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Prehistoric artists were better at portraying the walk of four-legged animals in their art than modern man, according to new research published December 5 in the open access journal PLoS ONE by Gabor Horvath and colleagues from Eotvos University (Budapest), Hungary.
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December 12, 2012 8:57 PM
Thank you for this article.
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December 13, 2012 1:48 AM
You're welcome Meryl Jaffe :-)
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December 22, 2012 6:13 PM
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Excavations at Çatalhöyük unearth funerary gift mirrors, a very rare finding in the ancient settlement. A technique called georadar is being used in the excavations and suggests the city was an egalitarian society
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"Intensive woodworking and tree-felling was a phenomenon that only appeared with the onset of the major changes in human life, including the transition to agriculture and permanent villages," says Dr. Barkai, whose research was published in the journal PLoS One. Prior to the Neolithic period, there is no evidence of tools that were powerful enough to cut and carve wood, let alone fell trees. But new archaeological evidence suggests that as the Neolithic age progressed, sophisticated carpentry developed alongside agriculture. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-08-neolithic-lumberjack.html#jCp
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That seems to have changed sometime after farmers moved into Europe from the Near East, beginning about 8500 years ago during a period known as the European Neolithic. One of the best studied farming cultures is the Linearbandkeramik (LBK), which arose in what is today Hungary about 7500 years ago and spread as far as modern-day Paris within 500 years, after which it appears to have been superseded by other cultures.
Raymond McGee's curator insight,
January 17, 2014 5:04 PM
I found it intresting that certain people were barried with great rituals because of who they were. Social inequality has spread to modern day Paris within 500 years ago, that is a very intresting fact to me. 
Alexis Loftin's curator insight,
February 4, 2014 4:06 PM
This is believed to be a 7,000 year old Farmer man from Austria buried witha stone known as adzes. Which is a know tool of farmers.
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French archaeologists have discovered an extremely rare example of a neolithic "earth mother" figurine on the banks of the river Somme.
Cindy Garcia's curator insight,
October 12, 2013 7:36 AM
The webpage of Archaeology News Network, Writes about a discovery of French archaeologists tumble cross a rare neolithic "earth mother" figurine on the banks of the river Somme.(by Tann,) 
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October 31, 2013 3:42 PM
This 6,000 year old figurine was found by the banks of Somme. The figurine depicts a woman and has taken on the name of "Lady of Villers-Carbonne". Some Neolithic experts guess that it is a figurine of a fertility goddess. The find was rare since most Neolithic findings have been found in Southern Europe while this was discovered in Northern Europe.
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Archaeologists have found cave paintings thought to be Central Europe's oldest such artwork in Baden-Württemberg’s Swabian Alps
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There is now broad agreement on the circumstances of Ötzi’s death. Around 100 experts on mummies from nearly every single continent gathered for the “2nd Bolzano Mummy Congress” held at the European Academy of Bolzano from the 20th to the 22nd October 2011, with the aim of discussing any diseases he might have been suffering from and the events surrounding his death. From the moment of his discovery twenty years ago Ötzi, the 5,000 year old glacier mummy, has been puzzling the scientific research community, though little by little he is also revealing many of his secrets.
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March 7, 2014 11:03 PM
This is a relatively recent article (2011) that provides more current information about the death of "The Ice Man" from a respected journal
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An ancient bone with a projectile point lodged within it appears to up-end - once and for all - a long-held theory of how the Americas were populated.
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Early humans may not have needed to continuously reinvent the proverbial wheel. A newly discovered cache of stone tools representing 11,000 years of human habitation suggests that perhaps human innovations didn't flicker in and out of early human history as once suspected, driven into obscurity by external pressures such as climate change. Instead, researchers suggest, at least some ancient humans apparently managed to pass an innovative type of stone tool down to their descendants.
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Long before the Egyptians began the pyramids, Neolithic man built a vast temple complex at the top of what is now Scotland.
Shannon Bench's curator insight,
October 4, 2013 3:45 PM
Hello world, meet awesome human engineering from the Neolithic period. That's AMAZING! How could a people whose tools at hand, before even having an entire kingdom (like the Egyptians did) to help with labor, build something like a temple in a rigid and cold environment like Scottland?
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Until about 8500 years ago, Europe was populated by nomadic hunter-gatherers who hunted, fished, and ate wild plants. Then, the farming way of life swept into the continent from its origins in the Near East, including modern-day Turkey. Within 3000 years most of the hunter-gatherers had disappeared. Little is known about these early Europeans. But a new genetic analysis of two 8000-year-old skeletons from Spain suggests that they might have been a remarkably cohesive population both genetically and culturally—a conclusion that other researchers find intriguing but possibly premature.
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In this week’s Nature, a group of researchers suggest that we share many social characteristics with humans that lived in the late Pleistocene, and that these ancient humans may have paved the way for us to cooperate with each other.
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Roger Hall was walking his pet at Cannock Wood, in Staffordshire, when he discovered a handful of strange-shaped rocks.
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A new study of prehistoric horse DNA suggests that spotted horses roamed ancient Europe, and that early artists may have been reproducing what they saw rather than creating imaginary creatures.
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The world’s oldest known and best preserved ochre-processing tool kit is now on display at the South African Museum in Cape Town. The set was discovered at Blombos cave in the Southern Cape by a team of Wits University archaeologists in 2008.
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