Ancient DNA sheds light on adaptation of early Europeans at the dawn of the agricultural revolution
Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of ...
Was Agriculture the Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race?
This is traditionally told as a straightforward story of human progress. After humans made the switch, population growth ...
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Scientists use ancient DNA to shed light on adaptation of early Europeans
The team grouped the samples into four time periods: Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Historical. This approach allowed ...
Discovery of ancient doughnut shaped tools sheds light on early wheel invention
The discovery has been published in the recent study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Talia Yashuv and Leore Grosman of ...
Archaeologists Discover Mysterious 12,000-Year-Old Stones That Could Be the World’s Oldest Wheel Technology
Early human cultures likely used stones as spindle whorls to spin fibers into yarn. A collection of perforated pebbles discovered at an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, marking a ...
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These Mysterious 12,000-Year-Old Pebbles May Be Early Evidence of Wheel-Like Tools, Archaeologists Say
Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest ...
Greek Reporter5d
12,000-Year-Old Stones May Finally Reveal the Origins of the Wheel
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered 12,000-year-old round stones with holes, potentially revealing the wheel's origins.
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12,000-year-old stones could be ancient tools leading to wheel technology
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a collection of 12,000-year-old perforated stones that might represent one of ...
12,000-year-old spindle whorls discovered in Israel suggest early wheel-like technology
The stones studied by the team predate the cart wheels of the Bronze Age by thousands of years, highlighting a key milestone ...
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These 12,000-year-old Natufian artifacts may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.
Unique Stone Age Ceremonial Site With 'Extremely Unusual' Remains Found
Researchers believe the site was used as a ritual gathering place during the Neolithic period thousands of years ago.