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  1. Million-Year-Old Cannibals Took Advantage of the Easy Calories

    ... Homo antecessor, ate humans “in preference” to other animals. Inhabiting hunting planes in what is today Spain ... examining many pre-existing studies which demonstrate how animals feeding strategies are adapted to achieve the optimal ... per day, which yielded “the caloric payoffs of various animals including humans” compared with the energy expended ...

    ashley cowie - 12/05/2019 - 14:45

  2. Scientists Have Almost Completed the Resurrection of Extinct Aurochs and Plan to Reintroduce Them to the Wild

    ... So far scientists in those countries have bred about 500 animals. Aurochs are ancestors of modern cattle but stood ... they've chosen instead is the selective breeding of animals that exist today to get as close as possible to their ... Hungary, and other laboratories are producing more of the animals. Scientists say with every generation, the animals ...

    ancient-origins - 02/01/2017 - 00:59

  3. Are Humans Just Self-Domesticated Apes?

    ... of the human mind. Why are humans so different from other animals? Why do we have languages, religions, complex ... from earlier pre-modern hominins in ways like domesticated animals differ from their wild ancestors. Sexual Dimorphism Domestication involves making animals less aggressive and more docile so that they can be ...

    Caleb Strom - 07/04/2017 - 23:05

  4. Curious Reverence of the Chicken and the Hare by Iron Age Brits

    ... in Hampshire and Herefordshire showing that these two animals were introduced to Britain between the 5th and 3rd ... signified “existence itself” and in ancient Greece the animals were associated with the gods Dionysus, Aphrodite, ... / CC BY-SA 2.0 ) All across pre-Roman Europe these two animals were symbols of sexual virility and fertility (spring ...

    ashley cowie - 11/04/2020 - 01:51

  5. The Invisible History of Military Camouflage

    ... think it most likely that humans were inspired by animals and insects that could alter their physical ... the first book on camouflage in 1890 called The Colours of Animals, in which he supported Darwinism claiming animal ... of recognizable shadows. Illustration from The Colors of Animals by Edward Bagnall Poulton, 1890. Black-and-white ...

    ashley cowie - 14/12/2020 - 17:18

  6. Ancient Mummified Lion Cubs Discovered in Egyptian Tomb

    ... back around 2,600 years. The cache of ancient mummified animals includes dozens of mummified cats and birds, an ... Council for Antiquities, saying that if these three animals are identified as cheetahs, leopards, lioness’ or ... time in ancient Egypt worshippers either held mummified animals as actual deities, or they mummified creatures in ...

    ashley cowie - 25/11/2019 - 14:04

  7. How Stork Legends, Myths and Omens Set Their Place in History

    ... of the past had close relationships to nature and wild animals. These bonds did not concern only utilitarian ... of the past had close relationships to nature and wild animals. These bonds did not concern only utilitarian ... Court! An Ox, an Ass … a Dragon? Sorry, there were no Animals in the Bible’s Nativity Scene Pliny, who could have ...

    Maura Andreoni - 23/05/2020 - 23:06

  8. The Black Death: the Plague that Sowed Terror and Death in Medieval Europe - Part 2

    ... to have been transmitted by parasites living in/on these animals, especially fleas. The plague was, therefore, a zoonosis disease passing from animals to humans. Zoonosis helps to explain why the spread ... in many regions of Europe because they were considered animals linked to witchcraft and demonic practices during the ...

    ancient-origins - 13/09/2015 - 04:12

  9. Betrayed by the Acts of Others? The Events that Led to Prometheus’s Perennial Punishment

    ... the graces of the gods. The job of creating man and animals was given to the titan brothers Prometheus and ... creating life upon the earth. Epimetheus quickly created animals that would live in the forests, swim in the seas, and ... strength and frightening claws for the most terrifying animals. While his brother crafted creatures with little ...

    Van Bryan - 17/03/2018 - 12:50

  10. Brazilian Drought Unveils Rare Ancient Petroglyphs On Manaus Riverbed

    ... dated to between 1,000 and 2,000 years old, depict water, animals and little human faces. Archaeologists are so taken ... Left Alone Little Faces With Big Stories Alongside carved animals, and symbolic representations of water, the slightly ... not even have existed. And if this prize find of carved animals and humans wasn’t enough, according to a report in ...

    ashley cowie - 23/10/2023 - 22:51

  11. Nine Crocodile Heads Found in Ancient Egyptian Tombs a “First of Its Kind” Discovery

    ... been deposited in specially prepared catacombs of sacred animals, in this case, crocodiles or sacred animals of the god Sobek.” "In our case, things are ... found in the tombs of humans, not the catacombs of sacred animals.” Did Ancient Egyptians Actively Hunt Crocodiles ...

    Sahir - 23/12/2022 - 17:54

  12. Did You Know That Baboons Were Trained in Ancient Egypt to Catch Criminals?

    The ancient Egyptians were renowned for their worship of animals, and one of these was the baboon. In ancient Egyptian ... of the Middle Kingdom, however, it is likely that these animals were no longer indigenous to Egypt. During the New ... ) Special Roles of Baboons in Egyptian Society As sacred animals, baboons were kept in temples, and cared for by their ...

    dhwty - 19/02/2017 - 14:28

  13. Giant Camel Sculptures in Saudi Desert Found To Be Incredibly Ancient

    ... team of archaeologists studying life-size rock carvings of animals in the Saudi Arabian desert were shocked to discover ... team of archaeologists studying life-size rock carvings of animals in the Saudi Arabian desert were shocked to discover ... these are the oldest three-dimensional rock sculptures of animals discovered anywhere in the world. They pre-date the ...

    Nathan Falde - 20/09/2021 - 19:03

  14. The Rise and Fall of Man: The Long History of Impotence Causes and Cures

    ... over the medical practices of medieval Europe. Try Eating Animals? Traditional Chinese medicine has been infamously linked to the consumption of endangered animals in recent years. Such animal products were tiger ... can be seen in overhunting, risking extinction for these animals. Because of the great demand for traditional animal ...

    B. B. Wagner - 09/10/2021 - 18:58

  15. Evidence Emerges that Ancient Egyptians Used Branding Irons on Human Slaves

    ... iron, and a worker using a long-handled brand to mark the animals.  Some of these branding irons, which were actually ... the possibility, but we have no evidence of small animals like goats being branded, and there is so much other ... British Museum (CC by SA 4.0) Branding Irons Too Small for Animals Branding irons for cattle are typically four inches ...

    Joanna Gillan - 12/11/2022 - 13:56

  16. Mythbusting Ancient Rome: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

    ... criminal being sewn into a leather sack together with four animals – a snake, a monkey, a rooster, and a dog – then ... offender to wild beasts. There is no mention here of any animals in the sack, nor do they appear in contemporary ... is conspicuously absent from his defence speech. The animals are attested in a passage from the writings of the ...

    ancient-origins - 23/01/2018 - 02:00

  17. Understanding the Gods of Egypt: In Unison With Nature

    ... of these gods and goddesses had an animal form, as these animals played a crucial role in the everyday lives of ... regarding almost every aspect of the world around them. Animals were often mummified as a way of sacrifice and ... emphasis was placed on death, the afterlife, and rebirth. Animals had a complex role in the religion of Egyptians. ...

    Aleksa Vučković - 31/08/2019 - 13:56

  18. From Food to Friend: Prehistoric Exotic and Pampered Pets

    ... magazine , but when did humans first begin regarding animals as friends rather than foe or food? Palazzo Massimo ... society. Chickens, pigs, sheep and cows are all domestic animals, yet seldom do these animals become pets, and not all tame animals: lions, tigers ...

    ashley cowie - 08/11/2019 - 23:08

  19. The Sahara As We Know It Today Versus The Green Sahara It Once Was!

    ... happened to the Green Sahara? Where did its people and animals go? The term Green Sahara, which would have looked ... have a name! With this abundance of water, plants, and animals (including elephants , rhinos, warthogs, crocodiles, ... water, and shelter. There was never a shortage of game animals for meat or vegetation for plant-based meals or to ...

    Lex Leigh - 27/03/2022 - 18:58

  20. Blue Babe: Would You Eat 36,000-year-old Bison Meat?

    ... many miners have come across the frozen mummies of ancient animals. The Alaskan Gold Rush, which began around the end of ... many miners have come across the frozen mummies of ancient animals. Blue Babe is the name given to a mummified Alaskan ... intact, which is quite unusual for the remains of animals which lived during Blue Babe’s time. Scientific ...

    dhwty - 08/04/2020 - 00:32

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