Tag: Old World

Credit: Emmanuel Mellet & Francesco d'Errico Long before Lascaux paintings, humans engraved abstract motifs on stones, shells or egg shells. ...

The role of diet in climate change The question of how to best adapt to extreme climate is a critical ...

Archaeologists working in two Italian caves have discovered some of the earliest known examples of ancient humans using an adhesive ...

Modelling reveals First Australians arrived in large groups using complex technologiesCredit: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity ...

New study proves some of Earth's oldest animals could take tripsCredit: Scott Evans / UCR New UC Riverside-led research settles ...

LSU College of the Coast & Environment Distinguished Professor Emeritus John Day has collaborated with archeologists on a new analysis ...

Çatalhöyük had overcrowding, violence, environmental troublesCredit: Scott Haddow COLUMBUS, Ohio - Some 9,000 years ago, residents of one of the ...

Credit: Anna Wessman 2019 During the Iron Age around 300 AD something extraordinary was initiated in Levänluhta area in Isokyrö, ...

Researchers from the University of Seville have published an ambitious study of gender inequality in prehistoric Iberia Researchers from the ...

Credit: I. Reese and A. R. Ventresca Miller, 2017 A meta-analysis of dietary information recorded in the bones of ancient ...

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 ...

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

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