Archive: Prehistory

Prehistory (and some history) articles at Leherensuge:

Originally posted at the new blog For what they were we are. This list is maybe incomplete but should serve as quick reference for most of what I posted here on Prehistory and History.

In reverse timestamp order (newest first) within each category.

Historical period

Noain 1521 (the end of Southern Basque freedom)

Origin of Spanish Language around Valpuesta confirmed

Aymeric Picaud on Basques (12th century)

19th century replica iron cargo boat

Orreaga or the evening the Emperor was humiliated 1230th anniversary (Roncevaux battle)

Metal Ages and Protohistory

Boy buried near Stonehenge was from the South

Yet another international linguist takes a stand in favor of Gil in Iruña-Veleia

Reckless destruction at Iruña-Veleia Vasco-Roman site, Images of the destruction at Iruña-Veleia, And more "archaeological" vandalism at Iruña-Veleia, Archaeologist Idoia Filloy against the destruction of Iruña-Veleia

L. Silgo's paper on the Iruña-Veleia findings

Wiki on Iruña-Veleia

Phoenicians don't seem to have practiced ritual infanticide often

The Kafkaesque case of the archaeology of Iruña-Veleia

In search of Tartessos at Doñana marshes

Further voices in favor of the authenticity of Iruña-Veleia's findings

Rare Celtic and Phoenician names add credibility to Iruña-Veleia findings

Bronze Age Greek city surveyed underwater

Major Indian megalithic monument destroyed

Important Bronze Age findings in the Eastern Mediterranean

New exavations at Basque-Roman mines, Visit to Oiasso Basque-Roman mines

Neolithic and Chalcolithic

Hoabinhian Neolithic site (and other Archaeonews)

Neolithic seal found near Izmir, Turkey

Chalcolithic dugout canoe found in Ireland

Copper metallurgy in Serbia 7000 years ago

North Iberian Neolithic seeds

Oldest 'pampooty' shoe found in Armenia

Sardinian Neolithic art in danger

Again on Neolithic and European Y-DNA (largely about archaeology in fact)

Neolithic cave destroyed by landowner in Aragon

The Neolithic transition in Ronda (Andalusia)

Intriguing ring structures being researched in Portugal

Agriculture spread through cultural diffusion in SW USA

Demographics of Central-North European Neolithic

The Demographics of British Neolithic (2)

Gruesome cannibal site of early Neolithic Rhineland

Rapid population increase at the arrival of Neolithic to Britain

New megalithic finding at Devon

Neolithic 'cathedral' at Orkney (and other news from British and Irish Prehistory)

Oldest African pottery found in Mali

Ice-free Arctic 7000 years ago?

Stonehenge redated

Neolithic Iberians failed to rotate crops

Agriculture reached the Basque Country 5000 years ago

How strong was the Neolithic colonization of Europe?

Six meter palisade hid Stonehenge

Battle of Talheim, 5000 BCE 

Stonehenge burials; Stonehenge burials II: contextualizing the end of elite burials

Upper Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic

Several volcanoes may have severely damaged Neanderthals

Hyenas: another European mammal extinct at the end of the Ice Age

Upper Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic vegetation and climate in NW Iberia

More on megafauna and humans: Iberian peninsula

Ekain: rib made into a bird and other findings

Clovis Impact theory rejected, Clovis Impact theory finds new support (just a few days later)

Dog remains from Epipaleolithic Portugal

Cave bears extinct on human and climatic pressure

Utah Mesolithic

Who made the Chatelperronian? And the Uluzzian?

Mammoths died out because of forest expansion

Some curiosities on the MP-UP transition in Europe

More Paleolithic rock art found deep in La Peña de Cándamo (Asturias)

Paleolithic rock-art discovered in Romania

The Eastern Asturian rock-art (e-book)

Upper Paleolithic 'Greeks' built walls against cold

The Neanderthal-Sapiens transition at Cova Gran (Catalonia)

Paleolithic script?

Macrolithic Epipaleolithic in NE Iberia

Paleolithic Europeans did not burn the vegetation as in SE Asia or Australia

Praileaitz will not get enough protection

More Paleolithic rock art found in Central India

Santimamiñe: new data

Bering Strait closure caused the end of the last Ice Age

Lagar Velho kid had modern human teeth

People lived in Norway 10,000 years ago

Human presence in North Scandinavia since 10-11,000 years ago

Younger Dryas began in just few months

Epipaleolithic bow and paddle found in Sweden

Epipaleolithic wooden dock found in Southern England

The oldest map of Western Europe

South Asian microliths 2nd round

Did South Asians invent microliths some 38,000 years ago?

Neanderthal killed by humans?

More evidence for Clovis age meteorite impact

The AMH colonization of Europe

Neanderthals extinct by competition, not climate

How many people lived in Paleolithic Europe?

Paleolithic Chinese ate fish regularly (update mentioning coastal habitat in Eritrea 125,000 years ago)

Most ancient pottery could be Chinese

Magdalenian artifacts found in Scotland

SE Asia before Hoabinhian (just a note)

The rich environment of Southern Iberia in the Ice Age

Paleolithic Americans relied on rabbits, not mammoths

Cereals gathered as early as 23,000 BP in Syria

Ekain 'neocave' inaugurated

14,000 BP remains at Yucatan caves

Tasmanian megafauna extinction man-made

Discovered Upper Egiptian Late Paleolithic rock art

Some good news for Basque Paleolithic art

Praileaitz, Paleolithic art in danger

Sharp warm spikes at the end of the Ice Age

European Upper Paleolithic

Magdalenians did eat sea mammals 

Revision of Aterian, U6 and North African Prehistory in general

Magdalenian and Inuit harpoons

Epipaleolithic remains found offshore of England

European Palaeolithic geography

Aurignacian origins

Clovis not first Americans

Middle and Lower Paleolithic

Late human evolution maps (1.3 Ma to 60 Ka)

Neolithic surgery was prime quality

Homo ergaster had elephant in the menu

Humans in Philippines before 66,000 years ago (what species?)

Atapuerca experts: Neanderthal diverged one million years ago

Origin of Aterian

Was Toba really so bad?

Decorated ostrich egg shells from MSA South Africa

New research may reinforce human continuity through the Toba event in India

Neanderthal teeth found in Poland (toothpick marks)

Homo erectus in Europe even earlier

African-style quartz tools in Crete from 130,000 BP

People ate processed shorgum 100,000 years ago

Human lower jaw from China is 110,000 years old

Research on most recent Neanderthal remains blocked by red tape

Kenyan tool discovery could push Homo age back two million years

Acheulean spread from Africa to Eurasia

Paleolithic tools in Japan from 120,000 years ago

Acheulean much older than though in Europe

Not yet metallurgy but the same concept... 75,000 years ago

Stone blades already 500,000 years ago?

Neanderthal extinction driven by ecology?

African Erectus co-evolved into large brains and wide female pelvises for birthgiving

Ancient major river found in Libyan Desert

Middle Paleolithic remains found at Basque cave

Other

Physical anthropologist claims again that H. floresiensis was cretin H. sapiens

Venneman's exposition of Vasconic substrate in Western Europe

Archaeonews review Aug 2010 (Indian Megalithic ware, bone buttons of Mesoamerica, ancestor stones destroyed in Nigeria, oldest British house)

Archaeology manual

Archaeonews review June 2010 (Neanderthal-Homo divergence surely very old...)

Archaeonews review May 2010 (Otley cairn, coastal migration of Paleo-Indians, Neolithic Omani cemetery, Dilmun mounds will be researched and then destroyed, Tamil Nadu stone circles nearly destroyed...)

New non-destructive C-14 dating method

The strange case of the Glozel findings

Cosmopolitan languages are simpler

New 'consensus' radiocarbon calibration curve

The Hadza at National Geographic

Ancestral communism

Ardipithecus, chimps, bonobos and Christians

Archaeonews review Jun 2009 (oldest Taiwan hearth 20 Ka old, Starcevo culture 100 years older)

Victor's Grauer archaeology of musicCultural complexity generated by mere numbers

A unique human trait: rhythm

Archaeonews review Dec 2008 (Welsh fortress, cremation burials of Istanbul, Neanderthals did not hurl weapons, oldest marihuana stash, Black Sea canoe, gravettian art from Russia)

Natural grammar is SOV

Archaic skulls (just notes)

Paranthropus boisei chose to ignore evolution