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 of…
New insights into the climatic backdrop for an early wave of dispersal of our species into Europe during the last glacial period. The process of…
An Ancient Disaster: Researchers present evidence that a cosmic impact destroyed a biblical city in the Jordan Valley. Scientists have found evidence of a cosmic…
Archaeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily skewed by…
Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant bones. In a new study, University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist Paola Villa and her colleagues surveyed…
An Indian Otter found at Hammerschmiede: Neptune’s Vishnu otter arrived 11.4 million years ago from Southeast Asia. Researchers from the Universities of Tübingen and Zaragoza…
Remains include the first armored dinosaurs and land-dwelling crocs from the region. Where skeletons are rare, isolated teeth can flesh out our understanding of ancient…
Tyrannosaurus rex, the fearsome predator that once roamed what is now western North America, appears to have had an East Coast cousin. A new study…
Pottery vessels which had contained beer, found with human remains in platform mound. Alcoholic beverages have long been known to serve an important socio-cultural function…
Machu Picchu, the famous 15th-century Inca site in southern Peru, is up to several decades older than previously thought, according to a new study led…
International research by Tel Aviv University, the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, and the University of California San Diego uncovered findings regarding the…
Research team reconstructs genetic histories and social organization in Neolithic and Bronze Age Croatia. Present-day Croatia was an important crossroads for migrating peoples along the…
Lead found in 12,000 Year old skeletons reflects increasing rates of lead production, toxic exposure, and a harbinger of things to come, Hebrew University study…
A team of geneticists and archaeologists from Ireland, France, Iran, Germany, and Austria has sequenced the DNA from a 1,600-year-old sheep mummy from an ancient…
New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the core of the Easter Island myth didn’t really…
A ball of 4,000-year-old hair frozen in time tangled around a whalebone comb led to the first ever reconstruction of an ancient human genome just…
Sheepskin may have been the preferred parchment for use in legal documents in Britain between the 16th and 20th century based on its utility in…
Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced by human early ancestors. The research shows parts of…
The average body size of humans has fluctuated significantly over the last million years and is strongly linked to temperature. Colder, harsher climates drove the…