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more about #archaeology Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: Now we know why there are no sheep on their farms... more » Trai_Dep: On the bright side, it kept the Maori children from sitting on the couch playing PlayStation 3, eating corn dogs all day and becoming fat and stupid..... more » CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Im sure they helped out in Lord of the Rings...but not like this!!!! more » Pope John Peeps II: Haha. That's hilarious. Somehow saying "the myth of giant birds attacking people may have started when this giant bird attacked people" seems hilariou... more » The_Sporean_Bob: Most old beast legends have at least some bit of truth to them. Fossils, ancient extinct animals, all start real and then become legend... more » Allen_Richards: So you're sayin' Lord of the Rings got that shit right? Call me the Monkey's Uncle... more » syafiqjabar of Mars: Coming to Syfy in 5,4,3... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: They occupied the cave for thousands of years? I've heard my Georgia relatives say "I's a born her, I's a gonna dies here," but this is ridiculous! more » Jeriba: Thus proving the prehistoric origin of those annoying hemp friendship bracelets. more » Alexis: But the Bible told me that God created the first snappy human ensemble 3,000 years ago! I learned that in Science. more » nagumi: There are two kinds of cannibalism: opportunistic and ritualistic. The first involves, say, the Donner Party, starving to death, resorting to cannibal... more » Stueymon: just us brits being pragmatic. We ate the dead as a handy source of food when times were tough. We did it back then, we did it in the war and we'll do... more » gorehound: no big thing here.what you think primitive man ate when there was no meat to be found ???? hhhmmm mmm good it is time for a people steak. more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Note to self: RSVP "No" to McMillan party. more » Rasselas: Cannibalism runs through our modern obsessions like a dirty thread: vampires, zombies, enviro-political apocalypse reducing humanity to subsistence pr... more » FiorenzaDampt: Note to self: please wait until fully awake to read io9 headlines = "Were Prehistoric Britons Cannabis?" (And now I'm having 456 flashbacks.) more » NathanSt: No need to worry Graeme, it was probably a commoner and barely qualifies as human. more » transbastard: I thought cannibalism is pretty well established for Stone Age humans. Are they gonna tag every modern nation in turn after finding evidence on their ... more » NotMandatory: At this period in prehistory, it seems much more likely to have been related to mortuary ritual in my opinion. Prehistoric people from the Mesolithic ... more » WestMantooth: Don't knock it til you tried it. The French taste like duck. more » -
#monstersamongus
500 Years Ago, A Giant Eagle In New Zealand Was Possibly Eating Children
In a paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, scientists make the case that an extinct giant predatory eagle might have been eating children. The eagle was not a scavenger, as some believed, but a deadly hunter. More » -
#evolution
34,000-Year-Old Twine Woven by Ancient Humans Discovered
Humans who lived 34 thousand years ago in a cave in the Republic of Georgia were making clothing from dyed, woven fibers. Scientists who discovered the fibers say they are the oldest known examples of human-made cloth and rope.
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#prehistoryhorror
Were Prehistoric Britons Cannibals?
British scientists think that they may have uncovered an explanation behind unusual marks on a 9000-year-old human bone recently excavated in Devon... but that the explanation may involve their ancestors having been prehistoric cannibals. More » -
#evolution
Neanderthals Far Lonelier Than Previously Believed
For thousands of years, two intelligent hominid species shared the European continent: early humans and Neanderthals. About 30,000 years ago, Neanderthals went extinct. Now one study suggests a possible reason: The Neanderthal population was very small, and very interrelated. More » -
#evolution
A New Look at the Controversial "Hobbit" Fossil Skeleton
Here you can see the skeleton of a Homo floresiensis, one of the so-called Hobbits who lived about 20,000 years ago in Indonesia. New evidence shows it probably is a new species. More » -
#piratearchaeology
Blackbeard the Pirate's Sword and Booty Discovered
Blackbeard's beloved ship Queen Anne's Revenge sank off the coast of North Carolina in the 18th Century, and now researchers have recovered a sword handle and some gold stashed aboard. More » -
#madarchaeology
Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
The oldest remains of a person accused of being a vampire have been found outside Venice, buried in a mass grave of plague victims. More » -
