Tag: Old World

A new method that allows the almost non-destructive extraction of genetic material from archaeological human remainsCredit: Photo: Kiss Pál Museum ...

Finding shed light on role of migration in Neolithic to Bronze Age transition and emergence of Indo-European languagesCredit: Ephorate of ...

Uranium-series dating shows South African midden is world's oldestCredit: Image courtesy of E. Niespolo. Archeologists have learned a lot about ...

Francisco Serrano, from University of Malaga, refutes this conclusion published in 2020 in the absence of scientific evidenceCredit: F.J. Serrano. ...

Over 7,500 years ago early farmers set down the foundations of livestock strategies that persist todayCredit: Alejandro Sierra The results, ...

Artificial Intelligence tools enable researchers to 'shake hands' with ancient scribesCredit: Maruf A. Dhali, University of Groningen The Dead Sea ...

A transdisciplinary study of the dietary evolution of the first agricultural and pastoral communities in Central EuropeCredit: Photo credit: Marina ...

Credit: Ganta Srinivas Nearly three-quarters of Earth's land had been transformed by humans by 10,000BC, but new research shows it ...

Scientists at Goethe University and University of Bristol (UK) find traces of beeswax in prehistoric pottery of the West African ...

Resuming the archaeological season in the Egyptian Eastern Desert provides proof of Roman emerald minesCredit: Authors "New evidence of the ...

Scientists also find two new, nearly 2-million-year-old specimens--likely the earliest pieces of the H. erectus skeleton yet discoveredCredit: A. Hammond/© ...

Credit: NIGPAS While pollinators such as bees and butterflies provide crucial ecosystem services today, little is known about the origin ...

120-million-year-old animals evolved 'scratch digging' traits independentlyCredit: MAO Fangyuan A joint research team led by Dr. MAO Fangyuan and Dr. ...

The fossil skull of a woman in Czechia has provided the oldest modern human genome yet reconstructed, representing a population ...

What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meatCredit: Dr. Miki Ben Dor Researchers at Tel Aviv University ...

Scholars of archaeology, geography, history and paleoclimatology lay out a new framework for uncovering climate-society interactionsCredit: Degroot et al., 2021 ...

Credit: Photo supplied by the Trustees of the Natural History Museum. An international group of researchers led by the University ...

Credit: NIGPAS A recent study on spectacular fossil plants preserved in a volcanic ash fall deposit--known as China's "vegetational Pompeii," ...

Study shows studies of the origin of vertebrates - including human - were based on incorrect assumptions since the late ...

Previously thought of as heavy, slow and sluggish, the 260-million-year-old predator, Anteosaurus, was a ferocious hunter-killerCredit: Alex Bernardini (@SimplexPaleo) Judging ...