Tag: Old World

Credit: Copyright: The Canadian Entomologist. Used by permission. The discovery of a tiny insect fossil is unearthing big questions about ...

Credit: Andrei Panin Dating archaeological objects precisely is difficult, even when using techniques such as radiocarbon dating. Using a recently ...

Credit: Göran Burenhult What kind of interactions did the various Stone Age cultures have with one another? In a new ...

New study reveals multiple waves of settlement and connections to the American mainlandCredit: Tom Björklund. According to a new study ...

Genetic analysis of 55 ancient individuals finds that genetic changes in Yellow River, West Liao River and Amur River populations ...

Credit: WSU When it comes to the great civilizations of human history, the pen really might have been mightier than ...

Credit: Chase Stone The simulations show that the asteroid hit Earth at an angle of about 60 degrees, which maximised ...

Credit: © Eva-Maria Geigl et Thierry Grange, Institut Jacques Monod (CNRS/Université de Paris) A team led by scientists from the ...

Credit: IBS Climate scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics discover that, contrary to previously held beliefs, Neanderthal extinction ...

Skeleton high on a London museum wall -- mostly ignored for a century -- spurs a study finding that the ...

This material is not a semi-fossilized resinCredit: Xavier Delclòs (UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA-IRBio) The known Madagascar copal is a more recent ...

Scientists use genomics, archeology, and climate data to reconstruct history of riceCredit: Rafal Gutaker, New York University A major global ...

Credit: Erich Fisher Archaeological sites on the far southern shores of South Africa hold the world's richest records for the ...

The Pofatu Database is the first comprehensive open-access compilation of geochemical analyses and contextual information for archaeological sources and artefacts ...