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A new investigation conducted on DNA samples collected from Ötzi, a Neolithic Tyrolean iceman, reveals that he was the first known human to carry Lyme disease. A team of experts managed to sequence man's DNA, and made a host of interesting discoveries.
This particular fossil is one of the best-studied in ... |
1 March 2012
09:53 GMT |
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The Black Sea, located in Eastern Europe, south of Russia and north of Turkey, was thought to hold some of the answers researchers studying the flood myths that occured in most civilizations were looking for. Now, new data gathered from the delta of the Danube River, which pours itself into the Black Sea, shows that ... |
23 January 2009
10:19 GMT |
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It's now official – tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest diseases on Earth and one that has "coexisted" with humans for the better part of the last 9,000 years. Digs at Alit-Yam, off the coast of Egypt, revealed skeletal remains of a mother and her baby. Their bones exhibited markings similar to those le... |
15 October 2008
06:45 GMT |
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On the European plains, mysterious giant stones are found, forming alleys, circles or giant tables called "dolmens". They are the first monuments built by the mankind. A granite forest of dolmens and menhirs covers the Menec Field, near Carnac (French Brittany). In total, there are about 1,169 stones, with an average... |
31 March 2008
16:46 GMT |
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The Neolithic (New Stone Age) was a period in the technological development of Homo sapiens that started at the end of the Ice Age, 10,000 years ago, and ended around the Mediterranean Sea and other areas about 5,500 years ago, when the Bronze Age started.It was the period when first human settlements appeared. Peopl... |
25 March 2008
12:27 GMT |
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On the southern part of the French Brittany, near the town of Carnac (Karnag) and the village of Locmariaquer, very close to the Gulf of Morbihan, the most expensive Neolithic (New Stone Age) menhirs in the world are to be found. "Menhir" comes from the Celtic words "maen" (stone) and "hir" (long). These construction... |
10 March 2008
09:48 GMT |
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Stonehenge represents one of the most beautiful prehistoric places worldwide, located on the plain of Salisbury, about 130 km (80 mi) off London. Why was it raised there? The assembly was not formed just of the megaliths we see today, but it also comprised a circular fortification and an odd ring made of filled holes... |
15 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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They may have lived during the "New Stone Age" (Neolithic), but according to European figurines which are 7,500 years old, women liked to look sexy even back then. Recent digging at the site of a settlement of Vinca culture, Europe's biggest known Neolithic civilization, on Plocnik (southern Serbia), uncovered a... |
13 November 2007
06:12 GMT |
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Surely, the first pottery product was not the work of a sole person but the result of experience accumulated over generations, after countless trials, failures and discoveries. The pottery appeared during the Neolithic ("The last stone age"). Till then, the pots were made of stone and wood. Ceramic appeared 8,000 yea... |
22 March 2007
11:56 GMT |
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In the 1960s, archaeologists found the remains of 14 people at Wayland's Smithy, near Uffington White Horse, Oxfordshire. The bones were dated employing the latest technique at between 3590 - 3560 BC, and many clues made experts imagine that the people may have been killed in a Neolithic ("The Last Stone") Age ... |
13 March 2007
08:33 GMT |
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