Tag: Old World

Credit: David Mearns Guinness World Records have independently certified an astrolabe excavated from the wreck site of a Portuguese Armada ...

The findings, published in Science, show an invasion of steppe descendants who replaced almost all men 4,000 years ago Published ...

The largest-ever study of ancient DNA from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) suggests that the Iberian male lineages were ...

An exceptional milestone in European Palaeolithic rock artCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA It is not very common to find representations of ...

A study analyzes the selective attention processes that determine how we explore and interact with our environmentCredit: CSIC Researchers examined ...

Credit: IOZ A team of scientists led by Prof. LI Ming of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

It is often remarked that 'dogs look like their owners'; might there be more to the assertion than believed? A ...

Credit: J. A. Peñas In the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, between the third and second millennium BC, a widespread ...

A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has evaluated the role of micro-organisms colonizing the Sacred Rock at ...

Peasant farmers began transforming diets across the Old World 7,000 years ago, study findsCredit: Data source: Xinyi Liu; Animation by ...

Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition to develop ...

Genetic studies of ancient populations in the Caucasus region testify to the complex interaction of populations from the Eurasian steppe ...

Credit: Courtesy of Sawyer Broadley, Amey Zhang and Jeremy DeSilva. The fossil site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humankind, ...

Together with Russian researchers, archaeologists from the universities of Frankfurt and Mainz are studying Bronze Age activity in the steppe ...