave art
Analysis of 500 painted and engraved motifs in nine caves across Spain’s Basque Country suggests that Paleolithic artists followed a shared visual…
Jul 25
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #201: Signatures, metropolises, and ceremonial landscapes
The first detailed ground survey of El Yesal, deep within the Balam Kú Biosphere Reserve in Campeche, Mexico, has mapped one of the largest Maya cities…
Jul 18
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #200: Ancient fossil collectors, shared Neanderthal/sapiens cultures, and the fall of the megalith builders
Finds from Üçağızlı II Cave on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast suggest remarkable cultural continuity between Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who arrived…
Jul 11
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #199: Circles, monoliths, and rainforests
The old “humans evolved on the savanna” story is getting more complicated. Evidence now suggests early Homo sapiens may have used, and perhaps lived in…
Jul 4
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James Fleischmann
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June 2026
🧐 Ancient Beat #198: Numbers, planning, and fire usage
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…
Jun 13
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James Fleischmann
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