Pinboard (andrewducker) https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/public/ recent bookmarks from andrewducker Native Americans had dice and games of probability before other cultures (about 12,000 years ago) 2026-04-08T08:43:02+00:00 https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/native-americans-dice-games-probability-study-rcna266426 andrewduckerdice America prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cbc543b6313b/ Earth’s first mass extinction may have been far worse than believed 2026-03-19T15:22:40+00:00 https://www.earth.com/news/kotlin-crisis-earths-first-mass-extinction-may-have-been-far-worse-than-we-thought/ andrewduckerextinction prehistory paleontology https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:db3ffdc2584d/ Reminder that there is very old architecture in America 2025-12-10T22:33:26+00:00 https://www.tumblr.com/andrewducker/802582716610740224?source=share andrewduckerUSA prehistory archeology https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:dcbdcde2d68c/ Bronze Age mega-settlement in Kazakhstan reveals advanced urban planning and metallurgy 2025-11-29T19:22:54+00:00 https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/bronze-age-mega-settlement-in-kazakhstan/ andrewduckercities prehistory kazakhstan https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1f773dda581a/ Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters 2025-10-27T11:34:06+00:00 https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/ice-age-hunters-in-south-america-preferred-now-extinct-megafauna/ andrewduckerprehistory SouthAmerica food animals https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d480a9e5dc3c/ A human-faced stone from 12 thousand years ago was found in Karahan Tepe (Turkey) 2025-10-14T21:22:26+00:00 https://www.trthaber.com/foto-galeri/karahantepede-12-bin-yil-oncesine-ait-insan-yuzlu-dikili-tas-bulundu/73912/sayfa-1.html andrewduckerturkey archeology prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:01dd7a8ccbb2/ Neanderthals looked after the disabled members of their tribes 2025-08-14T08:06:30+00:00 https://g-taire.tumblr.com/post/155787650618/fandomsandfeminism-humans-are-a-communal andrewduckerdisability prehistory humans neanderthal https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3a45220b7ce7/ The complex origin story of domestic cats: Research points to Tunisia 2025-04-22T21:03:54+00:00 https://phys.org/news/2025-04-complex-story-domestic-cats-tunisia.html andrewduckercats prehistory archeology https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f4cce097bfe1/ What's going on with the announcements of "bringing dire wolves back from extinction" 2025-04-08T16:46:28+00:00 https://bsky.app/profile/ferrisjabr.bsky.social/post/3lmavprh4ic2p andrewduckerprehistory DNA animals wolves genetics viaPatrickHadfield https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7fbd5ccaf9c1/ Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’s 2025-02-22T14:19:04+00:00 https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-switch-soft-food-gave-us-overbite-and-ability-pronounce-f-s-and-v-s andrewduckerspeech food bone bodies prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ec849b93df3d/ The wheel may have been invented by copper miners in eastern Europe 6,000 years ago 2024-10-28T13:49:59+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/wheel-invention-origin-history-europe-b2633998.html andrewduckerTechnology prehistory europe https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c04cfba76f40/ Over 300 New 'Nazca Lines' Geoglyphs Have Been Revealed by AI 2024-09-27T10:08:56+00:00 https://thedebrief.org/look-over-300-new-nazca-lines-geoglyphs-have-been-revealed-by-ai/ andrewduckerprehistory art America ai https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:387706ed8571/ Ice Age study teenagers went through puberty at the same age as modern ones 2024-09-13T10:43:38+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ice-age-bones-teenagers-puberty-b2611826.html andrewduckerteenagers puberty prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ce7e80380bec/ Potentially biogenic carbon preserved in a 4.1 billion-year-old zircon 2024-09-11T13:24:26+00:00 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517557112 andrewduckerlife prehistory carbon https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:18c86e98752b/ New Mineral analysis indicates Stonehenge’s Altar Stone originated from Scotland 2024-08-14T15:53:10+00:00 https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146415628 andrewduckergeology prehistory UK Scotland stonehenge https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0792cbd45bed/ Complex life forms may have originated 1.5 billion years earlier than thought, and then all died out 2024-07-30T07:12:13+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/complex-life-origin-earth-timeline-b2587513.html andrewduckerlife prehistory earth apocalypse https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:636c9bf7ad29/ Who are modern Indians descended from? 2024-07-15T22:25:08+00:00 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1812797936927170849.html andrewduckerIndia genetics prehistory viaDanielDWilliam https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a0631dadab31/ But *when* was being gay invented? 2024-06-17T19:54:36+00:00 https://www.tumblr.com/andrewducker/753562475466768384?source=share andrewduckerLGBT gay prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1c62dccbf21d/ 4,000 years ago a mutation in horses made them easier to ride. Within 300 years we had spread them everywhere. 2024-06-10T11:44:31+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/horse-origin-america-mongolia-archaeology-b2559694.html andrewduckerhorses europe prehistory genetics https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e910e2c91c87/ Monumental snake engravings of the Orinoco River 2024-06-10T09:09:21+00:00 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/monumental-snake-engravings-of-the-orinoco-river/147F83AA4381153C4D0F4EA4817B3766 andrewduckerSouthAmerica snake art prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ae6e505ba539/ Did you know that there are fossilized footprints showing a woman picking up and putting down a child as they walked beside her? 2024-06-04T18:12:49+00:00 https://www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/nature/fossilized-footprints.htm andrewduckerprehistory children fossils https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:efaf182b0be4/ Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas 2024-05-20T09:08:33+00:00 https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/05/19/first-americans-chesapeake-parsons-island/ andrewduckerprehistory USA archaeology https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:415281e0277b/ Deep-sea hiatus record reveals orbital pacing by 2.4 Myr eccentricity grand cycles 2024-03-16T21:40:30+00:00 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46171-5 andrewduckerprehistory ocean space weird https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0d6a8b1f3647/ There's a fascinating discussion in this article about who "the Celts" were 2024-02-18T22:14:22+00:00 https://acoup.blog/2023/05/12/collections-who-were-the-celts-and-how-did-they-some-of-them-fight/ andrewduckerprehistory Europe language society https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3bc0b195c76f/ Scientists found a 900m Stone Age hunting wall submerged in the Baltic Sea 2024-02-14T10:49:11+00:00 https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/could-this-submerged-stone-age-wall-be-europes-oldest-megastructure/ andrewduckerprehistory archeology https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:261bc627711e/ How to make Neolithic flatbread 2024-02-13T11:53:28+00:00 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1755991379971309995.html andrewduckerprehistory cooking turkey https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d7fe2bae0ffd/ Who Are Western Europeans? New Study Reveals True Origins (three waves of colonisation) 2024-01-17T14:17:58+00:00 https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2024-01-16/ty-article/who-are-western-europeans-new-study-reveals-true-origins/0000018d-0dfa-de9c-a3df-6ffb44030000 andrewduckereurope prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d035883810ca/ DNA-researcher: It’s not 'woke' to portray prehistoric Europeans with dark skin. It’s evolution. 2023-12-02T18:44:47+00:00 https://www.sciencenordic.com/archaeology-denmark-history/dna-researcher-its-not-woke-to-portray-prehistoric-europeans-with-dark-skin-its-evolution/2273715 andrewduckerevolution colour skin Europe prehistory genetics https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c371657113fc/ Breakthrough in reading unopened ancient scrolls by scanning them 2023-10-12T16:00:44+00:00 https://scrollprize.org/firstletters andrewduckerarchaeology ai technology prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9826b6a7e76e/ A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant 2023-10-06T12:47:20+00:00 https://phys.org/news/2023-10-prehistoric-cosmic-airburst-advent-agriculture.html andrewduckermiddle_east agriculture prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:29a7409438bd/ Scientists discover world’s oldest human-built structure, built by an extinct species 2023-10-02T12:45:56+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/zambia-oldest-human-built-structure-extinct-species-b2421885.html andrewduckerhumans prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:71ff94739651/ How far back into pre-history can we push the earliest societies? 2023-09-21T14:35:11+00:00 http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/09/pushing-it-back.html andrewduckerprehistory Intelligence society https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f49649169a82/ Our Human Ancestors Very Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago, Genetics Suggest, With A Population of less than 1,300 2023-09-01T22:08:38+00:00 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/genetics-suggest-our-human-ancestors-very-nearly-went-extinct-900000-years-ago-180982830/ andrewduckerprehistory genetics humans https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:54c3b545437e/ Using economic theory to find lost cites of the Bronze Age 2023-08-28T08:09:48+00:00 https://nitter.net/cremieuxrecueil/status/1695513196625326451 andrewduckerviaDanielDWilliam trade prehistory economics cities https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:313eb44d4bca/ How much would it cost to make a simple piece of clothing by hand 2023-07-16T14:32:45+00:00 https://nitter.net/lingerie_addict/status/1680276589701890050 andrewduckerclothing money prehistory viaDanielDWilliam https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1f97a571484e/ DNA Research Reveals Surprising Origins of Native Americans 2023-05-24T06:35:23+00:00 https://mymodernmet.com/dna-analysis-native-americans andrewduckerUSA genetics prehistory viaNancyLebov https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c38a7e8bbcde/ It's 1178 BCE and the Bronze Age Has Never Looked Stronger. 2023-05-10T03:59:34+00:00 https://www.thechatner.com/p/its-1178-bce-and-the-bronze-age-has andrewduckerprehistory archeology funny history https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:58c33337d37c/ Clues to the Lives of North America’s First Inhabitants Are Hidden Underwater 2023-03-30T12:51:17+00:00 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/biggest-clues-lives-early-americans-hidden-underwater-submerged-prehistory-180981891/ andrewduckerusa prehistory archeology ocean https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ee23200d8e1c/ Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago 2023-03-01T15:00:59+00:00 https://phys.org/news/2023-02-steel-europe-years.html andrewduckerprehistory archeology materials europe https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ea8ce8e16f92/ The idea that in earlier societies men were the hunters while women were the gatherers is a myth 2023-01-14T10:08:36+00:00 https://twitter.com/flaminhaystacks/status/1613841972875100160 andrewduckergender society history prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d6fdd36e9aec/ The Oberkassel puppy is the oldest known domesticated dog 2023-01-08T15:01:29+00:00 https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-oberkassel-puppy/ andrewduckerdogs prehistory Germany https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:891decd395dd/ Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery 2023-01-05T11:11:07+00:00 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64162799 andrewducker prehistory calendars art https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8bca4d42c4b7/ Scientists Revived 32,000-Year-Old Plant DNA From Siberian Permafrost 2023-01-04T21:07:34+00:00 https://mymodernmet.com/scientists-revived-32000-year-old-plant-dna/ andrewduckerplants prehistory Russia https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8360bb5a50b6/ Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record by one million years 2022-12-07T16:41:07+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dna-greenland-ice-age-scientists-mastodon-b2240742.html andrewduckergenetics dna prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:5970f7e0b8ad/ If you've ever wanted to sleep through the winter then feel envious of your ancestors, who may have done just that 2022-10-16T10:54:25+00:00 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003552120300832 andrewduckersleep winter humans prehistory bone archeology https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cad4af5c1547/ New technique shows old temperatures were much hotter than thought 2022-09-07T14:39:28+00:00 https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/ancient-deep-ocean-may-have-been-hotter-than-we-thought/ andrewduckerco2 prehistory globalwarming ocean https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ab2ce138b412/ What if life first evolved in hydrothermal vents *before* there even were genes? 2022-08-10T08:07:10+00:00 https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-biochemists-view-of-lifes-origin-reframes-cancer-and-aging-20220808/ andrewduckergenetics life prehistory biology chemistry https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:93a6d35fed57/ The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range 2022-08-08T11:01:10+00:00 https://vividmaps.com/central-pangean-mountains/ andrewduckermountains prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:45b9a4127796/ How did explorers in the 7th century BC sail the oceans? 2022-07-14T10:20:37+00:00 https://twitter.com/cwjones89/status/1547160424759451650 andrewduckerocean exploration ships archeology prehistory history viaDanielDWilliam https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6aba608ea505/ Sex with your distant ancestors: bestiality or not? 2022-06-11T07:55:21+00:00 https://andrewducker.tumblr.com/post/686748103719698432/nudityandnerdery-elfwreck-alarajrogers andrewduckerbestiality sex prehistory evolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:eb2c694f2d9f/ Why didn't our ancient ancestors get cavities? 2022-04-26T10:34:11+00:00 https://sciencenorway.no/animal-kingdom-apes-history/why-didnt-our-ancient-ancestors-get-cavities/2010848 andrewduckerteeth prehistory archeology society farming https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:95c5adc6fe4b/ Europe's Lost World (And The Megaflood That Ended It) 2022-04-19T08:19:10+00:00 https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/europes-lost-world-and-the-megaflood?s=r andrewduckerprehistory uk europe flooding https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ecce74bf3007/ The fashion capital of the prehistoric world has been revealed 2022-04-07T06:30:46+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/stonehenge-fashion-capital-historic-world-b2052072.html andrewduckerart craft fashion prehistory Spain archeology https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:dd999e8e5896/ Chalk drum from 5,000 years ago is the most important UK art find in a century 2022-02-11T15:48:49+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/drum-discover-british-museum-stonehenge-b2012728.html andrewduckeruk prehistory archaeology art https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:628275833e84/ Women led the Bronze Age immigration to Orkney 2022-02-08T14:27:52+00:00 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-60290483?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA andrewduckerscotland prehistory genetics women migration https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a4cea2ed895e/ The human mind does not easily process the gulfs of time that humans have existed for 2022-02-07T11:55:13+00:00 https://twitter.com/Hieraaetus/status/1490295667369340930?t=j9L1jireCf94QpPy8L8BPg&s=09 andrewduckerhumans prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f32079dfa8d9/ The Trees That Miss The Mammoths 2022-01-30T08:01:03+00:00 https://www.americanforests.org/magazine/article/trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/ andrewduckertrees prehistory elephants https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:984af1ed56d6/ Ancient mass migration transformed Britons' DNA 2021-12-23T14:21:43+00:00 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59741723 andrewduckergenetics UK prehistory language https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:17257e776aec/ Intellectual Property For Early Man 2021-12-21T16:05:08+00:00 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fire-3 andrewduckerfunny intellectual_property comics prehistory fire https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:725c3b923b3c/ Which early hominid are you? (I got homo sapiens sapiens, which delighted me) 2021-12-10T20:40:43+00:00 https://uquiz.com/quiz/FNH6hT/which-early-hominid-are-you andrewduckerneanderthal prehistory quiz ViaDrCross https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:eced74090354/ The best selling single of every decade, all the way back to the dawn of humankind! 2021-12-05T20:53:02+00:00 https://twitter.com/archiehench/status/1202581625453850625?t=Pdir4747nQwpOWwPeUwaFg&s=09 andrewduckermusic history prehistory funny https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d90ff192e93a/ Prehistoric cave paintings were animations 2021-11-14T19:15:51+00:00 https://andrewducker.tumblr.com/post/667856153348292608/im-not-crying-youre-crying-shut-the-fuck andrewduckeranimation video prehistory art cave https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8df3ef69c686/ Fossilized Footprints Reveal Human Habitation of North America 23,000 Years Ago 2021-09-25T06:40:44+00:00 https://www.usgs.gov/news/fossilized-footprints-reveal-human-habitation-north-america-thousands-years-earlier-previously andrewduckerhumans paleontology prehistory USA America https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c8cecc9d2609/ A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom 2021-09-20T18:51:15+00:00 https://theconversation.com/a-giant-space-rock-demolished-an-ancient-middle-eastern-city-and-everyone-in-it-possibly-inspiring-the-biblical-story-of-sodom-167678 andrewduckerprehistory asteroids middle_east https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c254169e2135/ Sex was invented in Scotland 2021-09-18T06:53:01+00:00 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29661446 andrewduckerScotland sex prehistory paleontology https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7f20c00a0c0a/ Middle Pleistocene fire use: The first signal of widespread cultural diffusion in human evolution 2021-08-03T13:29:21+00:00 https://www.pnas.org/content/118/31/e2101108118 andrewduckerfire prehistory society https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:59db4923cec7/ Evidence of the Elements - Finding Euclid on scattered pot shards. 2021-07-18T12:12:31+00:00 https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/evidence-elements andrewduckerhistory mathematics prehistory archeology https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8ce4a2d40b44/ The mountains that are older than fish (and stretch from America to Norway via Scotland) 2021-07-17T14:28:48+00:00 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1415665948355403778.html andrewduckermountains prehistory viaNancyLebov https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:727bb577360d/ Researchers investigate the spread of weighing systems across Western Eurasia 4,000 years ago 2021-07-08T10:08:35+00:00 https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/researchers-investigate-spread-of.html andrewduckereurope prehistory measurement weight https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d6b3fac13b1f/ Which came first, bread or beer? 2021-06-09T15:04:43+00:00 https://andrewducker.tumblr.com/post/653526047473680384 andrewduckerbread beer alcohol prehistory https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:5cdf0b945448/