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• Jenaer Erklärung. Das Konzept der Rasse ist das Ergebnis von Rassismus und nicht dessen Voraussetzung. - https://www.uni-jena.de/unijenamedia/Universit%C3%A4t/Abteilung+Hochschulkommunikation/Presse/Jenaer+Erkl%C3%A4rung/Jenaer_Erklaerung.pdf

• Forscher stellen klar: Es gibt keine menschlichen Rassen. Deutschlandfunk (11.9.2019). - https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/jenaer-erklaerung-forscher-stellen-klar-es-gibt-keine.2850.de.html
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Zerstörer von Mosul gefasst

Dirty ISIS

Police in Mosul captured the terrorist who destroyed some of the archeological statues back in 2014. He was taken down in [...]

• Der Pont des Trous in Tournai - eine Petition . Archaeologik (13.1.2014). - https://archaeologik.blogspot.com/2014/01/der-pont-des-trous-in-tournai-eine.html

Seit Anfang August und vorerst bis Ende dieser Woche laufen die Ausgrabungen im sog. Ackerbürgerhaus in Bärnau. Sie sind einerseits Teil einer Baumaßnahme, andererseits aber auch ein wesentlicher Bestandteil eines neuen bayerisch-böhmischen Projektes zur Siedlungslandschaft an der Grenze.

Das Ackerbürgerhaus in Bärnau - aktueller Grabungsort der AMaNz Bamberg (Foto: R. Schreg, 2019)

• Ackerbürgerhaus eine Zeitkapsel. Onetz (23.8.2019). - [...]

War was not an activity exclusive to males in the Viking world. A new study conducted by researchers at Stockholm and Uppsala Universities shows that women could be found in the higher ranks at the battlefield. Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, who led the study, explains: “What we have studied was not a Valkyrie from the sagas but a real life military leader, that happens to be a woman“.

The study was conducted on one of the most iconic graves from the Viking Age. It holds the remains of a [...]

Neanderthal bones from an excavation in Belgium have yielded evidence of intentional butchering. The findings, from the Goyet caves near Namur, are the first evidence of cannibalism among Neanderthals north of the Alps. The skeletal remains were radiocarbon-dated to an age of around 40,500 to 45,500 years. This group of late Neanderthals also used the bones of their dead as tools, which were used to shape other tools of stone.

Professors Hervé Bocherens and Johannes Krause of Tübingen’s [...]

Archaeologists working in Trondheim in Norway are amazed by the discovery of a human skeleton in the bottom of an abandoned castle well. The skeleton provides evidence that confirms dramatic historical events mentioned in the Sagas.

The location and contents of the well are mentioned in Sverre’s Saga, a chronicle of one of the kings of Norway, and one of very few historical manuscripts describing events in the Norwegian Viking age and medieval period.

Scholars have questioned the [...]

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The impressive statues of ancient Mesopotamian rulers bear witness to the wealth of Bronze Age Akkadian and Sumerian city-states more than four thousand years ago. But they are made of black diorite and gabbro stone not found in the region of today’s Iraq and northeastern Syria. Where did it come from? The blocks of stone must have been transported along ancient roads from distant trading partners to the Bronze Age cities of Mesopotamia.

A team of researchers from the University of [...]

The Middle East is called the “Cradle of Civilization” because it is where our hunter-gatherer ancestors first established sedentary farming communities. Recently, the traditional dating of humans’ first agricultural attempt was shaken up by the discovery of the earliest-known example of plant cultivation in the Levant, 11,000 years earlier than previously accepted.

The team of archaeologists, botanists, and ecologists from Bar-Ilan University, Haifa University, Tel Aviv University, and [...]

A research team successfully identified ancient barley and wheat residues in grave goods and on teeth from two Neolithic cemeteries in Central Sudan and Nubia, showing that humans in Africa were already exploited domestic cereals 7,000 years ago and thus five hundred years earlier than previously known.

The results of the analyses were recently published in the open access journal PLOS ONE.

Barley and wheat crops
Dr. Welmoed Out from Kiel University said, “With our results we can verify [...]

The discovery of two teeth in Lunadong, a cave site located in Guangxi (southern China), lends weight to the possibility that the exodus of modern humans from Africa may have been earlier than 60,000 years ago, as traditionally thought.

Christopher Bae, a palaeoanthropologist at UH Mānoa, and Wei Wang of the Guangxi Museum of Nationalities in Nanning, China, have been leading a team of researchers at the Lunadong cave site.

A small clue
Found in stratified deposits dating between 70,000 [...]

• Bronze statuette from the 6th century BCE discovered on St. Cyricus Island (details)
• 'Lovers of Modena,' buried with hands intertwined, revealed to be men (details)
• Electrician finds a 4,500-year-old dagger at a burial cave in Israel (details)
• Native American ruins found in the path of a highway project in Colorado  [...]

• New study explains how one well-preserved Dead Sea Scroll outlasted all the others (details)
• Six-headed burial in Scotland may shed light on medieval clan warfare (details)
• Hohokam skeleton found below golf course in southern Arizona (details)
• New Denisovan finger bone data suggests closer relationship to modern humans  [...]

• Unusual prehistoric monument and skeleton excavated in central France (details)
• Four dumped ancient skulls could reveal violent Inca Empire (details)
• Ancient Persian post office unearthed in Turkey (details)
• Marine archaeologists explore sunken 19th century shipwreck (details)

• Mural depicting a humanlike toad discovered in Peru (details)
• Boys’ skeletons with artificially-shaped skulls found in Croatia (details)
• Submerged boat building site reveals skills used 2,000 years earlier than expected (details)
• Altar in Atorath appears to reference an ancient biblical war (details)
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• Preserving the Alamo from rising groundwater in its soil (details)
• Inscription from Paphos shows ancient city states in Cyprus mixed local innovation with Greek and other influences (details)
• Wooden chest from Pompeii reveals magician’s toolkit of lucky charms (details)
• Iceland excavations find new buildings at large [...]