Welcome to the second edition of Archaeology 2020. Every two months the Archive publishes a new update covering some of the most important archaeological, anthropological and other new discoveries. Enjoy!
Topics:
- 1.5 billion-year-old Earth had water everywhere
- 2,000-Year-Old Leopard Face Painting Reconstructed from Egyptian Sarcophagus
- Homo Erectus used a variety of Stone Tools for Hundreds of Thousands of Years
- First Known Extraterrestrial Protein Possibly Spotted in Meteorite
- Maya Warrior Queen may have Built the Longest ‘White Road’ in the Yucatán
- Researchers find Evidence of a Cosmic Impact that Caused Destruction of one of the World’s Earliest Human Settlements
- Zambia claims Rhodesian Man, the 250,000-year-old Fossilized skull at London’s Natural History Museum
- Student Discovers 5,000-year-old Sword Hidden in Venetian monastery
- Scottish Storms Unearth 1,500-year-old Viking-era Cemetery
- ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’ at the Museum of the Bible are All Forgeries
- Researchers Discover 3,400-year-old Ballcourt in Mexican Highlands
- This Mysterious Ancient Structure Was Made of Mammoth Bones
- First Pocket-sized Artworks from Ice Age
- Fine-tuning Radiocarbon Dating Could ‘Rewrite’ Ancient Events
- Ancestor of All Animals Identified in Australian Fossils
- Neanderthals Ate Sharks and Dolphins
- Ancient Cultic Area for Warrior-god Uncovered in Iraq
- Complexity of the Settlement of Asia by Homo-sapiens
- Three Human-like species Lived Side-by-side in Ancient Africa
- Revolutionary New Method for Dating Pottery
- Crops were cultivated in Regions of the Amazon ‘10,000 Years Ago’
- Ancient Teeth from Peru Hint that now-extinct Monkeys Crossed the Atlantic from Africa
- Israeli Archaeologists Solve Mystery of Prehistoric Stone Balls
- Archaeologists Verify Florida’s Mound Key as Location of Elusive Spanish Fort
- Israeli Archaeologists Find Hidden Pattern at ‘World’s Oldest Temple’ Göbekli Tepe
- Postclassic Period Maya Village Discovered in Mexico