Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Please note that this article includes images of human remains. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth.

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Sapiens

MARCH 5, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ When skeletal remains are found, there are often questions over their precise relationship to other archaeological remains at the same site—such as stone and bone tools, animal remains, and other finds.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

Two projects from Asia include the discovery of a Tang shipwreck, which takes you to an exhibit at the Singapore Museum , and a Story Map follows the early thirteenth-century travels of Yelu Chucai and Wugusun Zhongduan, who travel from north China to Central Asia after the Mongol empire's first conquests under Chinggis Khan.

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Sapiens

MARCH 26, 2025

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. AI imagery has already been used to illustrate popular articles, such as covering scientific discoveries about Neanderthals. It was employed to animate the Mesolithic period (from about 9,000 to 4,300 years ago) in a museum.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

ENTERING THE FRAY I agreed to discuss archaeology with pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on the mega-popular but controversial podcast the Joe Rogan Experience. But reaching those outside my echo chamber demands more than my archaeological expertise. I’m distinguishing archaeology from mythology. Many people buy it.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ In the early 2000s, we started to look again at supposed Altar Stone fragments in museum collections. But without directly sampling the Altar Stone, how could we be sure that the museum fragments were genuine?

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Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

There is very little archaeological evidence of a highly developed Bronze Age civilization in the Baltic region during the time that would fit his story. Mosaic from the Bardo National Museum in Tunis. This article Was the “Odyssey” originally set in the Baltic? Credit : Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0

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