Archaeology Teahouse
Excavating the Past, One Story at a Time
№ 2026·07 · JULY 2026
Divine Light: What do an Ibis, Baboon and the God of the Moon Have in Common?Researchers used a spectrometer to test a long-standing question about why Egypt paired a bird and a baboon with its moon god The moon’s nearside next to an…
№ 2026·07 · JULY 2026
Rewriting the Textbook (Again): The Clovis Didn’t Use the AtlatlRadiocarbon dating and an extinction-based model suggest the atlatl postdates the Clovis by roughly two millennia. Hunter-gatherers hunting mammoths. Credit…
№ 2026·07 · JULY 2026
Ancient Giants: What Happened to Portugal's Enormous Brown Bears?A recent study of Pleistocene bear remains from Portugal finds no trace of cave bears, but brown bears large enough to be mistaken for them. A brown bear (he…
