Archaeology
Falling Yangtze water levels opened new land and guided prehistoric settlement
A multi-proxy study of the Xuecheng site shows that declining water levels in the Lower Yangtze progressively created new habitable...
Ice Age Spear Points Show How the First Americans Learned to Master a New Land
A study of nearly 500 Clovis and Cumberland spear points from the Tennessee River Valley shows that tool maintenance and...
Ancient Beads and Shells Reveal Early Modern Humans’ Symbolic World in Iberia
A comprehensive analysis of personal ornaments from Foradada cave sheds new light on the technological skill and social networks of...
Why the Odyssey Still Captivates: A New Study Traces a Myth Across Three Millennia
A Universidad Carlos III de Madrid study contrasts the fiction of Homer's Odyssey with Mediterranean archaeological evidence and traces how...
Ancient Kidney Stone Reveals Hidden Infection in a Bronze Age Man
A calcified stone from a 5,300-year-old burial in the North Caucasus has been identified as a urinary stone of infectious...
New Fossil Trove Pushes Back the Dawn of Homo erectus by 200,000 Years
Eighteen newly described fossils from South Africa's Drimolen Main Quarry confirm that Homo erectus first appeared two million years ago,...
Ancient Carnelian Beads in Thailand Traced to Indian Deccan Traps by Laser Geochemistry
Laser ablation geochemistry shows that carnelian beads from Iron Age Central Thailand were imported, first from India's Deccan Traps and...
Bronze Age Herders in Uzbekistan Fed Cattle on Millet, Isotopes Reveal
Stable isotope analysis of animal bones from the Bronze Age site of Kattabulak in southern Uzbekistan reveals free-grazing sheep, goats...
Pompeii Eruption Gives Scientists a Precise New Clock for Dating Earth’s History
Scientists have used the historically documented date of the Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii to recalibrate argon-argon dating and halve...
Strontium Isotopes Reveal Who Moved Through Bronze Age Greece
Strontium isotope analysis of 199 Bronze Age skeletons from central and southern Greece shows that five to ten percent of...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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