Early Cultures News

Posted March 1, 2007:

• Ancient Retrovirus Is Resurrected

Posted February 28, 2007:

• Birth Rate, Competition Are Major Players In Hominid Extinctions

Posted February 20, 2007:

• Practice Of Farming Reaches Back Farther Than Thought

Posted February 13, 2007:

• Chimp Stone Age: West African Chimpanzees Have Been Cracking Nuts With Stone Tools For Thousands Of Years
• Researchers Unearth 4,300-year-old Chimpanzee Technology; 'Stone Hammers' Fuel Evolutionary Debate

Posted February 12, 2007:

• Mummy's Amazing American Maize

Posted January 24, 2007:

• First Genetic Evidence Of Long-lived African Presence Within Britain

Posted January 16, 2007:

• 40,000-year-old Skull Shows Both Modern Human And Neandertal Traits

Posted January 12, 2007:

• 'Out Of Africa' Theory Boost: Skull Dating Suggests Modern Humans Evolved In Africa

Posted January 4, 2007:

• Researchers Track Movements Of Ancient Central Americans Using Satellites, Video-game Technology

Posted December 5, 2006:

• Gendered Division Of Labor Gave Modern Humans Advantage Over Neanderthals

Posted November 30, 2006:

• World's Oldest Ritual Discovered -- Worshipped The Python 70,000 Years Ago

Posted November 27, 2006:

• Synchrotron Reveals How Neanderthal Teeth Grew

Posted November 16, 2006:

• Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Yields Surprising Results And Opens A New Door To Future Studies

Posted November 12, 2006:

• Raiding For Women? Female Remains In Graveyards Reflect War In Pre-Hispanic New Mexico

Posted November 10, 2006:

• Varied Diet Of Early Hominid Casts Doubt On Extinction Theory

Posted November 6, 2006:

• More Human-Neandertal Mixing Evidence Uncovered

Posted October 14, 2006:

• Few Clues About African Ancestry To Be Found In Mitochondrial DNA

Posted October 10, 2006:

• New Study Explores Role Of Theater In Maya Political Organization

Posted October 5, 2006:

• Humble Shoelace Tag Carried More Currency Than Gold On Columbus's Travels

Posted October 1, 2006:

• Silver Anomalies Found In Jerusalem Pottery Hint At Wealth During Second Temple Period

Posted September 15, 2006:

• Researchers Find Evidence Of The Earliest Writing In The New World

Posted September 8, 2006:

• Modern Humans, Not Neandertals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out'
• How Did Our Ancestors' Minds Really Work?

Posted September 5, 2006:

• Social Imitation In Neonatal Monkeys

Posted August 30, 2006:

• Chimpanzees Can Transmit Cultural Behavior To Multiple 'Generations'

Posted August 28, 2006:

• How Modern Were European Neanderthals?

Posted August 26, 2006:

• Use Of Stone Hammers Sheds Light On Geographic Patterns Of Chimpanzee Tool Use

Posted August 15, 2006:

• Bison Hunters More Advanced Than Thought: Archaeologist

Posted August 1, 2006:

• Radiocarbon Testing Challenges Understanding Of Ancient Hawaiian Architecture, Social Complexity

Posted July 20, 2006:

• Germans Set Up An Apartheid-like Society In Britain
• Neandertal Genome To Be Deciphered

Posted June 24, 2006:

• Earliest Known 'Bling' Revealed

Posted June 13, 2006:

• Backs To The Future: Aymara Language And Gesture Point To Mirror-Image View Of Time

Posted June 7, 2006:

• 100,000 Year-old DNA Sequence Allows New Look At Neandertal's Genetic Diversity

Posted May 26, 2006:

• Ancient Etruscans Unlikely Ancestors Of Modern Tuscans, Statistical Testing Reveals

Posted May 17, 2006:

• Ancient Tomb Sheds New Light On Egyptian Colonialism
• Coral Reef Reveals History Of Fickle Weather In The Central Pacific

Posted April 16, 2006:

• Chimpanzees And Humans Have Gene Variant, For Different Reasons

Posted March 7, 2006:

• First Amazon-Andean Crop Plant Transfer And Corn Processing In Peru 3600-4000 Years Ago

Posted March 1, 2006:

• The Evolution Of Right- And Left-handedness

Posted February 28, 2006:

• Joining The Hunt: New Study Investigates Role Of 'Showoff Hypothesis' In Social Decisions

Posted February 20, 2006:

• Early Human Ancestors Walked On The Wild Side

Posted January 24, 2006:

• UNC Charlotte Linguist Restores Lost Language, Culture For 'The New World'

Posted January 19, 2006:

• New Study Reveals Neanderthals Were As Good At Hunting As Early Modern Humans

Posted January 6, 2006:

• Researchers Discover Greek Temple In Albania Dating Back To 6th Century B.C.

Posted January 4, 2006:

• The First Baby Boom: Skeletal Evidence Shows Abrupt Worldwide Increase In Birth Rate During Neolithic Period

Posted December 20, 2005:

• Why We Give: New Study Finds Evidence Of Generosity Among Our Early Human Ancestors

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