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April 10, 2020
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Revolutionary New Method for Dating Pottery Sheds New Light on Prehistoric Past

Apr. 8, 2020 — A team has developed a new method to date archaeological pottery using fat residues remaining in the pot wall from cooking. ... read more
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When Three Species of Human Ancestor Walked the Earth

Apr. 2, 2020 — Scientists share details of the most ancient fossil of Homo erectus known and discuss how these new findings are forcing us to rewrite a part of our species' ... read more
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Mysterious Bone Circles Made from the Remains of Mammoths Reveal Clues About Ice Age

Mar. 16, 2020 — Mysterious bone circles made from the remains of dozens of mammoths have revealed clues about how ancient communities ... read more
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Earliest Interbreeding Event Between Ancient Human Populations Discovered

Feb. 20, 2020 — A new study documented the earliest known interbreeding event between ancient human populations -- a group known as the 'super-archaics' in Eurasia interbred with a ... read more
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Ancient Plant Foods Discovered in Arnhem Land, Australia

Feb. 18, 2020 — The new study includes the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens use of plant foods outside Africa and the Middle ... read more

5200-Year-Old Grains in the Eastern Altai Mountains Redate Trans-Eurasian Crop Exchange

Feb. 14, 2020 — Cereals from the Fertile Crescent and broomcorn millet from northern China spread across the ancient world, integrating into complex farming systems that used crop-rotation cycles enabled by the ... read more

Early North Americans May Have Been More Diverse Than Previously Suspected

Jan. 29, 2020 — Ancient skulls from the cave systems at Tulum, Mexico, suggest that the earliest populations of North America may have already had a high level of morphological diversity, according to a new ... read more

Assessing Geographic Origins of Ancient Humans

Jan. 28, 2020 — Working with lead isotopes taken from tooth enamel of prehistoric animals, researchers have developed a new method for assessing the geographic origins of ancient ... read more

New Study Debunks Myth of Cahokia's Native American Lost Civilization

Jan. 27, 2020 — An archaeologist has dug up ancient human feces, among other demographic clues, to challenge the narrative around the legendary demise of Cahokia, North America's most iconic pre-Columbian ... read more

First Ancient DNA from West/Central Africa Illuminates Deep Human Past

Jan. 22, 2020 — Scientists have produced the first genome-wide ancient human DNA sequences from west and central ... read more

Native Americans Did Not Make Large-Scale Changes to Environment Prior to European Contact

Jan. 22, 2020 — Contrary to long-held beliefs, humans did not make major changes to the landscape prior to European colonization, according to new research. These new insights into the past could help to inform how ... read more

Pachacamac Idol of Ancient Peru Was Symbolically Painted

Jan. 15, 2020 — The Pachacamac Idol of ancient Peru was a multicolored and emblematic sacred icon worshiped for almost 700 hundred years before Spanish conquest, according to a new ... read more

Early Modern Humans Cooked Starchy Food in South Africa, 170,000 Years Ago

Jan. 2, 2020 — The inhabitants of the Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains on the Kwazulu-Natal/eSwatini border were cooking starchy plants 170,000 years ago. This discovery is much older than earlier reports for ... read more

New Archaeological Discoveries Reveal Birch Bark Tar Was Used in Medieval England

Dec. 19, 2019 — Scientists have, for the first time, identified the use of birch bark tar in medieval England -- the use of which was previously thought to be limited to ... read more

Ancient Mediterranean Seawall First Known Defense Against Sea Level Rise and It Failed

Dec. 18, 2019 — Ancient Neolithic villagers on the Carmel Coast in Israel built a seawall to protect their settlement against rising sea levels in the Mediterranean, revealing humanity's struggle against rising ... read more

Ancient 'Chewing Gum' Yields Insights Into People and Bacteria of the Past

Dec. 17, 2019 — Researchers have succeeded in extracting a complete human genome from a thousands-of-years old 'chewing gum.' According to the researchers, it is a new untapped source of ancient ... read more

Archaeologists Find Bronze Age Tombs Lined With Gold

Dec. 17, 2019 — Archaeologists have discovered two Bronze Age tombs containing a trove of engraved jewelry and artifacts that promise to unlock secrets about life in ancient ... read more

Celebrated Ancient Egyptian Woman Physician Likely Never Existed

Dec. 16, 2019 — For decades, an ancient Egyptian known as Merit Ptah has been celebrated as the first female physician and a role model for women entering medicine. Yet a researcher now says she never existed and is ... read more

A New Early Whale, Aegicetus Gehennae, and the Evolution of Modern Whale Locomotion

Dec. 11, 2019 — A newly discovered fossil whale represents a new species and an important step in the evolution of whale ... read more

Researchers Analyze Artifacts to Better Understand Ancient Dietary Practices

Dec. 11, 2019 — New research from anthropologists is shedding light on ancient dietary practices, the evolution of agricultural societies and ultimately, how plants have become an important element of the modern ... read more

Long-Distance Timber Trade Underpinned the Roman Empire's Construction

Dec. 4, 2019 — The ancient Romans relied on long-distance timber trading to construct their empire, according to a new ... read more

Barbequed Clams on the Menu for Ancient Puerto Ricans

Nov. 27, 2019 — Scientists have reconstructed the cooking techniques of the early inhabitants of Puerto Rico by analyzing the remains of ... read more

Scientist Excavates Medieval Uzbek Cemetery

Nov. 25, 2019 — An Otago scientist has been digging up human remains in the backyards of Uzbek villagers to discover how people lived in the Middle ... read more

Scientists Use Modern Technology to Understand How Ochre Paint Was Created in Pictographs

Nov. 19, 2019 — Ochre was often used as a vivid red paint in ancient rock art known as pictographs. Despite its broad use throughout human history and a modern focus on how the artistic symbolism is interpreted, ... read more
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