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 ...
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Researcher questions whether powered flight appeared on non-avialan dinosaurs
Francisco Serrano, from University of Malaga, refutes this conclusion published in 2020 in the absence of scientific evidenceCredit: F.J. Serrano. ...
Fat-footed tyrannosaur parents could not keep up with their skinnier adolescent offspring
Credit: Vitor Silva New research by the University of New England's Palaeoscience Research Centre suggests juvenile tyrannosaurs were slenderer and ...
Early Neolithic farmers modified the reproductive cycle of sheep
Over 7,500 years ago early farmers set down the foundations of livestock strategies that persist todayCredit: Alejandro Sierra The results, ...
Cracking the code of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Artificial Intelligence tools enable researchers to 'shake hands' with ancient scribesCredit: Maruf A. Dhali, University of Groningen The Dead Sea ...
New results about the diets of people who lived on the Great Hungarian Plain
A transdisciplinary study of the dietary evolution of the first agricultural and pastoral communities in Central EuropeCredit: Photo credit: Marina ...
Human land use wasn’t always at nature’s expense
Credit: Ganta Srinivas Nearly three-quarters of Earth's land had been transformed by humans by 10,000BC, but new research shows it ...
Archaeological data demand new approaches to biodiversity conservation
Credit: Erle Ellis Professor Nicole Boivin, Director of the Department of Archaeology at the Max Planck Institute for the Science ...
Stone Age black bears didn’t just defecate in the woods – they did it in a cave too
Scientists have sequenced ancient DNA from soil for the first time and the advance will transform what is known about ...
3500 year-old honeypot: Oldest direct evidence for honey collecting in Africa
Scientists at Goethe University and University of Bristol (UK) find traces of beeswax in prehistoric pottery of the West African ...
Revealing the routes of the Hanseatic era online
Research team led by University of Göttingen reconstructs late medieval trade routes digitallyCredit: www.viabundus.eu The Hanseatic League was a confederation ...
New evidence regarding emerald production in Roman Egypt coming from Wadi Sikait
Resuming the archaeological season in the Egyptian Eastern Desert provides proof of Roman emerald minesCredit: Authors "New evidence of the ...
Indigenous land-use reduced catastrophic wildfires on the Fish Lake Plateau
Credit: S. Yoshi Maezumi If you were to visit the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau a thousand years ago, you'd ...
Study cements age and location of hotly debated skull from early human Homo erectus
Scientists also find two new, nearly 2-million-year-old specimens--likely the earliest pieces of the H. erectus skeleton yet discoveredCredit: A. Hammond/© ...
Scientists uncover the last meal of a cretaceous pollinator
Credit: NIGPAS While pollinators such as bees and butterflies provide crucial ecosystem services today, little is known about the origin ...
Scientists discover two new species of ancient, burrowing mammal ancestors
120-million-year-old animals evolved 'scratch digging' traits independentlyCredit: MAO Fangyuan A joint research team led by Dr. MAO Fangyuan and Dr. ...
Neanderthal ancestry identifies oldest modern human genome
The fossil skull of a woman in Czechia has provided the oldest modern human genome yet reconstructed, representing a population ...
800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary practices
Credit: Pam Manix A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, with archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology, have found ...
Humans were apex predators for two million years
What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meatCredit: Dr. Miki Ben Dor Researchers at Tel Aviv University ...
Paleopharmaceuticals from Baltic amber might fight drug-resistant infections
Credit: Connor McDermott WASHINGTON, April 5, 2021 -- For centuries, people in Baltic nations have used ancient amber for medicinal ...
