Adam Brumm, Melandri Vlok and colleagues report arecoline in hunter-forager teeth from South Sulawesi and unusual grooves from sucking whole Areca seeds. The earlier individual dates 25,000–16,000 years ago — well before farming and before the later betel-quid recipe with slaked lime.
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Esta semana
7–13 de set. de 2026
- The ConversationIce Age teeth in Sulawesi push betel-nut use back as far as 25,000 years (abre em uma nova aba)
- Archaeology MagazineRoman mosaic and Eros head uncovered in the basilica at Pompeiopolis, Kastamonu (abre em uma nova aba)
Geometric mosaic covering more than 1,100 sq ft in the basilica nave at Pompeiopolis (Paphlagonia) is dated to the 4th century CE. An Eros head from a side chamber belongs to the 2nd-century basilica phase. Minister Mehmet Ersoy links the later floor to the city's Christianisation.
- ScienceDailyDevil’s Arrows stones sourced to Brimham Rocks, 18 km from Britain’s tallest stone row (abre em uma nova aba)
Tape-sampled zircon fingerprints match the Boroughbridge standing stones to Brimham Rocks, not the closer Plumpton Rocks. Anthony Clarke and Jim Leary argue the ~25-tonne blocks were moved deliberately around 2000 BCE; glacial transport is ruled out.
- Archaeology Magazine4,600-year-old game board and engraved comb recovered at Shahr-i-Sokhta (abre em uma nova aba)
Rouhollah Shirazi’s team at the Burnt City in Sistan and Baluchestan recovered a Bronze Age board game, a carved bone comb, textiles, leather, and household craft debris. Two construction phases in the northeast sector mix domestic activity with stoneworking.
31 de ago. – 6 de set. de 2026
2026-W36 · 4 notícias
- ScienceDaily80,000-year-old microlithic points at Obi-Rakhmat compared with Mandrin arrowheads (abre em uma nova aba)
Impact-traced triangular microliths from the oldest layers at Obi-Rakhmat, Uzbekistan, are argued to be light projectile tips. Hugues Plisson and Andrei Krivoshapkin compare them with ~54,000-year-old points at Grotte Mandrin, suggesting a Central Asian chapter in Homo sapiens weapon design.
- Archaeology MagazineUniversity of Udine maps Nimrud’s 800-acre lower town beyond the acropolis (abre em uma nova aba)
Daniele Morandi Bonacossi and Francesca Simi’s NiLTAP project combined Corona imagery, drone terrain models, walking survey, and geophysics around Kalhu. Streets, neighbourhoods, kilns, and large complexes appear in the walled lower city that housed most of the Assyrian capital’s population.
- Ministry of Culture and Tourism / Anatolian ArchaeologyNeolithic malachite and copper workshop exposed at Çayönü Tepesi, Ergani (abre em uma nova aba)
A roughly 5 m² paved workshop with postholes, raw and worked malachite, and copper beads, dated 6900-6800 BCE, was announced from the western trenches at Çayönü. Director Savaş Sarıaltun's team places it two millennia after the site's first copper and malachite use around 9100 BCE.
- NatureNature lidar survey estimates tens of thousands of earthworks in southwest Amazonia (abre em uma nova aba)
Airborne laser scanning over 4,497 km² recorded 396 previously unpublished geometric earthworks. Pärssinen and colleagues model 24,000-30,000 geoglyphs across the Aquiry landscape. Fazenda Colorada in Acre remains the excavated type site for that map.
24–30 de ago. de 2026
2026-W35 · 2 notícias
- ScienceDailyDahshur princesses’ skeletons show habitual archery, not only ceremonial weapons (abre em uma nova aba)
Zeinab Hashesh and colleagues reassessed Middle Kingdom royal mummies from Dahshur, including daughters of Amenemhat II. Robust upper-limb attachments and healed trauma align with bows, daggers, and maces in the tombs — evidence they used the weapons, not only displayed them.
- Anadolu AgencyAbout 25 Epipaleolithic turtle figurines recovered at Gedikkaya Cave, Bilecik (abre em uma nova aba)
Deniz Sarı's team recovered about 25 limestone turtle figurines, some clay-coated, around circular stone rings at Gedikkaya Cave (İn Cave) near İnhisar. Associated layers date to 14,500-11,200 BCE. The director cautions it is too early to name a mountain cult.
Semanas anteriores
17–23 de ago. de 20262026-W34 · 2 notícias
- ScienceDailyPine tar, beeswax, and pollen reconstruct repairs on the Ilovik–Paržine 1 wreck (abre em uma nova aba)
Coatings on the ~2,200-year-old Roman Republican ship off Croatia are mostly pine pitch; one sample mixes tar and beeswax (zopissa). Armelle Charrié’s team used trapped pollen to argue four or five coating batches, including repairs away from a probable Brindisi build.
- ScienceDailyTheban Tomb 209 reuse shows ordered stacking, not a disordered mummy dump (abre em uma nova aba)
Jared Carballo-Pérez and Miguel Ángel Molinero Polo recorded 16 mummified people, a mummified dog, and a disturbed deposit of at least four more in TT 209’s side chamber (25th Dynasty–Ptolemaic). Later burials were stacked with changing arm positions and jars, adapted around earlier coffins.
27 de jul. – 2 de ago. de 20262026-W31 · 10 notícias
- Archaeology MagazineTiny Paleolithic bird carvings unearthed in Germany (abre em uma nova aba)
Two mammoth-ivory bird figurines less than an inch long, about 40,000 years old, were found in the same layer at Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany. Nicholas Conard of Tübingen notes they show early artists could carve delicate motifs in miniature, possibly by the same hand.
- Archaeology MagazineLatin graffiti recorded in Spain’s Cova Dones cave sanctuary (abre em uma nova aba)
About 120 Latin inscriptions from the first and second centuries CE have been recorded in Cova Dones, southeastern Spain, interpreted as a Roman cult sanctuary used especially by women. Women’s names, Domina dedications, spindle whorls, and other offerings appear with the graffiti.
- Archaeology MagazineHundreds of geoglyphs mapped in the Amazon rainforest (abre em uma nova aba)
A lidar survey covering more than 1,700 square miles of Amazon forest has revealed hundreds of previously unmapped earthworks and geometric geoglyphs. The finds add to growing evidence that pre-Columbian Amazonian landscapes were densely modified, not empty wilderness.
- Archaeology MagazineHippocampus mosaic uncovered in western Turkey (abre em uma nova aba)
Excavation led by Murat Cekilmez of Adnan Menderes University has brought to light a mosaic featuring a hippocampus in western Turkey. The find adds a marine mythological floor to the region’s Roman and late antique decorative repertoire.
- Archaeology MagazineDigital reconstruction reveals early Maya calendrical writing at Calakmul (abre em uma nova aba)
INAH researchers digitally reconstructed a charcoal mural in an arched vault at Calakmul showing Juun Ajaw with a day marker from the 260-day ritual calendar. Style and dating suggest the structure may belong to about 400–200 BCE, earlier than some prior estimates.
- ScienceDailyStudy: household inequality narrowed as Mohenjo-daro grew (abre em uma nova aba)
University of York researchers argue that as Mohenjo-daro matured, house-size gaps shrank rather than widened, with investment in shared drainage and streets instead of royal monuments. The Antiquity study challenges the idea that early urban growth must concentrate wealth.
- Archaeology MagazineCopper bells uncovered at Yampara site in Bolivia (abre em uma nova aba)
Six pyramid-shaped copper bells (c. 1300–1536 CE) were found in a circular stone qollqa at Yoroma in Bolivia’s Oroncota Valley. Different clappers of copper, shell, or stone would have produced distinct tones, and the cache sat with maize imagery and other offerings.
- Archaeology MagazineLake Turkana footprints reevaluated as tall Paranthropus boisei group (abre em uma nova aba)
A new study of 21 fossil footprints from the ancient Lake Turkana shoreline (about 1.43 million years ago) attributes them to Paranthropus boisei individuals roughly six feet tall. Researchers interpret the trackway as a party of about eight males moving together.
- Archaeology MagazineEarly Roman fortification traced at Vindonissa, Switzerland (abre em uma nova aba)
Excavation at Vindonissa in northern Switzerland has traced an early Roman fortification phase at the legionary base. The work clarifies how the site’s defensive layout developed before later stone phases of the well-known castrum.
- Archaeology NewsPompeii’s restored House with Bakery ceiling brings Dionysus and Ariadne fresco back to view (abre em uma nova aba)
Conservation work at Pompeii’s House with Bakery has restored a painted ceiling that returns a Dionysus and Ariadne scene to public view. The project highlights how ceiling painting, not only walls, shaped elite domestic display in the buried city.
20–26 de jul. de 20262026-W30 · 1 notícia
- UNESCOLalibela at the heart of cultural diplomacy and World Heritage conservation (abre em uma nova aba)
Ambassadors, UN representatives and development partners visited Ethiopia’s Rock-Hewn Churches, reaffirming commitment to protecting UNESCO World Heritage sites.
13–19 de jul. de 20262026-W29 · 2 notícias
- Archaeology MagazineStudy tracks origins of 19th-century Africans left on Atlantic island (abre em uma nova aba)
An international team analyzed teeth from 152 formerly enslaved Africans buried on St. Helena, tracing origins and Atlantic slave-trade routes through isotope and DNA evidence.
- Archaeology MagazineBarracks foundation found in Nova Scotia fort (abre em uma nova aba)
Archaeologists in Nova Scotia uncovered foundations of an 18th-century barracks at Fort Anne, adding structure to the fort’s poorly documented military layout.
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