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Petar PetrovThis has to be my favorite episode of "Fall of Civilizations" thus far. The way Paul Cooper tells this story, the sheer amount of detail in an already very sparse part of history is just astounding. I'm really impressed and highly recommend this to people interested in ancient history.
The massacre at the end and what led to it made me feel quite sad about Carthage. We often forget that civilizations are temporary. So much has been repeated over time when one looks at history. I think nothing that is happening today seems that much different from before.
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reallykindasortaEurope's Late Neanderthals descended from a single population, DNA analysis suggests
Europe's Late Neanderthals descended from a single population, DNA analysis suggests - SLRPNK
> In the study, an international research team led by Professor Cosimo Posth at the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen traced the dramatic genetic history of European Neanderthals. Researchers already had indications that Europe’s widespread earlier Neanderthal populations had largely disappeared. > The new study indicates that one localized group had survived the harsh conditions by retreating to a climate refuge [https://phys.org/news/2024-01-humans-icy-northern-europe-neanderthals.html] some 75,000 years ago in what is now southwestern France—and that the descendants of these survivors spread across Europe after 65,000 years ago. Genetically, almost all Late Neanderthals descended from this one lineage. > Posth and his team also found that these Neanderthals later suffered a sharp decline in population around 45,000 years ago. This fall in numbers [https://phys.org/news/2025-11-mathematical-neanderthal-genetic-dilution.html] was rapid, reaching a minimum around 42,000 years ago—shortly before the Neanderthals became extinct altogether. The study has been published in the journal PNAS [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520565123]. > Genetically, Neanderthals can be clearly distinguished from modern humans, Homo sapiens, who replaced Neanderthals by around 40,000 years ago. “We have evidence that Neanderthals inhabited Europe continuously between 400,000 and 40,000 years ago. However, we have only fragmentary details of their population history,” says Posth. > “So far, we know very little about the evolutionary developments that preceded their extinction.” He and his research team were therefore particularly interested in the Late Neanderthals, who lived between about 60,000 and 40,000 years ago.
Mark A. Rayner“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” –T.S. Eliot
We see you Virgil.
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Ancient DNA reveals a farming shift that pushed a society to the brink
Ancient DNA reveals a farming shift that pushed a society to the brink - SLRPNK
> A new study reveals that farming in Argentina’s Uspallata Valley was adopted by local hunter-gatherers rather than introduced by outside populations. Centuries later, a stressed group of maize-heavy farmers migrated into the region, facing climate instability, disease, and declining numbers. Despite these pressures, there’s no sign of violence—instead, families stayed connected across generations, using kinship networks to survive. The research shows how cooperation, not conflict, helped communities navigate crisis. Study [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10233-z]
125,000-Year-Old Human Settlement Discovered in Arabia
125,000-Year-Old Human Settlement Discovered in Arabia - SLRPNK
Intro: > A newly detailed archaeological record from the United Arab Emirates is reshaping what researchers know about early human settlement in Arabia, showing that people returned to the region again and again over tens of thousands of years, including as far back as about 125,000 years ago. > The study [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70681-z#Abs1], led by K. Bretzke of the University of Tübingen in Germany and published in “Nature Communications,” centers on Buhais Rockshelter in Sharjah. > Researchers found clear evidence of human occupation at roughly 125,000, 59,000, 35,000, and 16,000 years ago. The findings suggest southern Arabia was not as empty during key stretches of prehistory as many scholars had believed.
Pharaonic Glory Returns in Egypt as Ramesses III Gate at Karnak Is Restored
Pharaonic Glory Returns in Egypt as Ramesses III Gate at Karnak Is Restored - SLRPNK
> An Egyptian archaeological mission has completed the restoration and reassembly of a major gate built by KingRamesses III at the Karnak temple complex, bringing renewed attention to one of Egypt’s most important ancient sites. > The project focused on the northern gateway of Ramesses III’s enclosure wall, located in the northwestern sector of Karnak. Work was carried out between 2022 and 2025 by the Franco-Egyptian Center for the Study of Karnak Temples (CFEETK), in cooperation with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and the French National Centre for Scientific Research. > Archaeologists dismantled, conserved, and reassembled the structure using a detailed scientific approach. The lower part of the gate had first been identified in the 19th century, in poor condition and hidden under vegetation. Recent restoration has allowed researchers to recover its original form and better understand its role within the temple complex.
Gran Dolina site at Atapuerca reveals almost exclusive use of local chert (rock) 400,000 years ago
Gran Dolina site at Atapuerca reveals almost exclusive use of local chert (rock) 400,000 years ago - SLRPNK
> A paper published in the journal Quaternary International [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618226001072] reveals a distinctive technological behavior at level TD10.2-BB of Gran Dolina (Atapuerca, Burgos), characterized by the almost exclusive use of local chert and linked to one of the earliest pieces of evidence of communal hunting in the human evolutionary record, dated to around 400,000 years ago. > The research, led by Andion Arteaga Brieba, a researcher at The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), in collaboration with IPHES and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona), focuses on this level of the Atapuerca site, where an intensive occupation associated with bison hunting and processing has been documented. > “Level TD10.2-BB of Gran Dolina represents the earliest evidence of communal hunting in the human evolutionary record. The archaeological assemblage contains the remains of the slaughter and processing of more than 60 bison, documenting an organized hunting activity that required complex strategies and large-scale group coordination,” explains Arteaga-Brieba. > Associated with these faunal remains, the team has analyzed more than 10,000 lithic artifacts, identifying a clear preference for the use of local chert, which accounts for almost 99% of the assemblage. > This behavior has no parallels with other Pleistocene sites in the Sierra de Atapuerca, where a greater diversity of raw materials is typically observed.
N-gated Hacker NewsAh, yes, because nothing screams cutting-edge historical research quite like blaming Pompeii's demise on an ancient 'machine gun' 🌋🔫. Meanwhile, the article's content is stuck behind a digital moat, as if the website knew the truth was too explosive to handle... or maybe just too poorly written to care. 🛡️💻😂
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-pompeii-scars-linked-ancient-machine.html #PompeiiResearch #AncientHistory #DigitalMoat #ExplosiveTruth #PoorlyWritten #HackerNews #ngated
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-pompeii-scars-linked-ancient-machine.html #PompeiiResearch #AncientHistory #DigitalMoat #ExplosiveTruth #PoorlyWritten #HackerNews #ngated
Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun'
The ancient city of Pompeii is one of those archaeological sites that keeps on giving with one discovery after another. While much of what we know about the Roman settlement comes from the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, another significant event from nearly a century earlier is also yielding fresh insights into its past.