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3,000-Year-Old Pottery Reveals Trade Networks in Australia Long Before Colonization

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3,000-Year-Old Pottery Reveals Trade Networks in Australia Long Before Colonization Archaeologists excavating on Jiigurru/Lizard Island off the Queensland coast have unearthed the oldest pottery ever found in Australia. The find is highly significant because it challenges the idea that Aboriginal Australian communities were unaware of pottery manufacture before European settlement. The ceramics were unearthed during an … Read more

DNA of 10,000-Year-Old Luzio Unravels the Mystery of the Sambaqui Builders’ Disappearance

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DNA of 10,000-Year-Old Luzio Unravels the Mystery of the Sambaqui Builders’ Disappearance A new DNA study reveals that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton found in São Paulo state (Brazil), was a descendant of the ancestral population that settled the Americas at least 16,000 years ago and gave rise to all present-day Indigenous peoples, such as … Read more

Bronze Age Artifacts Found at Estonia’s Asva Mound

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Bronze Age Artifacts Found at Estonia’s Asva Mound Recent excavations at the Asva mound in Saaremaa have uncovered a wide range of artifacts, including possibly 3,000-year-old barley grains, Estonia’s oldest eating utensils and the oldest horseshoes. All of these indicate that Asva was inhabited during both the Bronze Age and the subsequent Viking Age of … Read more