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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
🧐 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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🧐 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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