12 Most Amazing Recent Archaeological Finds

what's new in the world of archaeology that's a question we ask ourselves a lot on this channel and we are never disappointed with the answer knowledge is power and so the more we can find out about the people and places who came before us the more powerful we become arm yourself with a little knowledge by watching this video which is full of incredible new archaeological finds cave paintings exist in almost every country and continent in the world seemingly suggesting that while early humans might not have had contact with each other they were having the same ideas about art and expression at around the same time the discovery of a series of bison engravings in the it's bitarta hill caves in the basque region of spain in october 2020 has strengthened that idea of connection the 25 000 year old paintings which include birds and other animals as well as bison are consistent with the gravitian style that's been found elsewhere in europe but has never been found in spain before in fact it's never even been found on the iberian peninsula before the style is very distinctive and can be identified by the depiction of limbs as double y shapes making all four legs visible rather than placing one set behind the other the same style has been found across italy and france the discovery suggests that there might have been a loosely shared cultural heritage throughout europe all those years ago long before anyone imagined such a thing could be possible [Music] dogs as the old saying goes are man's best friend but for how long have humans kept canine companions well according to a study that was completed in october 2020 that companionship might go all the way back to the ice age and perhaps even longer ago than that the study involved sequencing ancient dna sourced from around 30 dogs taken from across the european continent reaching as far as the easternmost point of siberia the experts determined that 11 000 years ago there were already at least five different types of dog with unique genetic ancestries and that the evolution of dogs seems to move parallel to the spread of human beings across the european continent in other words ice age humans took their pet dogs with them when they traveled and those dogs then mated with dogs native to the native area thus producing new breeds of canine that means the first instance of a dog getting excited by a human being shouting something similar to walkies happened well over 10 000 years ago future studies might trace these origins back in time even further the question of what should be counted and what should be ignored when we go in search of the world's earliest form of writing is a controversial one should we only accept writing that features a lettered alphabet and ignore things like hieroglyphs or should we accept that writing can be a lot more abstract than letters and words and open ourselves up to what might be a coded form of writing found in stone age art a detailed study of cave art in europe has revealed that 32 distinct lines and shapes reoccur again and again on cave walls experts of the past have tended to overlook the shapes the p-shaped claviform and the t-shaped detective form for example in favor of focusing on paintings for the claviform and tech deform to appear so frequently in caves all over europe though they must have had a special meaning the cross hatch patterns might be even more significant as it's been found in south africa and across the rest of the world rather than being confined to europe we might never be able to decode the shapes but if we accept them as a form of writing then we must also accept that humans have been writing for around 100 000 years can you judge the size of a dinosaur by its tail alone experts think so and they've assessed the owner of this incredibly well-preserved tale in cuahuilla new mexico as being around 40 feet long the creature was a hadrosaur and this impressive tale would have made up around half of the length of its body the discovery made a few years ago in the desert is thought of as the most significant dinosaur discovery in mexican history and one of the most valuable tale discoveries anywhere on the planet according to the scientists who've assessed the fossilized tale and the land it was found on the dinosaur met its end approximately 72 million years ago that's not all they found out during their study though there was enough of the tail left for a sample of the hydrosource hip bone to be taken and through that they found that it had a condition very similar to arthritis in humans it seems the occupants of our planet millions of years before we arrived on it struggled with the few of the same health problems as we do today the sahara is the largest desert in the world you could hide almost anything under the three and a half million square miles of sand that it consists of and perhaps somebody has in october 2020 the discovery of a series of mysterious and seemingly ancient structures below the sand was reported by an excited team of archaeologists working in the western sahara region close to morocco archaeologists haven't spent much time in this part of the desert before so the uncovering of this collection of hundreds of stone structures might just be the tip of the iceberg in terms of what we might find in the future the shapes made in the rock are inconsistent some are long crescents others are straight lines and there are also circles and dolmens to investigate too finding a way to date the structures isn't easy but human remains found close to one of the dolmens suggests an age of around 1 500 years etchings of camels and other animals coupled with the remains of lakes nearby suggest that this might have been a much wetter place back then more favorable to life unfortunately we have no idea who might have lived here or created these structures at present [Music] as we're talking about amazing discoveries in the desert let's check out the 35 burial chambers that have recently been excavated in the sudan desert ancient desert burials in this part of the world aren't necessarily uncommon but this collection of 35 has a strange connection to ancient egypt that's because the burial chambers are pyramid-shaped they might not be as grand in scale as the pyramids of giza but they're mostly of the same style the location of the discovery in sedinga in the north of sudan which was once part of ancient kush and had land borders with both egypt and the roman empire it seems that egypt might have been a greater influence on koosh than most people have realized before now unfortunately all of the tombs had been found by looters before they were discovered by archaeologists meaning that some of the information we might have been able to take from them has been lost that means we might never know why a few of the pyramids were built in cross braces connecting the corners of the buildings to a circle in the center a pyramid design that appears to be exclusive to sedinga looking at aerial pictures of this site in caithness scotland you might think there's nothing to see but grass rocks and moss that's not what archaeologists believe though they've been hard at work here since december 2019 and they hope they'll soon be able to report the discovery of the best preserved collection of pictish homes ever found in the country under the grass and moss are a series of ancient residential dwellings known as wags believed to have been used by the picks 1400 years ago or more they surround the remains of a brock a stone tower that dates back to the iron age while it's always been known that the history of human habitation of the area goes back more than one thousand years it's never previously been possible to prove that it was the picks who lived on the land if traces of them can indeed be found here it might get us one step closer to finding out who they really were and how they lived we know almost nothing about them even the name picks is a term that we've taken from the ancient romans who used it to disparage them [Music] elsewhere in the united kingdom during december 2019 a fine collection of ancient artifacts belonging to both the anglo-saxons and the romans was discovered in baggington warwickshire the discovery was reported on christmas day that year the fines include jewelry pots jugs and human remains the site which is at the edge of an airport was disturbed accidentally during a housing development project in late 2017 but archaeologists were subsequently called in and spent two years examining the site they concluded that one of the people buried here was probably a high-ranking roman soldier and another was a young anglo-saxon girl the girl was found with a picture of a cicada which is an insect often associated with immortality in ancient customs some of the jewelry recovered from the site appears to be southern european in design suggesting that the roman soldier was either well connected or well traveled he was also buried with this ceremonial dagger still inside its leather sheath although the blade has somehow been badly damaged in the years since his burial all of the items are now scheduled to go on display at a local museum for many years we've deluded ourselves into thinking that neandertals were exceptionally primitive hominids with little capacity of critical thought or expression more recently a number of discoveries have been made which demonstrate that theory to be untrue take this archaeological find in france in april 2020 as an example it's a piece of string woven by a neanderthal approximately fifty thousand years ago the minuscule three-ply string fragment made from bark was found attached to a stone tool at the site of abri dumaras it suggests that neanderthals didn't just make use of the natural materials that surrounded them they were also capable of adapting them and making their own if they could make string and cord it also follows that they might have been able to make fishing nets clothing and perhaps even boats in order to understand the process involved in making string neanderthals must have had an operational memory of context and function as well as a fundamental grasp of the concept of numeracy they might have been a lot more like early homo sapiens than our history books give them credit for coins did not yet exist in israel 2 700 years ago in their absence weights and measures were of paramount importance when it came to bartering and working out fair units of trade and exchange that's where artifacts like this limestone way came in discovered in jerusalem the wait dates back to the first temple period and has been identified as a two shekalim unit the egyptian symbol carved into the top of the weight means shekel with the pair of incised lines next to the symbol indicating that the unit is doubled historical records tell us that a double shekel should weigh precisely 23 grams just as this one does to create a stone weight with such a precise shape and mass wouldn't have been easy using the tools that were available at the time so whoever produced shekels in jerusalem back then must have been a master craftsman using a weight like this buyers and sellers could measure out accurate amounts of products at the busy markets that once did business at the foot of the temple mount they would also have been useful when it came to working out tax payments which back then were only half a shekel per year history tells us what life was like in great cities like rome during the days of the roman empire but how did people live in more rural areas back then to answer that question we have to look at archaeological developments like the recent excavation of the roman bath complex in rafina greece here an olive press basin with a strange inscription is shedding new light on how life in the empire was away from the hustle and bustle of major population centers when the site was first discovered it was thought to be the ruins of an ancient basilica but now it's believed to be a second century agricultural center that didn't mean that the people here didn't enjoy a few luxuries though the inscription we mentioned earlier confirms that the bathing facilities were for the use of the public rather than a few carefully selected military officials and members of the aristocracy they probably provided a place to go and relax after a long day of pressing olives or tending to the fields grand public baths weren't just for the elite in ancient raffina they were for everybody for centuries anchram old bridge was considered to be the most important medieval bridge in all of scotland historical records tell us that it connected one side of the river teviot to the other continuing the ancient king's way in the process mary queen of scots crossed the bridge as she came home from her tour of the borders in 1566. the marquis of montrose crossed it almost a century later on his way to the battle of philippa in 1645 one day it disappeared historians knew it from their record books but there was no sign of the bridge at the site now it's been found again and it's in the most obvious location possible it's on the riverbed right underneath the new bridge that stands in its place radiocarbon dating has been performed on samples recovered from the bridge confirming that it dates back to the 13th century that's consistent with what we know about the original bridge which was built during the reign of scottish king david ii back then it was probably the only way to cross the river teviot on land anywhere between berwick and hawwik which would have made it a hugely important feature how many more discoveries like this might be out there hiding in plain sight subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and you will be the first to know when a new video comes out thank you for watching and see you soon

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Published: Fri Nov 27 2020