Swiss farmers contributed to the domestication of the opium poppy
Credit: Raül Soteras, AgriChange Project Fields of opium poppies once bloomed where the Zurich Opera House underground garage now stands. ...
Tag: Archaeology
Indigenous co-management essential for protecting, restoring Bears Ears region
Credit: Pavlik et al. (2021) PNAS Indigenous people have lived in the Bears Ears region of southeastern Utah for millennia. ...
Archaeologists teach computers to sort ancient pottery
Credit: Chris Downum Archaeologists at Northern Arizona University are hoping a new technology they helped pioneer will change the way ...
Research reveals ancient people had more diverse gut microorganisms
Credit: UM photo by Tommy Martino MISSOULA - Only an anthropologist would treasure millennia-old human feces found in dry caves. ...
Southern African dinosaur had irregular growth
Credit: Dorling Kindersley Anyone who's raised a child or a pet will know just how fast and how steady their ...
New ancient shark discovered
Credit: (© Sebastian Stumpf) This rare fossil find comes from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in England, a series of sedimentary ...
Turns out developing a taste for carbs wasn’t a bad thing
Findings on Neanderthal oral microbiomes offer new clues on evolution, healthCredit: Katerina Guschanski A new study looking at the evolutionary ...
Archaeologists pinpoint population for the Greater Angkor region
Study designed at the University of Oregon provided a foundation that drew new information from lidar imagery, machine learning, archaeological ...
First member of ill-fated 1845 Franklin expedition is identified by DNA analysis
With a living descendant's DNA sample, a team of researchers have identified the remains of John Gregory, engineer aboard HMS ...
Newly identified saber-toothed cat is one of largest in history
Giant cat roamed North America 5-9 million years agoCredit: Photo courtesy of John Orcutt COLUMBUS, Ohio - A giant saber-toothed ...
200-year old poop shows rural elites in New England had parasitic infections
Study Finds Parasites in Fecal Samples from the 1830s-1840s in Privy on Dartmouth's CampusCredit: Images by Theresa Gildner. In the ...
Cancer rates in medieval Britain around ten times higher than previously thought, study suggests
Credit: Jenna Dittmar The first study to use x-rays and CT scans to detect evidence of cancer among the skeletal ...
Discarded ostrich shells provide timeline for our early African ancestors
Uranium-series dating shows South African midden is world's oldestCredit: Image courtesy of E. Niespolo. Archeologists have learned a lot about ...
First Australian populations followed footpath ‘superhighways’ across the continent
Credit: Megan Hotchkiss Davidson/Sandia National Laboratories The best path across the desert is rarely the straightest. For the first human ...