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 ...
Tag: Archaeology
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 ...
Ancient ostrich eggshell reveals new evidence of extreme climate change thousands of years ago
Credit: Philip Kiberd Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced by ...
Climate changed the size of our bodies and, to some extent, our brains
Credit: Manuel Will The average body size of humans has fluctuated significantly over the last million years and is strongly ...
New iguanodon-like dinosaur identified from jawbone fossil from Spain
Credit: Santos-Cubedo et al, 2021, PLOS ONE (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) New iguanodon-like dinosaur identified from jawbone fossil from Spain was ...
Ancient Islamic tombs cluster like galaxies
Statistical methods designed for cosmology reveal tomb distribution in Sudan over millennia governed by environment and social factorsCredit: Stefano Costanzo ...
Neanderthal artists? Our ancestors decorated bones over 50,000 years ago
Discovery from Unicorn Cave in Lower Saxony sheds new light on ancestors' cognitive abilitiesCredit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EHH-Wiki001_C_GUfeV.JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0) Since the ...
Canine faeces reveal more about 17th century working sled dogs
Canine faeces reveal more about 17th century working sled dogsCredit: Credit:Katharina Dulias Embargoed until 00.01 (BST) Wednesday 07 July 2021 ...
CWRU receives $1.2M W.M. Keck Foundation grant to determine ecological factors affect the evolution of our ancestors
Professor Beverly Saylor leads interdisciplinary global group applying state-of-the art technology to answer ancient questionsCredit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND, ...
Scientists warn on the harmful implications of losing Indigenous and local knowledge systems
The study has been published in the Journal of EthnobiologyCredit: Joan de la Malla Five Simon Fraser University scholars are ...
New species of pseudo-horses living 37 million years ago
Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country describe two palaeotheriidae mammals that lived in the subtropical landscape of AlavaCredit: ...
Wallonia as an international reference for the timeline
Paleontologists from Univeristy of Liège (Belgium) redefine the geological boundary between the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. A Walloon site could ...
How can ‘shark dandruff’ contribute to coral reef conservation?
Credit: STRI For 400 million years, shark-like fishes have prowled the oceans as predators, but now humans kill 100 million ...
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Dual action: RNA binding protein also binds DNA and acts as a damage sensor across the genome
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‘Stealth transmission’ fuels fast spread of coronavirus outbreak
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Adding SNAP benefits for older adults in Medicare, Medicaid can reduce hospital visits, healthcare costs
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Wiggling worms suggest link between vitamin B12 and Alzheimer’s
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Metabolism changes with age, just not when you might think