Dishing the dirt on human evolution: Why scientific techniques matter in archaeology
Scientists should seek answers hidden in the dirt using proven and state-of-the-art archaeological science techniques to support new discoveries about ...
Tag: Archaeology
Archaeology: Larger-scale warfare may have occurred in Europe 1,000 years earlier
A re-analysis of more than 300 sets of 5,000-year-old skeletal remains excavated from a site in Spain suggests that many ...
Genomics and archaeology rewrite the Neolithic Revolution in the Maghreb
For decades Archaeology has been trying to explain how and why humans went from being exclusively hunter-gatherers to producing food, ...
Archaeology project to examine fortress community resilience in the transition from the Bronze to Iron Age
A Cranfield University-led project excavating a fortress site in southern Georgia aims to uncover why communities in this area were ...
People of color have been largely underrepresented among authors published in the American Journal of Archaeology
A new demographic survey of authorship in the American Journal of Archaeology (AJA) reveals that people of color have been largely underrepresented among ...
Ancient DNA research projects nominated for top archaeology award
A PROJECT involving an international team led by researchers at the University of Huddersfield, which used ancient DNA to rewrite ...
Archaeology: Modern pesticide accelerates corrosion of ancient Roman bowl
A corroded Roman bowl dated to the Late Iron Age (between 43 and 410 AD) contains traces of chlorobenzenes, a ...
DIY digital archaeology: New methods for visualizing small objects and artifacts
The ability to visually represent artefacts, whether inorganics like stone, ceramic and metal, or organics such as bone and plant ...
Season 4 of the SAPIENS Podcast explores how Black and Indigenous voices are changing the stories archaeology tells
Season 4 of the SAPIENS Podcast explores how Black and Indigenous voices are changing the stories archaeology tells. Searching for ...
The UC3M creates a digital public archaeology laboratory
Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have created an open archaeological laboratory which aims to integrate a ...
Archaeology: Earliest evidence of humans decorating jewellery in Eurasia
A decorated, oval-shaped ivory pendant made from mammoth bone, dated to 41,500 years ago, represents the earliest known example of ...
Research ‘final nail in the coffin’ of Paranthropus as hard object feeders
Long-held eating habits beliefs debunked New research from the University of Otago debunks a long-held belief about our ancestors' eating ...
Archaeology: Roman road discovered in the Venice lagoon
The discovery of a Roman road submerged in the Venice Lagoon is reported in Scientific Reports this week. The findings ...
Why weren’t New World rabbits domesticated?
Archaeologists find the answer in rabbit social behaviorCredit: Nawa Sugiyama/UCR Domesticated rabbits come in all sizes and colors, including tiny ...
Using archeology to better understand climate change
Throughout history, people of different cultures and stages of evolution have found ways to adapt, with varying success, to the ...
An archaeological study reveals new aspects related to plant processing in a Neolithic settlement in Turkey
Researchers have discovered at the site of Çatalhöyük (Anatolia, Turkey) a wide variety of hitherto unknown wild resources.Credit: UPF A ...
Study highlights need to replace ‘ancestry’ in forensics with something more accurate
Credit: Marc Hall, NC State University A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in ...
DNA from 1,600-year-old Iranian sheep mummy brings history to life
Credit: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, Archaeological Museum of Zanjan. A team of geneticists and archaeologists from ...
Resilience, not collapse: What the Easter Island myth gets wrong
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the ...
Human environmental genome recovered in the absence of skeletal remains
Credit: © Anna Belfer-Cohen The cave of Satsurblia was inhabited by humans in different periods of the Paleolithic: Up to ...
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Meteorites likely source of nitrogen for early Earth
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‘Shocking’ discovery: Electricity from electric eels may transfer genetic material to nearby animals
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Scientists build tiny biological robots from human cells
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Elham Azizi vs. cancer: Fighting the disease with data, AI, and math
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New study identifies the greatest threat to wildlife across North America and Canada: people
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Pregnant women are missing vital nutrients needed for them and their babies – and situation could worsen with plant-based foods