At https://www.iflscience.com/engraved-bone-of-prehistoric-bear-is-the-oldest-example-of-neanderthal-culture-73884/ … in this we are back to the last Interglacial Period with a date between 115,000 and 130,000 years ago. It involves a cave in Poland. A bear bone has been found in debris, that also had lots of other bear bones that display evidence of butchering, on the cave floor. The bear bone in question has a series of markings which appear to have been deliberately etched. Hence, the date tells us this was done by Neanderthals. It represents evidence of their cognitive abilities. However, it was first lumped in with other bear bones extracted from the debris and sediment but was kept aside. Now, it has been re-analysed using microscopy and X-ray computed tomography. The authors of a new study have presented us with an updated view. The markings on the bone are ordered – and do not resemble traces associated with butchering. Neither do they appear accidental in their ordering. They may actually be some kind of notation – or simply a decorative pattern. However, they do appear to be purposely etched.
At https://phys.org/news/2024-04-stonehenge-aligned-moon-sun.html … the title of this piece says Stonehenge may have been aligned with the moon as well as the sun. Other people were saying this years ago – and were criticised by archaeologists or accused of seeing things that were not there. Good archaeology was rubbished simply because it invoked astronomical alignments. It seems stone circles are being resurrected from the dead after the rift with Alexander Thom is now safely tucked away into the last generation of archaeologists. It concerns the four station stones forming a rectangle. Two are missing but their holes are still there. The longer sides align with the major lunar standstill – just as it was theorised all those years ago. Over in the US, the Great House of Chimney Rock, a multi level complex built by the Pueblo people, has the moon rising between two natural stone pillars. Archaeologists, we are told, are thinking in terms of the first construction phase at Stonehenge, around 3000BC. It involved the major moon standstill – for a reason as yet unknown. Now that is a whole lot better than just ignoring or criticising such ideas. I’m sure it wasn’t painful, either.
At https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126.sciadv.adl3374 … human sacrifice in the early Neolithic in Europe – especially around 4250BC. Ritual strangulation in a rather macabre manner. There were psychopaths back in those days.
At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240417182745.htm … evidence of human occupation of a lava tube in Saudi Arabia – at Umm Jirsan