Drone survey reveals large earthwork at ancestral Wichita site in Kansas
Results show possible council circle at what may be Etzanoa near WichitaCredit: Images by Jesse Casana, Elise Jakoby Laugier, and ...
Tag: New World
True size of prehistoric mega-shark finally revealed
A new study led by the University of Bristol and Swansea University has revealed the size of the legendary giant ...
Evidence of hibernation-like state in Antarctic animal
Researchers discover Fossil evidence of 'hibernation-like' state in tusks of 250-million-year-old Antarctic animalCredit: Crystal Shin Among the many winter survival ...
200 000 years ago, humans preferred to kip cozy
Humans prepared beds to sleep on right at the dawn of our species -- over 200 000 years agoCredit: A. ...
Australian Indigenous banana cultivation found to go back over 2,000 years
Findings help dispel the view that Australia's first peoples were 'only hunter gatherers'Credit: ANU Archaeologists at The Australian National University ...
Oldest South American fossil lizard discovered in Brazil
The animal was approximately 10 cm long and lived more than 130 million years ago in what is now the ...
Lead white pigments on Andean drinking vessels provide new historical context
Isotope analysis suggest clues to the manufacture and distribution of qerosCredit: Alyson Thibodeau (Carlisle, Pa.) - Researchers studying lead white ...
Breakthrough in studying ancient DNA from Doggerland that separates the UK from Europe
Credit: Dr Martin Bates, UWTSD Thousands of years ago the UK was physically joined to the rest of Europe through ...
Innovation by ancient farmers adds to biodiversity of the Amazon, study shows
Credit: Ben Hur Marimon Junior Innovation by ancient farmers to improve soil fertility continues to have an impact on the ...
Information technology played key role in growth of ancient civilizations
Credit: WSU When it comes to the great civilizations of human history, the pen really might have been mightier than ...
Madagascar copal: New dating for an Antropocene ancient resin
This material is not a semi-fossilized resinCredit: Xavier Delclòs (UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA-IRBio) The known Madagascar copal is a more recent ...
Cahokia’s rise parallels onset of corn agriculture
Credit: Graphic by Diana Yates CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Corn cultivation spread from Mesoamerica to what is now the American Southwest ...
African skeletons from early colonial Mexico tell the story of first-generation slaves
An interdisciplinary study into the origins and health status of three African skeletons unearthed in Mexico shows evidence of forced ...
The story of three African slaves during Spanish colonialism, as told by their bones
Credit: Collection: San José de los Naturales, Post Graduate Studies Osteology Laboratory, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia Photo: Rodrigo ...