The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released 20 pages of training materials concerning the collection, processing, and analysis of biological evidence following fatal aviation accidents. The…
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Larry W. Bryant was a UFO researcher, writer, and government transparency advocate who pursued federal records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). His work…
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KENT, OHIO—According to a Science News report, Metin Eren of Kent State University and his colleagues reviewed evidence collected at all 15 sites in North America where Clovis stone tools have been found with the remains of mammoths, mastodons, or gomphotheres. “Archaeologists routinely assume these localities represent evidence that Clovis people hunted these multi-ton animals,…
DNA from a 5,000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were genetically unrelated, pointing to a major migration after a devastating crisis. The shift coincided with new social traditions and the disappearance of the communities that built Europe's giant stone monuments.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—According to a Phys.org report, E. Grace Veatch of the Smithsonian Institution and her colleagues have reevaluated the idea that Homo floresiensis, a small-brained hominin that stood about 3.5 feet tall, hunted dwarf elephants and controlled fire. First, the researchers examined fresh tooth marks left on the bones of a goat consumed by an…
Scythian gold jewelry and artifacts AUSTIN, TEXAS—According to a Live Science report, DNA samples taken from 85 Scythians who lived in central Asia during the Iron Age, between about 900 and 200 B.C., were analyzed by Ayshin Ghalichi of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Ainash Childebayeva of the University of Texas at Austin,…
Inscription from Acmonia that mentions a torch-bearing statue BANAZ, TURKEY— La Brújula Verde reports that nine inscriptions have been discovered in western Turkey at the site of the ancient Phrygian city of Acmonia. One of the inscriptions says that Demades, son of Dionysogenes, commissioned a torch-bearing statue, or lampadephoros. Demades was a priest who was…
Claims that Neanderthal men "preferred" Homo sapiens women may make for catchy headlines, but the underlying research does not actually show prehistoric romance. The genetic evidence only points to an uneven pattern of DNA inheritance, which could have been shaped by biology, migration, or social organization. Archaeological evidence suggests Neanderthal groups may have followed traditions…
BERGEN, NORWAY—According to a statement released by the University of Bergen, fragments of the 4,000-year-old skull of a young child have been discovered in the Skipshelleren rock shelter, which is located in an inner fjord on Norway’s west coast. “The find offers rare and important insight into the first agricultural population in Norway, and we…
WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that remnants of a fortified city inhabited in the fourth century A.D. have been uncovered at the Ain El-Sabil site in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis. Hisham El Leithy of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said that the well-planned city was laid out on a grid that created open squares and public…
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND—A geophysical survey of Machrie Moor, which is located on Scotland’s Isle of Arran, has detected a possible prehistoric timber circle, Live Science reports. Researchers were testing their equipment on the peat-covered moor, known for its six ceremonial circles dated to between 3500 and 1500 B.C., when they detected anomalies beneath the surface of…
PAVLODAR, KAZAKHSTAN—Researchers from Margulan University found a large medieval structure while surveying an area in northern Kazakhstan known as the Zhantai tract with lidar and ground-penetrating radar, according to a Qazinform News Agency report. Excavations at the site uncovered fragments of burnt bricks of the type that were used during the so-called Golden Horde period…
