Is Finland Really the Happiest Country? New Global Flourishing Study Find Indonesians Are Most Fulfilled
A new measure of global mental wellbeing was recently released through a series of papers from Harvard University and…
Category: Human Sciences
Our Ancestors Show How to Possibly Create a More Egalitarian Society: Raise More Athletes
The gender division of labor among hunter-gatherers has been a topic of heated debate for decades, as much at…
Trade on the Medieval Silk Road Was so Rich, it Sustained High Mountain Cities, New Discovery Finds
A pair of lost cities in the highlands of Uzbekistan recently found by archaeologists using lidar demonstrate that the…
Circular Stone Plaza Moves Up Start of Stone Age Construction in the Andes on Par with Stonehenge
In the Cajamarca Basin of Northern Peru, at a place called Callacpuma, archeologists have uncovered a real treasure—a circular…
Our Brain Registers What We Expect to See When Watching Routine Actions, ‘What we would do next, becomes what our brain sees’
Advancements in the study of neuroscience have shown that there are several kinds of circumstances where what we think…
4,200-Year-Old Ceramic Storm Drains in Ancient Chinese Town Are the Oldest of Their Kind
Story at a glance… The world’s oldest ceramic drain pipe system has been identified and described in China. The…
Much Like Stonehenge, Solstice Sunlight Would Have Danced on the Walls of This Neolithic Spanish Tomb
Story at a glance… An incredible stone tomb has been found at a famous Neolithic site in Spain. A…
4 Years After Discovery, the First Viking Ship Burial Found in Over 100 Years Reveals its Lost Secrets
When news broke in 2018 that another Viking-Age ship burial had been found on the shores of the Oslo…
‘Princely’ Tomb of a Hunnic Warrior and his Horse Unearthed in Romania
Workers building a new highway in Romania were forced to call archaeologists when it became clear they were digging…
3,400 Year-Old Bronze Age City Emerges from a Drought Stricken Reservoir in Iraq
PICTURED: An aerial view of Kemune Palace from the west, near the Tigris River in Iraq. PC: Universities of…
Amazing Discovery in Southern Amazon Reveals Details of Urban-Agrarian Society as Never Before
If one searches “Casarabe Culture” in a search engine, they won’t find much. Maybe they will see a Wikipedia…
2000 Year Old Tomb Confirmed as Belonging to Celebrated Han Emperor
PICTURED: Pottery figurines lie on the floor of the mausoleum of Emperor Wen of Han in Xi’an, Shaanxi province.…
From Turkey to Korea, People Share a Common Language Invented to Describe Millet Farming
PICTURED: A woman harvests millet in a field in Zaozhuang city, East China’s Shandong province, on Sept 7, 2016.…
Largest Ever Anglo-Saxon Gold Coin Hoard Found in Norfolk
PICTURED: The Norfolk Hoard, one of the most important ever found. PC: British Museum. Released. A hoard of 131…
Raise a Horn of Mead to the Vikings’ Remarkable Voyage to North America Precisely 1,000 Years Ago—New Research Finds
PICTURED: The reconstructed archaeological site at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, also known by the mythical name of “Vinland,” home…
A Genetic Mapping of Polynesia Tracks the Settlement of Oceania in Exquisite Detail
PICTURED: The Moai heads of Rapa Nui, or Easter island. CC 4.0. Story at a glance… A new genetic…
“Dazzling Aten” — a ‘Lost Golden City’ has been Uncovered by Egyptologists
PICTURED: The walls of the lost city of Aten. Photo credit: Zahi Hawass. Released via Facebook. It’s the stuff…
How Far Down the Rabbit Hole Must One Go to find Prehistoric Artifacts? Not Far Say Wales Archaeologists
PICTURED: The burrow where the artifacts were discovered. Photo credit: Skokholm Blog. Released. Alone on the windswept island Skokholm,…
Like Jefferson, Scientists Help Demonstrate Pygmies’ Natural Rights to Ancestral Lands Given Over to Logging
DJA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Cameroon. April 1st 2019. PICTURED: A chief of the Baka pygmies looks pensive in a forest…
Stonehenge Was Likely Built From Other Cannibalized Stone Circles in Wales
Questions have always circled around Stonehenge, and now a breakthrough hypothesis suggests that the world’s most famous Neolithic monument…