Arrasados...
https://www.publico.pt/2017/10/09/local/noticia/beja-ponte-romana-e-sitios-arqueologicos-foram-destruidos-para-plantar-amendoal-1787981
Todas as espectacularidades da Internet, estranhas ou não, exceptuando a pornografia em geral (pun)
domingo, 16 de junho de 2019
Vestígios romanos...
quinta-feira, 11 de abril de 2019
Nova espécie humana?
https://news.sky.com/story/bones-from-callao-cave-in-philippines-reveal-new-human-species-11690500
Citando:
"He said Homo luzonensis lived in eastern Asia at around the same time as not only our species but other members of the Homo branch, including Neanderthals, their little-understood Siberian cousins the Denisovans, and the "hobbits" of the island of Flores in Indonesia."
terça-feira, 5 de março de 2019
A grande morte?
E o motivo:
https://zap.aeiou.pt/o-que-matou-a-vida-marinha-243505
Citando:
"Agora, os cientistas mostraram o que erradicou a vida marinha: o aumento das temperaturas acelerou o metabolismo das criaturas, aumentando as suas necessidades de oxigénio, ao mesmo tempo que esgotou o oxigénio dos oceanos. Como resultados, os animais literalmente sufocaram.
O problema é que, atualmente, estamos a vivenciar um aquecimento atmosférico muito semelhante – e muito mais rápido."
domingo, 9 de dezembro de 2018
Túmulo com 5000 anos e bactérias da peste?
https://zap.aeiou.pt/230005-230005
Citando:
"A bactéria foi encontrada quando os investigadores estavam a analisar bancos de dados de ADN antigo para casos nos quais as infeções poderiam ter matado vítimas pré-históricas, de acordo com o estudo publicado a 6 de dezembro na revista Cell."
terça-feira, 27 de novembro de 2018
O unicórnio Siberiano?
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/27/europe/siberian-unicorn-humans-scli-intl/index.html
Citando:
"A study published Monday in the journalNature Ecology & Evolution says that the shaggy creature once roamed among humans, surviving in Eastern Europe and Western Asia until at least 39,000 years ago, around the same time of Neanderthals and early modern humans."
terça-feira, 6 de novembro de 2018
Construção das pirâmides
... no Egipto:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/giza-pyramids-ramp-scli-intl/index.html
Citando:
"Archeologists have spent centuries wondering how the towering pyramids of Giza were constructed thousands of years ago. Now, the discovery of a sophisticated ramp system has put them one step closer to solving the mystery.
The remains of the 4,500-year-old ramp was found at an alabaster quarry -- of the same period -- in an Egyptian desert by a team of researchers from the University of Liverpool, UK, and Cairo's French Institute for Oriental Archaeology"
quarta-feira, 24 de outubro de 2018
Navio com 2400 anos, intacto?
https://tvi24.iol.pt/internacional/embarcacao/descoberto-o-navio-intacto-mais-antigo-do-mundo-no-mar-negro
Citando:
"Esta descoberta está integrada no Projeto de Arqueologia Marítima do Mar Negro – o Black Sea MAP -, em que uma equipa internacional de arqueólogos marítimos, cientistas e inspetores marinhos explorou as profundezas do Mar Negro para obter uma maior compreensão do impacto da pré-história marítima. Para além do navio com 2400 anos, foram ainda descobertas mais de 60 embarcações no fundo do mar, incluindo navios romanos.
Durante o projeto de três anos, os arqueólogos usaram sistemas de câmaras remotas especializadas em águas profundas para mapear o fundo do mar."
sexta-feira, 21 de setembro de 2018
Fóssil Animal recordista?
Mais antigo:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/09/21/oldest-known-animal-fossil-dickinsonia-revealed-scientists/1377436002/
Citando:
"The Dickinsonia, an animal with an oval body that could grow to more than 4 feet in length, lived 558 million years ago, according to research published Friday in the journal Science. The now-extinct animal probably lived in warm shallow seas possibly alongside other squishy Ediacaran critters, National Geographic reports.
For more than 75 years, scientists have been fighting over what a Dickinsonia really was, said Australian National University associate professor Jochen Brocks, who was involved in the research. Was it an amoeba or an animal? Evolution gone wrong? Or maybe a plant?"
domingo, 26 de agosto de 2018
Pompeiices
sexta-feira, 17 de agosto de 2018
Queijo egípcio
3200 anos apenas:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/science/oldest-cheese-ever-egypt-tomb.html
Citando:
"“The archaeologists suspected it was food, according to the conservation method and the position of the finding inside the tomb, but we discovered it was cheese after the first tests,” Enrico Greco, the lead author of the paper and a research assistant at Peking University in Beijing, said in an email.
The tomb in which the cheese was found belonged to Ptahmes, a high-ranking Egyptian official in the 13th century B.C. and the former mayor of the ancient city of Memphis, according to the paper. His burial site was first unearthed in 1885, but was lost to shifting sands until its rediscovery in 2010."
quinta-feira, 19 de julho de 2018
Dietas antigas rastreadas em fósseis...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44862778
Citando:
"In the new study, published in the journalProceedings of the Royal Society of London B , researchers analysed 100 archaeological samples from across England, as well as 14 samples from living dental patients and individuals who have recently died.
Dietary proteins were found in about one third of the analysed samples.
Proteins found in ancient dental plaque have already revealed that humans were drinking milk as far back as 6,500 BC."
O sarcófago preto foi aberto
quarta-feira, 30 de maio de 2018
Família do réptil
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/30/worlds-oldest-lizard-fossil-forces-rethink-of-reptile-family-tree
Citando:
"they probably originated just before the “Great Dying” – a catastrophic mass extinction event 252m years ago when more than 90% of marine creature and 70% of land vertebrates died. That, Bernardi said, overturns current theories that they arose after the disaster, and reveals that many different species appeared in the wake of the catastrophe due to factors such as a lack of competitors. “It is like the other side of extinctions,” he said. “Squamates, for example, were actually there before the extinction, they went through [it] in some way, and they took the opportunities that opened up just after the extinction,” he said."
Atacado por pedra do Vesúvio
sexta-feira, 25 de maio de 2018
sexta-feira, 27 de abril de 2018
676 caveiras na Cidade do México...
.... And counting:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40473547
Citando:
"
Its base has yet to be uncovered, and it is thought many more skulls will be found.
They are believed to form part of the Huey Tzompantli, a skull rack some 60 metres (200ft) in diameter which stood on the corner of the chapel of Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice.
Archaeologists have no doubt it is one of the racks, or tzompantli, described by soldier Andres de Tapia, who accompanied Hernan Cortes in the 1521 conquest of Mexico.
Cortes landed at Veracruz, on Mexico's east coast, in 1519. Two years later, allied with other native forces, Cortes' men captured the Aztec capital."
Maior sacrifício humano (crianças) descoberto
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-43928277
Citando:
"The final tally announced this week of 140 children show that the victims were aged between five and 14 - though most were between eight and 12 years old, National Geographic reports.
The children are known to be victims of human sacrifice because of cut marks to the bones, including the sternum, the bone in the centre of the chest. Many ribs were also damaged - which may indicate the heart was removed."
(...)
"Carbon dating of textiles discovered at the site suggest the incident happened around 1400-1450 AD.
The Chimú, who worshipped a moon deity, were conquered by the Inca civilisation just a few decades later. About 50 years after that, the Spanish arrived in South America and conquered the Inca empire in turn."