Tag: Archaeology

Credit: Image: ANU ANU and Uni of Melbourne Archaeologists have discovered 15 new sites in Laos containing more than one ...

Unique method finds two-toed sloths are last members of 'extinct' ancient familyCredit: Illustration by Jorge Blanco Sloths once roamed the ...

Analysis of 8 new plague genomes from the first plague pandemic reveals previously unknown levels of plague diversity, and provides ...

Research carried out by the University of Kent has found differences between the knuckle joints of primates that will enable ...

Apples originally evolved in the wild to entice ancient megafauna to disperse their seeds; more recently, humans began spreading the ...

Israeli scientists resurrect yeast from ancient beer jugs to recreate 5,000-year-old brewCredit: Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority. What kind of beer ...

San Francisco, CA., May 22, 2019---PLOS today announced that all its journals will offer authors the option to publish their ...

(Thomas Jefferson University) The discovery highlights alternative treatment options to pharmaceutical medications.

Early human beings who lived around 120,000 years ago in South Africa were 'ecological geniuses' who were able to exploit ...

Credit: Per Persson/Stockholm University The first humans who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years ago left their DNA behind ...

Using multiple methods of analysis, researchers have identified the movements of a group of humans as they explored an Italian ...

The way humans use land across the British Isles has changed beyond recognition during the past 8,000 years. But what ...

Differences in numbers of vertebrae are most extreme in mammals which do not rely on running and leaping, such as ...

Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The human environmental footprint is not only deep, but old. ...