Ancient Beat

ancientbeat.com

Ancient Beat, “James Fleischmann”, is a history site on ancientbeat.com, in English, funded by its readers: about 22 paying supporters on Buy Me a Coffee, estimated.

A weekly Substack newsletter by James Fleischmann summarizing the latest archaeology and ancient history news.

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From the site's feed, read 2026-10-15.

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161 pages indexed; the pages that lead the site by its internal links:

🧐 Ancient Beat #200: Ancient fossil collectors, shared Neanderthal/sapiens cultures, and the fall of the megalith builders

https://ancientbeat.com/p/ancient-beat-200-ancient-fossil-collectors?open=false

🧐 Ancient Beat #44: A new silk road, kissing cousins, and the oldest rune stone

https://ancientbeat.com/p/ancient-beat-44-a-new-silk-road-kissing?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share

🧐 Ancient Beat #61: Biome diversity, a 45-foot petroglyph, and the world's oldest (precise) blueprints

https://ancientbeat.com/p/ancient-beat-61-biome-diversity-a?open=false

🧐 Ancient Beat #65: Screeching bird flutes, ancient hydraulic engineering, and redating the "Out of Africa" theory

https://ancientbeat.com/p/ancient-beat-65-screeching-bird-flutes

🧐 Ancient Beat #121: Glyphs, hobbits, and Stonehenge's Altar Stone

https://ancientbeat.com/p/ancient-beat-121-glyphs-hobbits-and?open=false

🧐 Ancient Beat #75: Mysterious passages, painted gatherings, and archaic human love

https://ancientbeat.com/p/ancient-beat-75-mysterious-passages?open=false

🧐 Ancient Beat #58: Rethinking hunting and gathering, the Maya calendar, and the end of the Indus Valley civilization

https://ancientbeat.com/p/ancient-beat-58-rethinking-hunting

🧐 Ancient Beat #63: Neanderthal chemists, the oldest Homo sapiens footprint, and pushing back the dawn of Greek archaeology

https://ancientbeat.com/p/ancient-beat-63-neanderthal-chemists

🧐 Ancient Beat #66: "Stonehenge of the Netherlands", the oldest Neanderthal engravings, and a newly discovered Maya city

https://ancientbeat.com/p/ancient-beat-66-stonehenge-of-the?open=false

🎄 Ancient Beat #177: Huge undersea walls, new hominins, and the Indus Valley collapse

https://ancientbeat.com/p/ancient-beat-177-huge-undersea-walls

🧐 Ancient Beat #69: Giant ground sloth pendants, decoding the unknown Kushan script, and pushing back the peopling of the Americas (again)

https://ancientbeat.com/p/ancient-beat-69-giant-ground-sloth

🧐 Ancient Beat #55: Hallucinogens, hunter-gatherer economies, and a currency that became art

https://ancientbeat.com/p/ancient-beat-55-hallucinogens-hunter

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category historylang enrank 13629 of 96853paying 22 Buy Me a Coffeerevenue / yr not publishedweight from an estimated supporter count

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substack https://ancientbeat.com/subscribeverified 2026-08-30
substack https://ancientbeat.substack.com/subscribeverified 2026-09-08

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