Giant teenage shark from the Dinosaur-era
Fossil vertebrae give insights into growth and extinction of an enigmatic shark groupCredit: © Patrick L. Jambura In 1996, palaeontologists ...
Tag: Archaeology
Neolithic genomes from modern-day Switzerland indicate parallel ancient societies
Genetic analysis of 96 ancient individuals traces the arrival and demographic structure of peoples with Steppe-related ancestry into late Neolithic, ...
The origin of feces: coproID reliably predicts sources of ancient poop
New method of discerning sources of ancient feces makes this archaeological find far more informativeCredit: Jada Ko, courtesy of the ...
Milk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago
Credit: Oliver Rudd When you pour a bowl of cereal, you probably aren't considering how humans came to enjoy milk ...
Earliest humans in the Amazon created thousands of ‘forest islands’ as they tamed wild plants
Credit: Umberto Lombardo The earliest human inhabitants of the Amazon created thousands of artificial forest islands as they tamed wild ...
Amazonian crops domesticated 10,000 years ago
Credit: José Capriles, Penn State As agriculture emerged in early civilizations, crops were domesticated in four locations around the world ...
Adelphi researcher discovers early, complex brain surgery in ancient Greece
One of the earliest documented, from ProtoByzantine periodCredit: Anagnostis P. Agelarakis/Adelphi University New research from Adelphi University has revealed the ...
Tooth be told: Earless seals existed in ancient Australia
Credit: James Rule A fossilised seal tooth found on a Victorian beach could hold the key to uncovering the history ...
When three species of human ancestor walked the Earth
Credit: Angeline Leece. An international team, including Arizona State University researcher Gary Schwartz, have unearthed the earliest known skull of ...
Well-engineered ‘watercourts’ stored live fish, fueling Florida’s Calusa kingdom
Credit: Merald Clark/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The mighty Calusa ruled South Florida for centuries, wielding military power, trading and ...
Aboriginal scars from frontier wars
Legacy of Australian colonial Native Mounted Police forceCredit: Flinders University Hundreds of Aboriginal men who became native mounted police in ...
‘Little Foot’ skull reveals how this more than 3 million year old human ancestor lived
Micro-CT scanning of 'Little Foot' skull reveals new aspects of the life of this more than 3-million year-old-human ancestorCredit: Amélie ...
Unraveling the puzzle of Madagascar’s forest cats
Credit: Michelle Sauther In her 30 years working as a researcher in Madagascar, CU Boulder Anthropology Professor Michelle Sauther has ...
Ancient mantis-man petroglyph discovered in Iran
Credit: Dr. Mohammad Naserifard A unique rock carving found in the Teymareh rock art site (Khomein county) in Central Iran ...
Sticky tape: A key ingredient for mapping artifact origins
Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science in Japan have demonstrated that combining a highly sensitive ...
Your back pain may be due to evolution and spine shape
Credit: Simon Fraser University The cause of back pain can be linked to humanity's evolutionary past, according to new research ...
How millets sustained Mongolia’s empires
Stable isotope analyses reveals dramatic diet diversification at the onset of the steppe's earliest empiresCredit: Alicia Ventresca Miller The historic ...
5,000-year-old milk proteins point to the importance of dairying in eastern Eurasia
Recent findings push back estimates of dairying in the eastern Steppe by more than 1,700 years, pointing to migration as ...
Each Mediterranean island has its own genetic pattern
Researchers reconstruct migration movements through ancient DNACredit: © David Caramelli The Mediterranean Sea has been a major route for maritime ...
Ancient DNA from Sardinia reveals 6,000 years of genetic history
Analysis of ancient DNA details the population history of Sardinia, providing new insight into its unique history and ancestral connections ...
