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All archaeogenetics and no archaeology makes people go mad. So let's spice this a bit with this absolutely enticing video of a conferen...

Quickies Although the paper claims this site as the signature of arrival of our species to the South Cone (southern region of South Amer...

This site of Gobero (Niger) was news in the archaeology and anthropology circles a few years ago and today I stumbled on this quite nice vi...

This entry should be a "quickie" because I wouldn't even know where to begin in order to analyze this comprehensive synthesi...

Quickies Leopard cat (CC: F. Spangenberg - Der Irbis ) It's hard to say that cats are domestic at all, tamed is probably a bet...

Quickies I'm going in this and upcoming short entries through my backlog. You are warned. New archaeology from Monte Verde (Ch...

Quickies Flake type tools dated to approx. 118,000 years ago have been found in Sulawesi (Indonesia). They imply that some species of h...

Tonight I got a most undesirable alert: the controversial archaeological site of Iruña-Veleia, has been again excavated with heavy machiner...

Quickies Quite worth mentioning: Wu Liu et al., The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China . Nature 2015. Pay per view...

Quickies According to this new study of Thai sites, the SE Asian Bronze Age, whose dating has been controversial, began probably in th...

A new study has been published that reviews all the data on the Southern Iberian Solutrean, which (excepted probably Asturias) is a distinc...

Marnie's blog points today to a very interesting review of the Early Neolithic Aegean. It is from a few years ago and hence totally ob...

Quantity over quality series. Sylvain Soriano et al. The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Sto...

A large human-made monolith has been discovered underwater in the Pantellaria shoal, submerged since the end of the Ice Age. E. Lo...

Found at Ama Ata : There is another version with Italian subtitles .  See also: Category Iruña-Veleia in this blog SOS Iruña-Ve...

Informative compilation of dates for West and South Asian Neolithic sites. Kavita Kangal et al., The Near-Eastern Roots of the Neolithi...

Old map of Avesbury and the nearby hillfort Recent field work at the town of Amesbury , specifically in Blink Meadow, has resulted in i...

As you may know, in the continent we don't even bother anymore about copper or basic metallurgy to define the Chalcolithic (Copper and ...

There was a time when "Neolithic" meant age of the polished stone. Not anymore thankfully. Otherwise we would have to write here ...

The Perdigões Research Program blog mentions a new study where the structure is dissected through time, revealing it as a meeting area (w...