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1.2 Million Year Old Tools, 20 kyo Proto Writing, and Crazy Rich Egyptians! - TAS 204
Episode 204
Published 3 years, 4 months ago
Description
There's some "mind-blowing" news in archaeology this week! We start with early hominids in Ethiopia using tools 500,000 years earlier than anything thought. Then we move to a possible 20,000 year old writing system in rock art. Finally, the oldest mummy ever found in Egypt was covered in gold! What else will they find there?
Links
- Archaeologists Discover 1.2 Million-Year-Old 'Workshop' in Mind-Blowing Find
- A surge in obsidian exploitation more than 1.2 million years ago at Simbiro III (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia) (Abstract and figures only)
- Cave drawings from 20,000 years ago may feature an early form of writing
- Could These Cave Markings Be the Earliest Form of Writing?
- An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar (open access)
- Pseudo-Arch Podcast: The Antikythera Mechanism - Ep 96
- Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
- Archaeologists may have found Egypt's oldest mummy
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