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New research in northern Chile reveals 76 ancient stone traps used to hunt vicuña across the high Andean valleys. These “tethered landscapes” show how mobility, cooperation, and ecology shaped Andean lifeways. #Archaeology #Andes #BehavioralEcology #Pleistocene https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-tethered-highlands-ancient-hunting

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a lost Ice Age land bridge linking Anatolia and Europe—possibly used by both Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Pleistocene #Aegean https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-sea-was-a-road-early-humans

Ancient lakes in the Gobi Desert supported human life 8,000 years ago

The Gobi Desert today is one of the driest and harshest landscapes on Earth, stretching over northern China and Mongolia. Yet, a recent study published in PLOS One reveals that thousands of years ago, the desert was dotted with wetlands and lakes that nourished fertile ground for human life...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/10/ancient-lakes-in-the-gobi-desert-supported-human-life/

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#archaeology #archaeologynews #gobidesert #pleistocene #holocene

Ancient lakes in the Gobi Desert supported human life 8,000 years ago

The Gobi Desert today is one of the driest and harshest landscapes on Earth, stretching over northern China and Mongolia. Yet, a recent study published in PLOS One reveals that thousands of years ago, the desert was dotted with wetlands and lakes that nourished fertile ground for human life. University of Wrocław archaeologists, in collaboration with international colleagues, have discovered that the Gobi was much more hospitable in the past than it is today...

🦥 For #FossilFriday this is P68.40.1 - the rarest Minnesota fossil I’ve ever held in my hand: an well-preserved ungual phalanx of Megalonyx jeffersoni (Giant Ground Sloth).

Discovered in the late 1960s in a pile of excavated peat, it remains the singular specimen of this animal found in the state and is now in the Science Museum of Minnesota’s collection.

#Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #Megalonyxjeffersoni #Palaeontology #Groundsloth #CitizenScience

Plates: Erickson, Bruce R. (1968).

Plate of claw from Erickson, Bruce R. paper (1968).

Plates: Erickson, Bruce R. (1968). A Claw of Megalonyx (Ground Sloth) from Minnesota. In Volume 1: Paleontology, pp. 1–8.

Bring back Ms. #Woolly #Rhino 🦏

https://www.iflscience.com/longest-woolly-rhino-horn-ever-recovered-popped-out-of-the-siberian-permafrost-81091 #wildlife #siberia #pleistocene

A 400,000-year-old elephant site near Rome reveals how early humans adapted to a warmer world, turning bones into tools and environment into teacher. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Pleistocene #Italy https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-giants-walked-the-tiber-how

Middle #Pleistocene humans butchering elephants for meat and raw materials at Casal Lumbroso (nr Rome) 400 BP

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-early-humans-butchered-elephants-small.html

🐪 #LostBones 🐪 says: Hmmm… A recent visit to the Jackson County Historical Society revealed a camel calcaneus in the collection.

Among specimens from a 2015 study of a section of the Des Moines River, which examined bison, horse, deer, and other skeletal remains it was part of over 800 bones cataloged. But was this camel actually in Minnesota? More to come.

https://www.jchsmn.org
Lost Bones: https://medium.com/@dbrake40
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#FossilFriday #Pleistocene #Camel #Palaeontology #CitizenScience

Pretty amazing, recovery of Equus #mtDNA from Middle #Pleistocene open-air site of Schöningen as long as 300,000 years ago

#palaeogenomics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02859-5?et_rid=34814771&et_cid=5748752

Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters https://arstechni.ca/pmzk #ancientpeopledidstuff #megafaunalextinction #ancientsouthamerica #Archaeology #pleistocene #Megafauna #Science

🦬🍲 In 1984, Scientists at the University of #Alaska ate 50,000-year-old frozen bison #meat to celebrate completing the preservation of "Blue Babe," a perfectly preserved steppe #bison discovered by #gold miners. The researchers described the ancient neck stew as having a "strong #Pleistocene aroma" but tasting delicious, with no ill effects.

👉 https://www.iflscience.com/it-had-a-strong-pleistocene-aroma-in-1984-scientists-ate-a-50000-year-old-bison-in-a-stew-80973

#paleontology #science #archaeology #permafrost #history #food

Dmanisi #Hominins,[1][2][3] Dmanisi people,[4] or Dmanisi man[5] were a population of Early #Pleistocene hominins whose fossils have been recovered at Dmanisi, Georgia. The fossils and stone tools recovered at Dmanisi range in age from 1.85 to 1.77 million years old,[6][7][8]

🐘🦥🐪 #FossilFriday: Meet the big boy—Bison Skull #147 from the Anoka Sand Plains Cherney Bison Site - found in a paleo-channel running through an ancient peat bog.

Skull #147 is one of the largest specimens out of over 100 – an impressive 94 cm (37 in.) across the horn cores - materials at the site were dated to 7,146 ± 25 years BP.

Now at the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History

🔗 https://www.smmnh.com

#Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #BisonOccidentalis #Palaeontology #CitizenScience

These skulls likely belong to the extinct species Bison occidentalis. Radiocarbon dating of other material from the site yielded a calibrated age of 7,146 ± 25 years BP.

This channel was packed with bison and other mammal remains. Local citizen Pat Cherney, along with his wife and several friends, salvaged everything they could before the bulldozers rolled in. Included in their efforts were over 100 skulls or partial skulls.

Feeling for bones at the Anoka Sand Plain Cherney Bison Site!

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 👣🦴 Scientists at White Sands National Park have found 23,000-year-old fossilized footprints that rewrite human #history in the Americas, pushing back the timeline nearly 10,000 years.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/who-left-these-23000-year-old-footprints-in-new-mexicos-white-sands?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=white_sands_footprints

#fossils #paleoanthropology #archaeology #newmexico #pleistocene #science

A sandy beach with labeled fossilized footprints showing mammoth and human tracks side by side at White Sands National Park.

👣🦴 Scientists at White Sands National Park have found 23,000-year-old fossilized footprints that rewrite human #history in the Americas, pushing back the timeline nearly 10,000 years.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/who-left-these-23000-year-old-footprints-in-new-mexicos-white-sands?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=white_sands_footprints

#fossils #paleoanthropology #archaeology #newmexico #pleistocene #science

Shocked quartz at three iconic Clovis sites strengthens evidence for a cosmic airburst 12,800 years ago — a possible trigger for megafaunal extinctions and the collapse of the Clovis world. #Archaeology #Pleistocene #YoungerDryas https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-sky-fell-shocked-quartz

This unassuming and weathered fragment is a rare example of a Giant Ground Sloth tooth.

The Giant Ground Sloth roamed #Florida during the #Pleistocene period and it's remains are found in the #fossil deposits of the famous Bone Valley formation.