Tag: Archaeology

Credit: The 'Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change project'. New research has revealed the genetic makeup of the earliest goat herds. ...

Study points to a history of indigenous sustainable use of the Western Amazon stretching back 5,000 yearsCredit: Álvaro del Campo ...

Credit: Julia Best Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than their modern equivalents because they were seen as sacred - not ...

Probably the find is the only evidence in the world that ancient people hunted Pleistocene small cave bearsCredit: UrFU / ...

Credit: Prof. Martin Trauth, University of Potsdam While it is widely accepted that climate change drove the evolution of our ...

Credit: Mao et al., 2021 A study led by research groups of Prof. FU Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate ...

Credit: NIGPAS Flowering plants (angiosperms) dominate most terrestrial ecosystems, providing the bulk of human food. However, their origin has been ...

Researchers use fossil data to reveal the primary drivers and extent of colonial era extinctionsCredit: Photo by Omkar Vinchu from ...

Credit: Raül Soteras, AgriChange Project Fields of opium poppies once bloomed where the Zurich Opera House underground garage now stands. ...

Credit: Pavlik et al. (2021) PNAS Indigenous people have lived in the Bears Ears region of southeastern Utah for millennia. ...

Credit: Chris Downum Archaeologists at Northern Arizona University are hoping a new technology they helped pioneer will change the way ...

Credit: UM photo by Tommy Martino MISSOULA - Only an anthropologist would treasure millennia-old human feces found in dry caves. ...

Credit: Dorling Kindersley Anyone who's raised a child or a pet will know just how fast and how steady their ...

Credit: (© Sebastian Stumpf) This rare fossil find comes from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in England, a series of sedimentary ...

Findings on Neanderthal oral microbiomes offer new clues on evolution, healthCredit: Katerina Guschanski A new study looking at the evolutionary ...

Study designed at the University of Oregon provided a foundation that drew new information from lidar imagery, machine learning, archaeological ...

With a living descendant's DNA sample, a team of researchers have identified the remains of John Gregory, engineer aboard HMS ...

Giant cat roamed North America 5-9 million years agoCredit: Photo courtesy of John Orcutt COLUMBUS, Ohio - A giant saber-toothed ...

Study Finds Parasites in Fecal Samples from the 1830s-1840s in Privy on Dartmouth's CampusCredit: Images by Theresa Gildner. In the ...

Uranium-series dating shows South African midden is world's oldestCredit: Image courtesy of E. Niespolo. Archeologists have learned a lot about ...