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Deep within the marshes of the Włodawa Forests in eastern Poland, archaeologists are studying an early medieval stronghold hidden under trees and wetlands. The site lies near Kaplonosy Kolonia in Wyryki commune, Włodawa County. Remote sensing surveys carried out in 2016 first revealed faint outlines of ramparts beneath the forest canopy. LiDAR models and aerial […]

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Most people living outside Africa carry small traces of Neanderthal DNA. These inherited fragments appear across many human chromosomes. One part of the genome stands apart. The human X chromosome contains long regions where Neanderthal ancestry almost never appears. Geneticists have debated this pattern for more than two decades. Earlier explanations focused on biology. Scienti...

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Archaeologists have been working for months in the historic center of Borken, where a new health center and Caritas building are planned in the Brinkerhof quarter. Before construction begins, teams from the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe and a private excavation firm examined the ground. What they found shows how densely this part of town was built and […]

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Archaeologists and bioarchaeologists have reconstructed three thousand years of diet and economy in Kuyavia, north-central Poland, tracing how communities adapted between about 4100 and 1230 BCE. The project examined 84 individuals from the Middle Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age. Researchers directly radiocarbon-dated each person and measured stable carbon and nitrogen isotop...

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More than 60,000 years ago, groups of Homo sapiens in southern Africa carved patterns into ostrich eggshells. Archaeologists have recovered hundreds of these fragments from sites linked to the Howiesons Poort phase of the late Middle Stone Age. Key finds come from Diepkloof and Klipdrift in South Africa and from Apollo 11 in Namibia. The […]

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