GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Conventional thinking in anthropology has it that prehistoric hunting was an activity reserved for males, while females did the gathering. Turns out this assumption is wrong, according to a provocative new study. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 26, 2020

In 2011, Swedish archaeologists found human skulls that had been mounted on stakes at an 8,000-year-old burial site, representing a behavior rarely seen among prehistoric hunter-gatherers. An incredible, computer-aided facial reconstruction finally puts a face to one of these skulls. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 28, 2020

The unusual placement of a sword found in a Viking grave suggests the weapon was brandished by a southpaw warrior, in what is an unusual discovery. Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered seven well-preserved footprints belonging to humans. Dated to around 120,000 years ago, these appear to be the oldest evidence of our species in the region. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 21, 2020

Her unsettling, seemingly agonized facial expression gave this ancient Egyptian mummy the nickname “screaming woman.” A new analysis claims that this shocking pose is actually related to the woman’s cause of death, an apparent heart attack. But other scientists are skeptical, saying the open-mouthed scream likely only… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 13, 2020

Archaeologists from South Africa have uncovered rudimentary beds that early humans made by placing bundles of grass onto a layer of ash. Sounds basic, but these Stone Age beds were more sophisticated than they appear at first glance. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 10, 2020

A thorough re-analysis of a skeleton belonging to a 2-year-old Neanderthal and the archaeological site in which it was discovered some 50 years ago is providing some of the strongest evidence yet that Neanderthals deliberately buried their dead. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2020

Using high-resolution, 3D X-ray scans, a team of researchers has digitally unwrapped and analyzed three mummified animals from ancient Egypt. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 30, 2020

A 1,000-year-old recipe to treat eye infections could lead to an unorthodox way of combating antibiotic resistance. Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

There’s a cave in California, roughly an hour’s drive from Santa Barbara, whose ceiling features a prominent pinwheel-like drawing. Fascinating new research suggests this painting is not some drug-induced abstraction, but a literal representation of the very thing that makes psychedelic trips possible. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 22, 2020

Archaeological discoveries in a Mexican cave suggest humans reached North America some 30,000 years ago, which is a whopping 10,000 to 15,000 years earlier than previous estimates. The new research means it’s all but certain that the first people to reach the continent did so by following a Pacific coastal route. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 7, 2020

Archaeologists in Bolivia have recovered a fully intact underwater Inca offering containing a miniature llama figurine and a gold bracelet. The offering, dropped into Lake Titicaca some 500 years ago, provides key insights into Inca rituals and spiritual beliefs. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 15, 2020

For archaeologists, ancient bones and stone tools are important lines of evidence, but sometimes the answers to our past can be found in piles of human poop, as an important new analysis shows. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 9, 2020

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered the well-preserved remains of a cat that died over 1,000 years ago along the Silk Road. The feline lived a tough life but was apparently cared for by pastoralists, in an unheard of practice given their nomadic lifestyles. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 29, 2020

Road crews in Poland stumbled upon a lost 16th-century cemetery, in which the vast majority of graves belong to children. Incredibly, some of the skeletons still have coins in their mouths, a tradition that dates back to ancient times. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 8, 2020

Indigenous South Americans reached islands in the South Pacific some 300 years before Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas, according to new genetic evidence. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 17, 2020

Evidence of incest and inbreeding has been uncovered at an elite prehistoric Irish burial site, in a new paper that reads like a Game of Thrones subplot. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Four beautifully preserved llamas have been discovered at a ritual sacrifice site in Peru. The llamas, still wearing their colorful adornments, serve as the first archaeological evidence linking the ancient Inca to the practice. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The prehistoric practice of using controlled fires to produce customized stone tools dates back 300,000 years, according to new research. The discovery affirms the cognitive and cultural sophistication of human species living at this time. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 6, 2020

Underwater caves in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have yielded evidence of a prehistoric ochre mine, in a discovery that could explain why the region’s earliest inhabitants ventured so deeply inside this treacherous cave system. Read more.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

But on that relatively anthropological scale of humanity, that’s really fast. So you already have an existing education system that teaches math and science and geography and these kind of transactional skillsets. And that’s like an enormous– for anybody that’s in the VR industry it’s taken forever.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

But on that relatively anthropological scale of humanity, that’s really fast. So you already have an existing education system that teaches math and science and geography and these kind of transactional skillsets. And that’s like an enormous– for anybody that’s in the VR industry it’s taken forever.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

But on that relatively anthropological scale of humanity, that's really fast. So you already have an existing education system that teaches math and science and geography and these kind of transactional skillsets. And that's like an enormous-- for anybody that's in the VR industry it's taken forever.

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