Archaeology

Credit: YANG Dinghua Bioluminescence has fascinated people since time immemorial. The majority of organisms able to produce their own light are beetles, specifically fireflies, glow-worm beetles, and their relatives. While…

A group of international scientists, including an Australian astrophysicist, has used knowhow from gravitational wave astronomy (used to find black holes in space) to study ancient marine fossils as a predictor of climate change.Credit:…

(The Bawmann Group) A human clinical trial with cutting-edge chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T) has begun at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital using cancer fighting cells developed by faculty in the CU School of Medicine and…

Credit: Alison Crowther Indiana Jones and Lara Croft have a lot to answer for. Public perceptions of archaeology are often thoroughly outdated, and these characterisations do little to help. Yet archaeology as practiced…

September 1632 document likely shows the order for the last batch of Japanese wine in the Edo periodCredit: Professor Tsuguharu Inaba Researchers from Kumamoto University (Japan) have found an Edo period document that clearly indicates the…

Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. - Scientists have identified the presence of a non-tobacco plant in ancient Maya drug containers for the first time. The Washington State University researchers detected Mexican marigold (Tagetes…

Credit: Drawing by Tom Bjorklund Roughly 8,200 years ago, the island of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov in Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, housed a large burial ground where men, women and children of varying ages were buried.…

Credit: Virginia Tech Families are complicated. For members of the Alligatoridae family, which includes living caimans and alligators - this is especially true. They are closely related, but because of their similarity, their…

150 million-year-old shark was one of the largest of its timeCredit: © Sebastian Stumpf/Fabrizio De Rossi In a new study, an international research team led by Sebastian Stumpf from the University of Vienna describes an exceptionally…

Extinct dire wolves split off from other wolves nearly six million years ago and were only a distant relative of today's wolves, according to new research published in Nature today (13 January). Dire wolves, made famous in the TV show…

Study reveals that Earth-abundant minerals convert sunlight into chemical energy, hinting at the evolution of photosynthesis in early bacteriaCredit: Earth Science Frontiers Photosynthesis, the process by which plants and other…

Some 11 thousand years ago, Africa's furthest west harbored the last populations to preserve tool-making traditions first established by the earliest members of our speciesCredit: Eleanor Scerri Fieldwork led by Dr Eleanor…

Credit: DePaul University/Kenshu Shimada A new study shows that the gigantic Megalodon or megatooth shark, which lived nearly worldwide roughly 15-3.6 million years ago and reached at least 50 feet (15 meters) in length, gave birth to…

Northeastern Asia has a complex history of migrations and plague outbursts. That is the essence of an international archaeogenetic study published in Science Advances and lead from the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies at…

Most native species are going locally extinct, while introduced tropical species thriveCredit: © Paolo Albano The coastline of Israel is one of the warmest areas in the Mediterranean Sea. Here, most marine species have been at the…

Humans feeding leftover lean meat to wolves during harsh winters may have had a role in the early domestication of dogs, towards the end of the last ice age (14,000 to 29,000 years ago), according to a study published in Scientific…

A new low-cost test for COVID19, how to share cultural expertise to solve conflicts, a way to help develop new medicines to treat blindness, further improvements to a clean energy producing technology - just some examples of how frontier…

~2.0 to 1.8 million year-old archaeological site demonstrates that early humans had the skills and tools to cope with ecological changeCredit: Michael Petraglia Olduvai (now Oldupai) Gorge, known as the Cradle of Humankind, is a UNESCO…

Paleo-tsunami may be the reason previous archaeological surveys found no evidence for low-lying coastal villages in the area over a 4000 year periodCredit: Photo by T. E. Levy Underwater excavation, borehole drilling, and modelling…

Archaeologists from Kuzbass created a 3D model of a part of the Tepsei archaeological site accommodating a dense cluster of prehistoric rock art Archeologists from Kemerovo State University are exploring the Tepsei site of Minusinsk Basin,…