Oldest Viking Settlement in Iceland Shouldn't Have Existed At That Time - Mysterious Universe

Anomalous archaeological results often rewrite traditional history and prehistory. Jocelyne LeBlanc tells how a surprising find pushes back the arrival of Vikings in Iceland several decades. Then there's The Mysterious Ancient Chamber of Golden Balls Found by a Robot in Mexico. Brent Swancer's account aptly illustrates his observation "we usually seem to dig up more questions than answers." While the two previous surprises came from formal archaeological investigations, journalist Ingrid Spilde begins the next case with "The whole story starts with a farmer" who drained a wetland to open up new cultivation. The result: Archaeologists Have Found Astonishingly Well-preserved Gear from a Fisherman Who Lived 5,000 Years Ago. What was going on there 50 centuries back the archaeological record almost never offers. Perhaps the greatest shock comes from Tessa Koumoundouros' story that New DNA Analysis Reveals Ancient Scythian Warrior Was a 13-Year-Old Girl. A new study not only reversed the sex of the formerly "male" owner, but may firmly establish that Herodotus' story about the Amazons wasn't fictional. The fifth century BCE Herodotus of Halicarnassus is known as "The Father of History," and probably was the most fun of all historians to boot, largely because of wild tales including the Amazons, fierce women who fought and then intermarried with the Scythians. After Herodotus the Amazons were regarded as just a myth, but finds beginning in the 1990s had challenged that assumption and this very young Amazon warrior's burial may end the debate. (WM)

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