New method solves old mystery: Hafnium isotopes clinch origin of high-quality Roman glass
An international team of researchers have found a way to determine the origin of colourless glass from the Roman period. ...
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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 ...
Tracking Australia’s gigantic carnivorous dinosaurs
Credit: Dr Anthony Romilio North America had the T. rex, South America had the Giganotosaurus and Africa the Spinosaurus - ...
Tomography studies of coins shed light on the history of Volga Bulgaria
Kazanites teamed up with nuclear researchers from Dubna to publish their resultsCredit: Kazan Federal University Kazan Federal University, Joint Institute ...
New fossil discovery shows 50 million-year-old Canada-Australia connection
Credit: Copyright: The Canadian Entomologist. Used by permission. The discovery of a tiny insect fossil is unearthing big questions about ...
Radiocarbon dating pins date for construction of Uyghur complex to the year 777
Credit: Andrei Panin Dating archaeological objects precisely is difficult, even when using techniques such as radiocarbon dating. Using a recently ...
DNA increases our understanding of contact between Stone Age cultures
Credit: Göran Burenhult What kind of interactions did the various Stone Age cultures have with one another? In a new ...
Ancient DNA provides new insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean
New study reveals multiple waves of settlement and connections to the American mainlandCredit: Tom Björklund. According to a new study ...
Ancient genomes link subsistence change and human migration in northern China
Genetic analysis of 55 ancient individuals finds that genetic changes in Yellow River, West Liao River and Amur River populations ...
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 ...
Dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle
Credit: Chase Stone The simulations show that the asteroid hit Earth at an angle of about 60 degrees, which maximised ...
7,000 years of demographic history in France
Credit: © Eva-Maria Geigl et Thierry Grange, Institut Jacques Monod (CNRS/Université de Paris) A team led by scientists from the ...
Supercomputer model simulations reveal cause of Neanderthal extinction
Credit: IBS Climate scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics discover that, contrary to previously held beliefs, Neanderthal extinction ...
Fishing rod ‘selfie stick’ and scientific sleuthing turn up clues to extinct sea reptile
Skeleton high on a London museum wall -- mostly ignored for a century -- spurs a study finding that the ...
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 ...
Global cooling event 4,200 years ago spurred rice’s evolution, spread across asia
Scientists use genomics, archeology, and climate data to reconstruct history of riceCredit: Rafal Gutaker, New York University A major global ...
A lost world and extinct ecosystem
Credit: Erich Fisher Archaeological sites on the far southern shores of South Africa hold the world's richest records for the ...
Pofatu: A new database for geochemical ‘fingerprints’ of artefacts
The Pofatu Database is the first comprehensive open-access compilation of geochemical analyses and contextual information for archaeological sources and artefacts ...
Cultivating cooperation through kinship
Cooperation among biologically unrelated individuals is uniquely humanCredit: Painted by: Liane Gabora While the capability for organisms to work together ...
Evidence of Late Pleistocene human colonization of isolated islands beyond Wallace’s Line
New isotopic study of fossil teeth shows flexible human adaptations to Pleistocene island life through timeCredit: Sue O'Connor A new ...
