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A research team from the University of Bern has for the first time accurately dated the pile dwellings on the shores of Lake Ohrid in the southwestern Balkans:they emerged in the middle of the 5th millennium BC. The region surrounding the oldest lake in Europe played a key role in the proliferation
Analysis of a 1,000-year-old ritual pouch discovered in Bolivia has revealed traces of psychotropic substances, including the main ingredients of a powerful hallucinogenic drug consumed by the ancient inhabitants of the Andes. La Cueva del Chileno, in Bolivia, where the psychotropic drug pouch wa
150 Iron Age skeletons have been unearthed near the village of Pocklington in the eastern county of Yorkshire in northern England. 2nd Iron Age spearhead (425-25 BC) from warrior tomb of Pocklington Cemetery, Yorkshire, England. NECROPOLIS. Buried for 2,500 years with spearheads and swords by thei
On both sides of the Pyrenees, in an area that goes from Andorra to the Bay of Biscay, there are more than 1,400 megalithic monuments, cromlechs and menhirs. Also called harrespil (circle of stones) in Basque, it is a unique set of cromlechs with no equivalent in the rest of the Iberian Peninsula a