trade networks

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

Israeli Archaeologists Find Enigmatic 2,500-year-old Burials in the Desert

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Israeli Archaeologists Find Enigmatic 2,500-year-old Burials in the Desert Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a burial site holding dozens of skeletons from 2,500 years ago — possibly the remains of trafficked women — in the heart of the Negev desert in southern Israel. The two elaborate tombs, which together contain at least 50 skeletons, lie … Read more

Ancient Quartz Tools Unearthed in Canada

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Ancient Quartz Tools Unearthed in Canada Archeologists have uncovered a cache of artifacts near Ottawa that could shed new light on trade and communication networks between Indigenous communities thousands of years ago. The discovery last month in Lac Philippe, Que., included about 50 pieces of rare quartz tools, which suggest that Indigenous peoples may have inhabited the … Read more