Arqueología Mesoamericana with Juan Bendfeldt

21/01/2023

SCIENTISTS have discovered the fossils of a “hobbit” that lived 700,000 years ago on an Indonesian island. The homo floresienis were ancient humans that lived between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago.

29/12/2022

When you see a beautiful crystal how do you feel? Perhaps the perfection of the diamond or the vivid colours of the different gems are your thing? The fact is that people have been fascinated by crystals ever since they had first discovered them.

26/12/2022

23/12/2022

Ancient Maya infrastructure was something to behold.

13/11/2022

An overlooked artifact from Tel Lachish is a lice comb bearing an inscription that is the oldest known sentence written using the alphabet.

06/06/2022

Sophisticated stargazers recorded their knowledge in buildings, books—and still-living traditions

07/03/2022

15 million Aztecs were probably killed by a form of salmonella the Spanish brought from Europe.

28/02/2022

A re-creation of a 3,000-year-old horseman’s trousers helped scientists unravel its complex origins.

26/02/2022

A cave in France contains man’s earliest-known structures that had to be built by Neanderthals who were believed to be incapable of such things.

11/02/2022

Archaeological finds in an ancient French rock-shelter suggest migrations to the continent started long before Neandertals died out.

29/01/2022

This changes human history as we know it.

26/01/2022

The stone camel sculptures of Saudi Arabia, seven in total and originally uncovered back in 2018, far predate more famous monuments.

20/01/2022

Researchers have just discovered the remains of a hybrid human.

03/01/2022

Neandertals’ campfires, hunting and other activities altered the land over 2,000 years, making them the first known hominids to impact their environs.

23/12/2021

Examinations of human, Neanderthal, and Denisovan DNA reveal that our species were quite similar — and indeed that we bred with each other.

22/12/2021

A 66-million-year-old fossil of a complete baby dinosaur in its egg, apparently just a few days before it would hatch.

21/12/2021

Archaeologists suggest this may have been the Americas' "oldest hotel."

20/12/2021

An ancient anthropogenic footprint, brought about by hunting, tool production, fire use, and other behaviors, has been discovered in Germany.

18/12/2021

Scientists use new methods to discover what's inside drug containers used by ancient Mayan people.

07/12/2021

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Researchers have published their studies on a perfectly preserved ancient skull from China that belonged to man from a new human species - the Dragon Man.

06/12/2021

El homo bodoensis vivió en África durante el Pleistoceno medio, hace aproximadamente medio millón de años, según los descubrimientos.

04/12/2021

For decades, researchers have proposed that climate change and human-caused environmental destruction led to demographic collapse on Easter Island. That's probably false, according to new research.

22/11/2021

A reservoir in the ancient city of Tikal contains traces of zeolite, a volcanic mineral still used for filtration today

19/11/2021

Scientists discover what our human ancestors were making inside the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa 1.8 million years ago.

12/11/2021

"Scientists discovered what appeared to be 176,000-year-old man-made structures. That’s 150,000 years earlier than any that have been discovered anywhere before."

A cave in France contains man’s earliest-known structures that had to be built by Neanderthals who were believed to be incapable of such things.

30/10/2021

A brilliant new account upends bedrock assumptions about 30,000 years of change.

26/10/2021

An Olmec site forged a building plan more than 3,000 years ago for widespread Olmec and Maya ritual centers across Mexico’s Gulf Coast.

24/09/2021

David Bustos heard about the “ghost tracks” when he first came to White Sands National Park in New Mexico to work as a wildlife scientist in 2005.

10/08/2021

Neanderthals may have been closer to our species of prehistoric modern human than previously believed after cave paintings found in Spain proved they had a fondness for creating art, one of the authors of a new scientific report said on Sunday.

01/08/2021