Oldest Footprints of Pre-Humans Identified in Crete – Six Million Years Old
Six million-year-old fossilized footprints on the island show the human foot had begun to develop. The oldest known footprints of pre-humans were found on the…
Anthropology
Revisiting the Out of Africa Theory: New Narrative From Genetic Analysis and AI
Researchers from Estonia and Italy developed an innovative method by combining neural networks and statistics. Using this newly developed method, they refined the “Out of…
Ancient Poop Shows People in Austria Drank Beer and Ate Blue Cheese 2,700 Years Ago
Human feces don’t usually stick around for long—and certainly not for thousands of years. But exceptions to this general rule are found in a few…
Genetics and Skeletal Biology Debunks Popular Theory of Native American Origins
Latest scientific findings suggest the ancestral Native American population does not originate in Japan, as believed by many archaeologists. A widely accepted theory of Native…
New Genomics Study Unlocks Secrets of the Past To Help Shape Future of Healthcare for Millions
Largest ever Arab genome study from Qatar Genome Research Consortium sheds lights on the population structure and genetic diversity of modern Arab and Middle Eastern…
New Evidence: America’s First Civilization Was Made Up of “Sophisticated” Engineers
The Native Americans who occupied the area known as Poverty Point in northern Louisiana more than 3,000 years ago long have been believed to be…
Sedimentary Repositories Suggest Environmental Variability Driven by Changes in Earth’s Orbit
Rift Valley lakes within eastern Africa range from freshwater to highly alkaline systems and are homes to diverse ecosystems. These Rift Valley lakes are also…
Human Sustainability Challenges: Deep Roots of the “Anthropocene” Can Be Found in Tropical Forests
Tropical forests regularly appear in the news as the front line of climate change and human sustainability challenges. They are some of the most threatened…
Late Persistence of Human Ancestors at the Margins of the Monsoon Zone in India
The longest lasting tool-making tradition in prehistory, known as the Acheulean, appears more than 1.5 million years ago in Africa and 1.2 million years ago…
Decoding Human History With Ancient DNA From Extinct Archaic Humans
This year is the 20th anniversary of sequencing the human genome. In honor of this event, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei from…
Bronze Age Mystery Surprise: Milk Enabled Massive Steppe Migration
From the Xiongnu to the Mongols, the pastoralist populations of the Eurasian steppe have long been a source of fascination. Amongst the earliest herding groups…
Fossil Footprints Reveal Humans Inhabited North America Over 21,000 Years Ago
Newly discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed show that humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), occupying the region…
Late Pleistocene Humans May Have Hatched and Raised “World’s Most Dangerous Bird” 18,000 Years Ago
As early as 18,000 years ago, humans in New Guinea may have collected cassowary eggs near maturity and then raised the birds to adulthood, according…
Child’s Play: Are Tibetan Hand and Foot Traces From 200,000 Years Ago the Earliest Example of Parietal Art?
Fossilized footprints, and more rarely, handprints, can be found around the world left as people went about their daily business, preserved by freak acts of…
Maya Rulers Transformed Cities, Put Their Personal Stamp on Monumental Complexes
Maya rulers transformed cities, forging new memories of the landscape. Early Maya cities featured monumental complexes, which centered on a shared form of religion but…
Ancient Footprints Provide Evidence of Human Activity in the Americas Thousands of Years Earlier Than Thought
Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer insight into…
Archaeological Evidence Shows Early Homo sapiens in Europe Faced Subarctic Climates
New insights into the climatic backdrop for an early wave of dispersal of our species into Europe during the last glacial period. The process how…
Modern Activities Follow the Contours of Ancient Teotihuacan City
Lidar mapping study reveals vast landscape modifications that still influence construction and farming. A lidar mapping study using a cutting-edge aerial mapping technology shows ancient…