Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ruins hint at what was lost. Now a new wave of research is sharpening the ...
The Sayburç relief is the oldest narrative “scene” that has been discovered, giving researchers more insight into neolithic society. Photograph by B. Köşker. A 10,000-year-old slab discovered in ...
Ancient DNA from Stone Age burials in Turkey has finally put to rest a decades-long debate about whether the 9,000-year-old proto-city of Çatalhöyük was a matriarchal society. The research finally ...
A team of archaeologists worked to unearth the ancient settlement, which was buried under thousands of years worth of peat. The University of Manchester Metal is a staple in modern human existence.
Hundreds of mysterious engraved “sun stones” unearthed in Denmark may have been ceremonially buried because a volcanic eruption in about 2900 BC made the sun disappear. A total of 614 stone plaques ...
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- A NOTE ON THE TEXT -- EDITIONS OF ANCIENT SOCIETY -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I. ETHNICAL PERIODS -- CHAPTER 2. ARTS OF SUBSISTENCE -- CHAPTER 3. RATIO OF HUMAN ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An ancient society near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in modern-day Bolivia was once one of the continent’s most powerful civilizations. Known as Tiwanaku, the ancient ...
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