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April 22, 2020
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Marmoset (stock image). Ucayalipithecus perdita would have been very small, similar in size to a modern-day marmoset. | Credit: (c) Clement Horvath / stock.adobe.com

Ancient Teeth from Peru Hint Now-Extinct Monkeys Crossed Atlantic from Africa

Apr. 9, 2020 — Four fossilized monkey teeth discovered deep in the Peruvian Amazon provide new evidence that more than one group of ancient ... read more
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Archaeologists on a 5,000-Year-Old Egg Hunt

Apr. 8, 2020 — Scientists are closer to cracking a 5,000-year-old mystery surrounding the ancient trade and production of decorated ostrich eggs. Long before Fabergé, ornate ostrich eggs ... read more
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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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Bone Analyses Tell About Kitchen Utensils in the Middle Ages

Mar. 19, 2020 — Who in the Middle Ages cooked their dinner in copper pots? And where did they do it? Such information can be revealed by chemical analyses of human ... read more
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Fine-Tuning Radiocarbon Dating Could 'Rewrite' Ancient Events

Mar. 19, 2020 — A new paper points out the need for an important new refinement to radiocarbon dating. The research has relevance for understanding key dates in Mediterranean history and prehistory, including the ... read more

Aboriginal Scars from Frontier Wars

Mar. 18, 2020 — Hundreds of Aboriginal men who became native mounted police in colonial Australia carried a significant burden of responsibility for law and order for white settlers in Queensland and other ... read more

Surprising Research: Prehistoric Hyenas and Humans Share Migration Patterns

Mar. 13, 2020 — New research into the evolutionary history and prehistoric migrations of hyenas reveals surprising similarities between hyenas and prehistoric humans. The results also indicate that humans had a ... read more

Sticky Tape: A Key Ingredient for Mapping Artifact Origins

Mar. 9, 2020 — Researchers have demonstrated that combining a highly sensitive sulfur analysis technique with simple sulfur-free tape is an effective and harmless way to test extremely small samples of vermilion ... read more

Siberian Neanderthals Originated from Various European Populations

Mar. 4, 2020 — At least two different groups of Neanderthals lived in Southern Siberia researchers have now shown that one of these groups migrated from Eastern ... read more

How Millets Sustained Mongolia's Empires

Mar. 3, 2020 — Researchers examined stable isotopes from bone collagen and dental enamel to reconstruct the diets of ancient Mongolians. Findings challenge the popular notion of a completely nomadic prehistoric ... read more

5,000-Year-Old Milk Proteins Point to the Importance of Dairying in Eastern Eurasia

Mar. 2, 2020 — By analyzing milk proteins extracted from calcified dental plaque, researchers present the earliest evidence for dairy consumption on the eastern Eurasian Steppe and uncover clues to the origin of ... read more

Complex Pattern of Ancient Immigration from Africa, Asia and Europe

Feb. 26, 2020 — Anthropologists have found out that prehistoric migration from Africa, Asia and Europe to the Mediterranean islands took place long before the era of the Mediterranean seafaring civilizations. For ... read more

Ancient DNA from Sardinia Reveals 6,000 Years of Genetic History

Feb. 24, 2020 — A new study of the genetic history of Sardinia, a Mediterranean island off the western coast of Italy, analyzed genome-wide DNA data for 70 individuals from more than 20 Sardinian archaeological ... read more

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 Neanderthal-Denisovan ... read more

Discovery at 'Flower Burial' Site Could Unravel Mystery of Neanderthal Death Rites

Feb. 18, 2020 — The first articulated Neanderthal skeleton to come out of the ground for over 20 years has been unearthed at one of the most important sites of mid-20th century archaeology: Shanidar Cave, in the ... read more

Old Irish 'Clachan' Found in South Australia

Feb. 18, 2020 — The oldest known Australian example of a communal type of Irish settlement has been 'unearthed' in a dusty paddock in rural South Australia. An extensive geophysical study of the ... 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

9,900-Year-Old Mexican Female Skeleton Distinct from Other Early American Settlers

Feb. 5, 2020 — A new skeleton discovered in the submerged caves at Tulum sheds new light on the earliest settlers of ... read more

Ocean Temperatures Impact Central American Climate More Than Once Thought

Feb. 5, 2020 — Researchers examined the rainfall history of Central America over the last 11,000 years. The results provide context for the development of tropical rainforest ecosystems in the region, and ... read more

Smaller Detection Device Effective for Nuclear Treaty Verification, Archaeology Digs

Jan. 29, 2020 — Most nuclear data measurements are performed at accelerators large enough to occupy a geologic formation a kilometer wide. But a portable device that can reveal the composition of materials quickly ... 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

Game-Based Virtual Archaeology Field School

Jan. 29, 2020 — Before they can get started at their field site - a giant cave studded with stalactites, stalagmites and human artifacts -- 15 undergraduate students must figure out how to use their virtual hands ... 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
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