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Get email notification for articles from Ruth Schuster Follow Apr. 7, 2021 6:05 PM Modern humanity began to evolve in Africa at least 300,000 years ago and began to exit the continent for Eurasia at least 200,000 years ago. The earliest Homo sapiens migrants out of Africa went extinct. All non-Africans descend from modern human migrants around 50,000 years ago – from some of them, that is. Now two new genetic studies have identified three early humans in Bulgaria, whose descendants seem to l...

Burnt hazelnut shell sheds new light on Stewartry residents of 10,000 years ago The artefact was found at Threave Garden and Estate by volunteers taking part in the Galloway Glens’ Can You Dig It scheme Updated Can You Dig It volunteers enjoying their work at Threave. Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you...

SIGNS of life dating back to the Mesolithic period have been found on a country estate in Dumfries and Galloway.

AMATEUR archaeologists have discovered how ancient Scots had a penchant for hazelnuts while shining a light on 10,000 years of history in one part…

A tiny burnt hazelnut shell found at the National Trust for Scotland’s Threave Garden and Estate has been dated to between 8,547 and 8,312 BC.

Signs of life dating back to the Mesolithic period have been found on a country estate in Dumfries and Galloway. A tiny burnt hazelnut shell found by volunteers on an archaeological dig at the National Trust for Scotland’s Threave Garden and Estate has been dated to between 8,547 and 8,312 BC. The Galloway Glens community archaeology project Can You Dig It found the shell during a dig in 2019 at Little Wood Hill, which dates back to the Iron Age. Since then, some of the carbonised material re...

Researchers in western Australia have been working to date all ancient cave art  They are using a technique that involves radiocarbon dating mud wasp nests The nests overhang the ancient pieces of art painted to the sides of caves The 2m drawing of a kangaroo was dated to between 17,500 and 17,100 years old It sits on the Unghango clan estate in Balanggarra country, Western Australia 

French archaeologists get near-perfect notes from a conch shell last used by hunter-gatherers.

The top artistic quality of Berber carpets has already been a source of inspiration to artists such as Paul Klee and Le Corbusier. This book reveals a new slant on the origins of Berber carpets and on the sources and meanings of its motifs. Genuine Berber carpets are not the successors of well known Oriental carpets dating from the Islamic era but similarities in knotting techniques and certain motifs point to common roots harking back to the Neolithic period in Asia Minor. Because textiles wea...

The origins of money Ribs (Spangenbarren). Credit: M.H.G. Kuijpers From cowrie shells to native resources and animals, currency in some shape or form has long been a part of human history.  A currency of sorts was first thought to emerge as trade and exchange, with trade being tracked through the archaeological record, starting in the Upper Palaeolithic, when groups of hunters traded the best flint weapons and tools. Throughout the years, various objects were used as units of value until near...