Archeology

Archaeologists have found the tools and remains of a prehistoric workshop in a cave near Cape Town.The workshop would have been used by humans over 100,000 years ago to create the primitive paints used to produce artwork on cave walls. "This discovery represents an important benchmark in the evolution of complex human cognition,"said Professor Christopher Henshilwood.

Within the darkness of Blombos Cave near Cape Town, South Africa, archaeologists have uncovered an assemblage of tools and remains of what appears to be a workshop or work area containing toolkits used by early modern humans.  

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Several 8,000 year-old skulls mounted on stakes have been discovered in central Sweden.The find at the Kanaljorden excavation site is being praised as unique, with nothing like it having ever been found before. "We found two skulls that still had wooden stakes sticking out of them through a whole at the base ofthe skull," said archeologist Fredrik Hallgren.

In total the skulls of 11 individuals have been found at the site. Several human skulls found mounted on wooden stakes have been uncovered from a Stone Age lake bed in central Sweden in what is believed to be the first discovery of its kind anywhere in the world.  

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Satellite images have revealed strange geoglyphs like the Nazca Lines over countries in the Middle East.Believed to date back some 2,000 years, the geoglyphs are in the form of strange wheel-shaped patterns, kite patterns and random lines. "People have probably walked over them, walked past them, for centuries, millennia, without having any clear idea what the shape was," saidProfessor David Kennedy.

Peru’s Nazca Lines, the mysterious geoglyphs etched into the desert centuries ago by indigenous groups, are world famous – and now thousands of similar patterns have been found in the Middle East. Satellite and aerial photography has revealed mysterious stone ‘wheels’ that are more numerous and older than the Nazca Lines in countries such as Syria, Saudi Arabia andJordan.  

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A study of the ruins of Carnuntum in Austria has revealed the remains of a school for gladiators.The fighters would have lived in tiny cells barely large enough to turn around in and would have faught to the death. Excavations are now being planned for the site to recover and learn as much aspossible from it.

The Carnuntum ruins are part of a city of 50,000 people 28 miles (45 kilometers) east of Vienna that flourished about 1,700 years ago, a major military and trade outpost linking the far-flung Roman empire"s Asian boundaries to its central and northern European lands.  

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