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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

Neanderthals Went Underwater for Their Tools

Jan. 15, 2020 — Neanderthals collected clam shells and volcanic rock from the beach and coastal waters of Italy during the Middle Paleolithic, according to a new ... 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
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Dog Domestication During Ice Age

Feb. 19, 2020 — Analysis of Paleolithic-era teeth from a 28,500-year-old fossil site in the Czech Republic provides supporting evidence for two groups of canids -- one dog-like and the other wolf-like - with ... read more

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

Oral Traditions and Volcanic Eruptions in Australia

Feb. 10, 2020 — In Australia, the onset of human occupation (about 65,000 years ago?) and dispersion across the continent are the subjects of intense debate and are critical to understanding global human migration ... read more

Easter Island Society Did Not Collapse Prior to European Contact, New Research Shows

Feb. 6, 2020 — Easter Island society did not collapse prior to European contact and its people continued to build its iconic moai statues for much longer than previously believed, according to a team of ... 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

3,000-Year-Old Teeth Solve Pacific Banana Mystery

Jan. 23, 2020 — Humans began transporting and growing banana in Vanuatu 3,000 years ago, a scientist has ... 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

Puzzle of Early Neolithic House Orientations Finally Solved

Jan. 10, 2020 — Human behavior is influenced by many things, most of which remain unconscious to us. One of these is known among perception psychologists as 'pseudo-neglect.' This refers to the observation ... read more

Early Humans Revealed to Have Engineered Optimized Stone Tools at Olduvai Gorge

Jan. 8, 2020 — Early Stone Age populations living between 1.8-1.2 million years ago engineered their stone tools in complex ways to make optimized cutting ... read more

Over-Hunting Walruses Contributed to the Collapse of Norse Greenland, Study Suggests

Jan. 6, 2020 — Norse Greenlanders may have chased dwindling walrus herds ever farther north in an effort to maintain their economy, when the value of walrus ivory tanked after the introduction of elephant tusks ... 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

Human Teeth Used as Jewellery in Turkey 8,500 Years Ago

Dec. 13, 2019 — At a prehistoric archaeological site in Turkey, researchers have discovered two 8,500-year-old human teeth, which had been used as pendants in a necklace or bracelet. Researchers have never ... 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

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

Imaging Uncovers Secrets of Medicine's Mysterious Ivory Manikins

Nov. 27, 2019 — Little is known about the origins of manikins -- small anatomical sculptures thought to be used by doctors four centuries ago -- but now advanced imaging techniques have offered a revealing glimpse ... read more

People, Climate, and Water Played a Role in the Extinction of Australia's Megafauna

Nov. 26, 2019 — For the first time, the research suggests a combination of climate change and the impact of people sealed the fate of megafauna, at least in south-eastern Australia. And that distribution 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

Early DNA Lineages Shed Light on the Diverse Origins of the Contemporary Population

Nov. 15, 2019 — A new genetic study demonstrates that, at the end of the Iron Age, Finland was inhabited by separate and differing populations, all of them influencing the gene pool of modern Finns. The study is so ... read more
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