PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY

Homo Erectus vs. Saber Tooth: A Eurasia Archaeology Site Reveals What Early Humans Faced Orozmani, a significant new archaeological site in the Caucasus near Dmanisi, depicts the dispersal of Homo erectus out of Africa and the people it encountered along the way.  In the summer of 2021, development on a new "early human" site continued apace in a lush river valley in the Caucasus. The findings from Orozmani, Georgia, first discovered two years ago, confirm the theory that Homo erectus was the first hominin to reach Eurasia — and that it was not the only hominin in town. The early Pleistocene site of Orozmani, located on the banks of a tributary of the Mashavera River, is 120 kilometers from Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, and 20 kilometers from Dmanisi, home of the earliest known hominins from Africa, Homo erectus, who arrived there around 1.8 million years ago. The saga of Orozmani began in 2019 when the first survey test pit yielded early Pleistocene saber tooth tiger Homot...

  The museum pays homage to the forefather of Indian history Robert Bruce Foote, a pioneer of both south Indian geology and Indian prehistory, has a new museum in Ballari, Karnataka, dedicated to his legacy. Robert Bruce Foote unearthed the first Palaeolithic stone tool—a hand axe—in Pallavaram, near Chennai, in 1863, marking a watershed moment in Indian archaeology. Notwithstanding, in 1884, the geologist discovered the Belum caves in Andhra Pradesh, the Indian subcontinent's second largest cave system. Foote amassed a large collection of relics during his tenure, based on his 40 years of geological and archaeological excavations in western and southern India. And now, in Ballari, Karnataka, a museum devoted to his many findings has opened. The Robert Bruce Foote Sanganakallu Archaeological Museum is not only a monument to the geologist's many accomplishments, but it also examines the historical significance of Ballari. For example, in the 1970s, the faculty of Karnatak Univer...

  INTRODUCTION Because sociologists are interested in the impact of society on human behavior, it's crucial to understand how they see individual-society ties. This kind of anxiety is similar to what happens when a young person commits suicide and some individuals infer that "society is to blame." In other words, society had an impact on this individual's actions. But, exactly, what is society? Furthermore, the concept of culture together with that of society, is one of the most widely used notions in sociology. When we use the term culture in ordinary daily conversation, we often think of culture as equivalent to the 'higher things of the mind' -art, literature, music and painting. As sociologists use it, the concept includes such activities, but also far more. Culture has been seen as the ways of life of the members of a society, or of groups within a society. It concludes how t...

 In an ancient Roman villa, archaeologists discovered unusual evidence of migrant constructions. Archaeologists excavating a Roman villa complex have unearthed indications of dwellings built by migrant settlers after the Roman empire fell apart. The Institute of Archaeology at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyski University in Warsaw and the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb excavated the site. The researchers were investigating a rural villa complex on the Croatian island of Rab that dates from the first to third centuries AD when they discovered indications of structures built by migratory settlers from the old Roman province of Dalmatia. The island was a prominent harbor during the Roman era, located on a key trading route for items like as exquisite glassware, high-quality terra sigillata vessels, wine, olive oil, and fish. “It came out that the region of the settlement we researched was also occupied later after the fall of the Western Roman Empire,” stated Prof. Fabian Welc of Cardinal ...

The Mongolian Empire's Capital Was An 'Implanted' City, According to Archaeological Mapping A team of international archaeologists has completed a detailed map of Karakorum, the 13th-century capital of the Mongolian Empire. Their findings, which were published on Thursday in the journal Antiquity, indicated that the settlement was far larger than previously thought and was "implanted" on the Mongolian steppe. The team used a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (or SQUID) to survey over 1,140 acres using advanced geophysics. The SQUID measures topographical features on the surface as well as magnetic fields below ground. Data, field surveys, aerial pictures, and historical records were all used to create the map. The findings are a "deep re-evaluation of this ancient metropolis, which underlines its remarkable place in Mongolian and Eurasian history," according to Jan Bemmann, the study's lead author. Mongolian Empire's From 1220 to 1267 C...

Will the newly named Homo bodoensis assist in resolving the "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution? If you're familiar with human evolution, you've probably come across something called the "muddle in the middle" by paleoanthropologists. If you're not familiar with the muddle, it refers to an era in the Middle Pleistocene when man's evolution was poorly known. Between 774,000 and 129,000 years ago, the Middle Pleistocene/Chibanian saw the rise of our own species (Homo sapiens) in Africa and our closest cousins, the Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) in Europe. The researchers Mirjana Roksandic, Predrag Radovi, and their team from the University of Winnipeg decided to take matters into their own hands and create a new taxon dubbed Homo bodoensis in the hopes of addressing the current foggy state of Chibanian hominin taxonomy. Our taxonomy has a flaw Homo heidelbergensis and Homo rhodesiensis are the two most common human species found in Africa a...