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Scandinavians are descended from Stone Age immigrants

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today's Scandinavians are not descended from the people who came to Scandinavia at the conclusion of the last ice age but, apparently, from a population that arrived later, concurrently with the introduction ...


Theory: Stone Age People had Sophisticated Navigation Networks

Theory: Stone Age People had Sophisticated Navigation Networks

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (16) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new theory based on studies of locations of large landmarks in Britain, such as stone structures, hill forts and earthworks, suggests they were part of a grid used for navigation around ...


Study finds human population expanded during late Stone Age

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Genetic evidence is revealing that human populations began to expand in size in Africa during the Late Stone Age approximately 40,000 years ago. A research team led by Michael F. Hammer (Arizona Research Laboratory's Division ...


Ivory sculpture in Germany could be world's oldest

Ivory sculpture in Germany could be world's oldest

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit. This figurine, ...


Passage Grave 'Nordenhoj'

Passage graves from an astronomical perspective

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Passage graves are mysterious barrows from the Stone Age. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicates that the Stone Age graves' orientation in the landscape could ...