Archaeology

Credit: IVPP Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a new species of sandgrouse in six to nine million-year-old rocks in Gansu Province…

New research adds to growing evidence that our ancestors interbred with Neanderthals at multiple times in history BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In recent years, scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans and Neanderthals share a tangled…

Three-million-year-old brain imprints show that Australopithecus afarensis infants may have had a long dependence on caregiversCredit: Philipp Gunz, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The species Australopithecus afarensis inhabited East Africa more than…

This rare case of an immature fossil hominin sheds light on the evolution of human developmentCredit: Bolter et al. PLOS ONE 2020 (CC BY) A partial skeleton of Homo naledi represents a rare case of an immature individual, shedding…

Credit: Prof. José María Bermúdez de Castro Genetic information from an 800.000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results from the University of Copenhagen shed light on one of the branching points in the…

Researchers have found unexpected fossil traces of a temperate rainforest near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the continent had an exceptionally warm climate in prehistoric timesCredit: AWI/Bremen Researchers…

Spanish conquerors depended on indigenous expertise to keep up their munitions supplies, archaeologists have found. When Spanish invaders arrived in the Americas, they were generally able to subjugate the local peoples thanks, in part, to…

Credit: Merald Clark/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The mighty Calusa ruled South Florida for centuries, wielding military power, trading and collecting tribute along routes that sprawled hundreds of miles, creating shell islands,…

A new study led by the University of Kent has found evidence that human ancestors as recent as two million years ago may have regularly climbed trees. Walking on two legs has long been a defining feature to differentiate modern humans,…

Research led by the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research has anchored a long sequence of tree rings, providing context for the civilizations that existed throughout the Bronze and Iron Ages Charlotte Pearson's eyes…

International research team with participation from University of Göttingen find it wasn't just Homo sapiens who sourced food from the sea -- impact on cognitive abilities suspectedCredit: João Zilhão Over 80,000 years ago, Neanderthals…

Credit: José Paulo Ruas © João Zilhão The journal Science has published a study led by the ICREA researcher João Zilhão, from the University of Barcelona, which presents the results of the excavation in Cueva de Figueira Brava, Portugal,…

Credit: A-C M. Nabais, D Antunes et al. 2000, E. J. P. Ruas Neanderthals slurping seashells by the seashore? This scene may startle those accustomed to imagining Homo neanderthalensis as a people of cold climes who hunted large…

Emergence of a Neolithic in highland New Guinea by 5,000 to 4,000 years ago New artifacts uncovered at the Waim archaeological site in the highlands of New Guinea - including a fragment of the earliest symbolic stone carving in Oceania -…

The four-volume collection is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive examination of violence from prehistory to the presentCredit: Cambridge University Press The Cambridge World History of Violence will be published by Cambridge…

ITHACA, N.Y. - New Cornell University research is producing a more accurate historical timeline for the occupation of Native American sites in upstate New York, based on radiocarbon dating of organic materials and statistical modeling.…

Fish-eating pterosaurs with wingspans of up to 13 feet soared and snatched prey, Baylor University researcher says Three new species of toothed pterosaurs -- flying reptiles of the Cretaceous period, some 100 million years ago -- have been…

(The Yates Network) Organs-on-Chips technology has entered the mainstream with a lab-ready platform that has reached 150 installations, including 10 of the top 25 biopharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and academic research…

ITHACA, N.Y. - Radiocarbon dating, invented in the late 1940s and improved ever since to provide more precise measurements, is the standard method for determining the dates of artifacts in archaeology and other disciplines. "If it's…

Who in the Middle Ages cooked their dinner in copper pots? And where did they do it? Such information can be revealed by chemical analyzes of human bones. Clay pots? Wooden spoons? Copper pots? Silver forks? What materials has man used for…