The sea and land monsters that are found in many Northern Places, 1552-65
Maritime Art and History Collection
Peabody Essex Museum
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Archaeological News: Ancient Builders Created Monumental Structures that Altered Sound and Mind, Say Researchers →
The results of recent research suggests that ancient, or prehistoric, builders of the monumental structures found in such diverse places as Ireland, Malta, southern Turkey and Peru all have a peculiarly common characteristic — they may have been specially designed to conduct and manipulate…
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Archaeological News: Prehistoric Humans and Changing Climate Worked Together to Kill Off Great Ice Age Mammals →
It turns out that prehistoric human hunters of the Ice Age had significant help from the weather when it came to driving the big mammals, like mammoths and mastodons, to their extinction.
So reports the authors of a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
