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Origins

Prehistoric people, prehistoric world, genetics, science, creatures

Alaskan University Offers the Curious a Chance to Adopt a Mammoth

By CeciliaBogaard - September, 10 2024

Mammoths became extinct on mainland Alaska just under 12,000 years ago. Or at least that’s the current consensus. This timeline supports the argument that the arrival of humans at the end of the last Ice Age, around 14,000 years ago, played a pivotal role in their demise.

Discover the Origins of Your Food

By Ancient Origins - July, 09 2022

We’ve all created associations between certain foods and ingredients with particular places and cultures. But the history of the origin of foods is complicated and ascertained only thanks to serious academic and scientific study. Read on to discover the lesser-known origins of popular foods.

Does Cave Art Reflect the Human Higher Brain Function of Language?

By Ancient Origins - April, 18 2022

A perplexing question that often arises is: why did our ancestors undertake chthonic journeys into the deepest bowels of the earth to express themselves through art against the uneven walls of the darkest caves? Why not paint rock art in more accessible locations?

How Ancients Explained Comets and Meteors

By Ancient Origins - November, 16 2019

To the ancients, the incredible and unfamiliar natural celestial events were interpreted through cultural understandings of the day – which is to say, they were considered divine or damning.

The Astronomical Temples of Loughcrew

By Caleb Strom - May, 14 2019

It is probably not possible to tell when humans first began to wonder about the stars, the sun, and the moon or tried to understand their motion, though there is evidence of a lunar calendar being used by hunter-gatherers during the Upper Paleolithic in Europe around 32,000 BC.

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