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🧐 Ancient Beat #197: Art, bedding, and Stone Henge's Altar Stone
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…
Jun 6
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James Fleischmann
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May 2026
🧐 Ancient Beat #196: The Plain of Jars, feeding rituals, and 280 monumental tombs
Satellite surveys across Sudan’s Atbai Desert identified roughly 280 massive stone burial monuments tied to a long-lost pastoral culture that flourished…
May 23
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #195: Tunnels, tools, and advanced Neanderthal dentistry
A lower molar discovered in Chagryskaya Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains is providing evidence that Neanderthals may have performed a deliberate dental…
May 16
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #194: Artificial islands, rhino-tooth tools, and early pyrotechnology,
Archaeologists working in Arnhem Land, northern Australia, identified evidence for deliberate heat treatment of chert stone that may be the oldest known…
May 9
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #193: Early ship burials, lost sites, and Neanderthal connectivity
A new modeling study of Europe between roughly 60,000 and 35,000 years ago suggests Neanderthals did not disappear solely due to climate change or…
May 2
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James Fleischmann
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April 2026
🧐 Ancient Beat #192: Behavioral modernity, natural selection, and human cooperation
Evidence from sites across Africa, Europe, and Asia is reshaping how archaeologists understand the emergence of complex human behavior. Traditionally…
Apr 25
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #191: Megastructures, water rituals, and rock art
Excavations at Stăuceni–Holm in northeastern Romania uncovered a massive 350 m² (≈3,770 sq ft) structure dating to about 4000 BCE within a…
Apr 18
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #190: Rocks, long-distance trade, and the invention of dice
Analysis of over 600 artifacts from 58 sites across the western United States shows that Indigenous groups were making and using dice-like objects as…
Apr 11
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #189: Alphabets, hidden structures, and canine companionship
Advanced geophysical surveys at the ancient site of Buto in Egypt’s Nile Delta revealed a large buried structure dating to about 600 BCE (around 2,600…
Apr 4
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James Fleischmann
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March 2026
🧐 Ancient Beat #188: Longstanding debates, sacred continuity, and sparkles
Hundreds of Lower Paleolithic hand axes discovered in the Sakhnin Valley in northern Israel, dated to ~500,000 years ago, include a rare subset…
Mar 28
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #187: Hoards, rituals, and bows and arrows
Excavations near Melsonby in North Yorkshire revealed one of Britain’s most significant Iron Age hoards, dating roughly 100 BCE–70 CE. The deposit…
Mar 21
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James Fleischmann
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🧐 Ancient Beat #186: Parrots, megaliths, and board games
A multidisciplinary study traced the origins of colorful parrot feathers found in an elite tomb at Pachacamac on Peru’s central coast, associated with…
Mar 14
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James Fleischmann
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