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🧐 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

🧐 Ancient Beat #146: Timber circles, early transportation tech, and 40,000-year-old boats
Ancient Beat just turned 3. Boatbuilding just turned 40,000.
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #145: Firekeepers, fortresses, and the beginning of language
Archaeological excavations at Jebel Faya in the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, have uncovered Middle Paleolithic stone tools dating back…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #144: Abstract thought, Indo-European languages, and the origin of money
Recent DNA analyses have pinpointed the origins of the Indo-European language family to the Caucasus Lower Volga region in present-day Russia, around…
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James Fleischmann

January 2025

🧐 Ancient Beat #143: Mythological dispersion, poison arrows, and the start of the Iron Age
Recent analyses of charcoal and pottery from the Sivagalai burial site in Tamil Nadu, southern India, suggest that the Iron Age in this region began…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #142: Stone faces, hominin expansion, and the height of luxury
Archaeologists in Pompeii have unearthed an exceptionally well-preserved private bathhouse, believed to be the largest of its kind found in the city…
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James Fleischmann
🧐 Ancient Beat #141: Matrilineal Celts, solar compasses, and hidden Inca tunnels
Archaeologists have uncovered a Chinkana (meaning "labyrinth") tunnel system extending over 1.1 miles beneath Cusco, Peru. This subterranean network…
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James Fleischmann
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