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Chasseur de la Préhistoire. L'Homme de Tautavel il y a 450 000 ans.
The Arago cave (or "Caune", as it is also called) is one of the largest karstic caves in the southern Corbières region. The cave is located high up, overlooking the Tautavel Valley, and offering an unparalleled view of the surroundings. This observation post must have been ideal for prehistoric hunters, who could thus watch the movements of game. In addition, the Verdouble, flowing at the foot of the cliff, was a watering place where animals came to drink - thus offering an obvious advantage to the people of Tautavel. Near the former entrance to the cave, a path provided easy access to another hunting area: the plateau, located above the cave.
The Iceman Photo Scan is an innovative project which records the complete photographic documentation of the body of the Iceman mummy. Thanks to 12 differing angle-shots it is possible to see the whole body of the mummy. The intuitive zoom function enables a high-resolution navigation, from a total body image down to millimetric detail. The image at any enlargement guarantees both a perfect view and accurate colour reproduction. Particular attention has been deserved to the recording of the tattoos on the mummy's body. This section contains the complete mapping of the tattoos via high definition photos of the single interesting points. It is also possible to compare and contrast the images taken with white light with those taken with a particular UV light. An apposite selection of images, enables the 3D view of the mummy. The amazing show can be enjoyed exclusively by wearing the specific anaglyph glasses, which can be easily purchased on the internet.
KFRP Koobi Fora Research Project Lake Turkana Basin
The KFRP Team is once again searching for clues to our origins in Turkana. Since 1968 we have made annual expeditions to this fantastic part of Kenya in an effort to better understand how we came to be. With this online Journal you can now explore with us the fossil-rich area around Lake Turkana.
Kimmswick - Mastodon State Historic Site
Mastodon State Historic Site contains an important archaeological and paleontological site - the Kimmswick Bone Bed, where scientists discovered the first solid evidence of the coexistence of humans and the American mastodon in eastern North America. At the end of the ice age that occurred from 35,000 to 10,000 years ago, the glaciers to the north were slowly melting as the earth warmed. Animals such as giant ground sloths, peccaries, and hairy, elephantlike mastodons roamed the Midwest. Paleontologists theorize that the area was once swampy and contained mineral springs. Animals that came to the springs may have become trapped in the mud, which helped preserve their bones. Early American Indians also had reached present-day Missouri by at least 12,000 years ago. For a brief period at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, the lives of humans and mastodons intertwined.
Paleopathology of the Crow Creek Massacre site
In the mid-fourteenth century A.D., more than 486 individuals were massacred at the Crow Creek Site, 39BF11, located on the east bank of the Missouri River in South Dakota. In the study of their remains, a search was made for diseases, anomalies, and abnormalities which had affected these people during life and had left an imprint on their bones. Because the villagers had apparently lived and died together in a pre-White contact Initial Contact village and were ancestral to the Arikara, data from the study could provide important information about them, their lifestyle, and also regarding the health status of the aborigines in the pre-Columbian era.
The Sunghir Archaeological Site
The Sunghir archaeological site is situated near of Vladimir city, 192 km from Moscow (56°11" NL and 40°30" EL). The settlement was discovered in 1955. For 16 field seasons (1957-1977) an expedition under supervision of Otto N. Bader revealed 4500 m2 of the site area. Age of the settlement is defined from the disposal of the cultural layer in the so called Bryansk soil, connected with the corresponding interstadial of Valdai Ice age of Late Pleistocene. One of the first radiocarbon dates, obtained from collagen of reindeer bones in Groningen laboratory gives absolute age of 24430+/- 400 years ago (Gro 5446) and from charcoal - 25500+/- 200 years ago (Gro 5425).
This small, isolated peat deposit contains artifacts and human burials dating to the Early Archaic period. It represents one of the largest collections of human skeletal material from its time period and one of the largest collections of fiber arts yet found at any archeological site in the New World.
