400,000 Year Old Fossil Helps Shed New Light on Human Evolution
A nearly 400,000 year old human fossil discovered in a Serbian cave is helping scientists shed new light on human evolution. A fossil fragment of…
A nearly 400,000 year old human fossil discovered in a Serbian cave is helping scientists shed new light on human evolution. A fossil fragment of…
Archaeologists have retrieved medicinal tablets from a 2000-year-old shipwreck, indicating that classical Mediterranean civilizations used sophisticated drugs. The scientists published their findings in the journal…
A team of scientists from Princeton University and the University of Bristol, UK, have discovered traces of dairy fat in ancient ceramic fragments, indicating that…
Cooking stones that line Maori steam ovens in New Zealand are helping scientists study the history of the Earth’s magnetic field. The cooking process generates…
The Maya civilization, which occupied much of modern-day Mexico and Central America, collapsed rapidly between 800 and 1000 AD. This collapse has often puzzled archaeologists….
Archaeologists have discovered some new stone blades from a cave in South Africa that seem to indicate that early humans were already quite adept at…
A controversial new claim made by archaeologists states that the Easter Island moai statues could have walked out of the quarries in which they were…
More than a hundred bones of animals, some of which could be of human origin from the final stages of the Pleistocene period, were found…
Since the 1960s, DNA has changed the story of human ancestry. Some studies have shown that all modern humans are descended from ancestors who lived…
Stable isotope analysis of ancient Eskimo hair found in Western Alaska could reveal how people in the region lived through times of climate change and…
A 2,684-year-old human skull that included an exceptionally well-preserved human brain was discovered in a waterlogged pit in Yorkshire, UK. The brain is the oldest…
Found in rocks at the Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, researchers discovered over 100 fossils of what are believed to be “baby” rangeomorphs that lived 580-550…
Some European cave paintings are older than previously thought, implying that Neanderthals might have been their creators rather than Homo sapiens. It’s not yet certain,…
Scientists from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Palermo examined a weapon that an ancient warship used to ram enemy ships in the…
The remains of the largest crocodilian known to have existed, Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, were unearthed in the Turkana Basin, in Kenya. The large crocodile was big…
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of the sophisticated astronomy and the time-keeping rituals of the ancient Mayan people, deep under the earth in the…
In a published study, scientists from the University of Zurich and Zoological Society of London describe how they believe the reproductive cycle of egg laying…
Ash was discovered in a South African cave, and this indicates that humans were cooking with fire one million years ago. This is the earliest…