Archaeology

Big data analyses suggest that moralizing gods are rather the product than the drivers of social complexityCredit: (c) the authors of the paper (Vienna, March 20, 2019) An international research team, including a member of the Complexity…

The work, published in Nature, confirms a dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migrationCredit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckli RESEARCHERS from the…

Credit: Barbara Marrs A team of scientists led by Alida Bailleul and Jingmai O'Connor from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the first fossil bird ever…

The first farmers from Anatolia, who brought farming to Europe and represent the single largest ancestral component in modern-day Europeans, are directly descended from local hunter-gatherers who adopted a farming way of lifeCredit: Max…

Credit: David Mearns Guinness World Records have independently certified an astrolabe excavated from the wreck site of a Portuguese Armada Ship that was part of Vasco da Gama's second voyage to India in 1502-1503 as the oldest in…

The largest-ever study of ancient DNA from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) suggests that the Iberian male lineages were almost completely replaced between 4,500 and 4,000 years ago by newcomers originating on the Russian…

Two studies, one looking at Iberian hunter-gatherers between 13,000 and 6,000 years ago and another looking at Iberian populations over the last 8000 years, add new resolution to our understanding of the history and prehistory of the…

Diet-induced changes in the human bite resulted in new sounds such as "f" in languages all over the world, a study by an international team led by researchers at the University of Zurich has shown. The findings contradict the theory that…

Researchers used an interdisciplinary approach combining ecology and archaeological methods to study sea otters' past behaviorCredit: Natalie Uomini. Haslam et al. 2019. Wild sea otter mussel pounding leaves archaeological traces.…

Professor Stefan Williams has been recognized by the IEEECredit: Lachlan Toohey/University of Sydney With a career focused on robotics and mapping ocean floor habitats, Head of Aerospace, Mechatronic and Mechanical Engineering Professor…