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Stone Tools in China: A 70,000–100,000-Year-Old Shift
6+ hour, 34+ min ago (504+ words) A 70,000–100,000-year-old site in China’s Lower Yangtze region yielded 3,596 stone artifacts. Their size and manufacture point to a change in toolmaking, but not to a known species or a settled explanation. Stone tools in China’s Lower Yangtze region point to…...
Neptune’s Tiny Moons May Be Wreckage Left by Triton’s Capture
8+ hour, 48+ min ago (378+ words) The small moons inside Neptune’s rings may be the surviving debris of a much larger moon system destroyed when Triton was captured billions of years ago. Neptune’s smallest moons look like minor members of the solar system. They are difficult…...
Brittany’s Long Barrows May Hide Human-Shaped Stones
11+ hour, 49+ min ago (421+ words) Electrical surveys at a Neolithic cemetery in Brittany have found strong signs of buried stone clusters inside two huge barrows. Only excavation can show whether the mounds conceal rare human-shaped monuments. TRED30 and TRED31 are elongated earthen barrows between 50 and 80 metres long....
27 Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune Still Remember the Solar System’s Birth
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (1203+ words) Twenty-seven faint objects beyond Neptune are giving astronomers a rare look at the planet-building material that survived when the outer solar system stopped growing. The outer solar system is not empty. Beyond Neptune, in the cold region known as the…...
Mesen: What a Ramesses II Inscription Reveals
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (1007+ words) What if a city that appears in the records of ancient Egypt has been sitting in plain sight, hidden beneath later roads, barracks and stonework? The find does not provide a complete map of a lost city. It does something…...
How Archaeologists Date Stone Circles
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (555+ words) A stone can be millions of years older than the monument built from it. Measuring when its minerals formed therefore cannot, on its own, reveal when people dragged it into place. To date a stone circle, archaeologists usually reconstruct the…...
Why Archaeologists Leave Some Discoveries Unexcavated — Curiosmos
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (551+ words) Finding an ancient structure does not always mean that archaeologists should uncover all of it immediately. In some cases, the most responsible decision is to leave part of a site in the ground. Soil can protect fragile walls, organic material…...
How Satellite Megaconstellations Are Changing the Night Sky
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (637+ words) Satellite constellations can leave bright trails across telescope images. Here is what that means for astronomy and the night sky. Satellites are changing the night sky in a way that has little to do with the old glow of city…...
Ancient Egyptian Paint Contained More Than Animal Glue, Study Finds — Curiosmos
2+ week, 1+ day ago (559+ words) Ancient Egyptian artists were working with a much wider range of materials than the usual picture of "paint and glue" suggests. A new analysis of 28 microscopic samples from 14 painted objects found evidence for glues made from several animals, along with…...
A Viking Woman’s Brooches Preserved Fragments of Her 1,300-Year-Old Clothing — Curiosmos
2+ week, 2+ day ago (653+ words) Fragments of clothing have survived inside an eighth-century Viking woman’s grave in western Denmark, giving archaeologists a rare chance to study what she wore. The pieces were found attached to two concave "scoop" brooches from a burial at Skonager, near…...