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December 24, 2024
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Dec. 16, 2024 Analysis of the remains of at least 37 individuals from Early Bronze Age England finds they were killed, butchered, and probably consumed before being thrown down a 15m-deep shaft. It is the largest-scale example of interpersonal violence from ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Nearly all living organisms use the same genetic code, a complicated mechanism by which genetic information is translated into proteins, the building blocks of life. A new study suggests conventional wisdom about how the code evolved is likely ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern human genomes to date. The genomes were recovered ...
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Dec. 11, 2024 A new study sheds light on the lives of people who lived over 5,600 years ago near Kosenivka, Ukraine. Researchers present the first detailed ...
Dec. 9, 2024 A cave in Galilee, Israel, has yielded evidence for ritualistic gathering 35,000 years ago, the earliest on the Asian ...
Dec. 6, 2024 A researcher has uncovered evidence of intestinal parasites in a 500-year-old latrine from Bruges, Belgium, and while the finding may induce ...
Dec. 6, 2024 By decoding the DNA of the beaked hazelnut (Corylus cornuta), a native plant that thrives in British Columbia, a team of multidisciplinary scientists ...
Dec. 5, 2024 A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes ...
Dec. 4, 2024 A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day ...
Dec. 4, 2024 A new study sheds light on how long humans in the Americas have had relationships with the ancestors of today's dogs -- and asks an 'existential ...
Nov. 28, 2024 More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two ...
Nov. 27, 2024 Paleoindians at Wyoming's LaPrele mammoth site made needles from the bones of fur-bearers, likely to creat garments from the animals' furs to keep warm in a cool ...
Nov. 27, 2024 Brain size increased gradually within each ancient human species rather than through sudden leaps between ...
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Nov. 25, 2024 Armenians, a population in Western Asia historically inhabiting the Armenian highlands, were long believed to be descendants of Phrygian settlers from the Balkans. This theory originated largely from ...
Nov. 22, 2024 Archaeologists have collected data which indicates the presence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility. Discovered in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary (CTWS), the largest inland ...
Nov. 21, 2024 Archaeology studies the human past through the excavation of things people made and used thousands of years ago -- from architecture to objects like pottery bowls and animal bones from meals. ...
Nov. 20, 2024 Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian ...
Nov. 19, 2024 Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers has revealed new insights into how ancient Europeans adapted to ...
Nov. 19, 2024 The Aztec skull whistle produces a shrill, screaming sound. A study shows that these whistles have a disturbing effect on the human brain. The Aztecs may have deliberately used this effect in ...
Nov. 16, 2024 Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier than previously ...
Nov. 14, 2024 Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...
Nov. 8, 2024 Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered 'hominin' group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct ...
Nov. 7, 2024 Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected variations in gender and ...
Nov. 1, 2024 New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as ...
Nov. 1, 2024 Ancient cultural burning practices carried out by Indigenous Australians limited fuel availability and prevented high intensity fires in southeastern Australia for thousands of years, according to ...
Oct. 31, 2024 Relief-type cultural heritage objects are commonly found in many historical sites worldwide, but often suffer from varying levels of damage and deterioration. Traditional methods for image ...
Oct. 30, 2024 With the 'time-traveling ability' of archaeogenetic studies it has become possible to shed light onto the dynamic past of human populations world-wide. Integrated with archaeological and ...
Oct. 30, 2024 Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 ...
Oct. 30, 2024 Settlements in northern Arabia were in a transitional stage of urbanization during the third to second millennium BCE, according to a new ...
Oct. 29, 2024 Researchers used laser-guided imaging to uncover vast unexplored Maya settlements in Campeche, Mexico, revealing more than 6,500 pre-Hispanic structures, including a previously unknown large city ...
Oct. 28, 2024 Using new technology, researchers have been able to confirm the location of the world's oldest ochre mine and trace how ochre from the mine was dispersed to nearby ...
Oct. 25, 2024 A passage in the Norse Sverris Saga, the 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, describes a military raid that occurred in AD 1197, during which a body was thrown into a well at Sverresborg ...
Oct. 23, 2024 The transition from water to land is one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth. Now, a team of roboticists, palaeontologists and biologists is using robots to study how the ...
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- Scientists Use Ancient DNA to Shed Light on Adaptation of Early Europeans
- The Chilling Sound of the Aztec Death Whistle
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- Evolutionary Paths Vastly Differ for Birds, Bats
- Indigenous Cultural Burning Has Protected Australia's Landscape for Millennia, Study Finds
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- Into the Great Wide Open: How Steppe Pastoralist Groups Formed and Transformed Over Time
- Ancient DNA Brings to Life History of the Iconic Aurochs, Whose Tale Is Intertwined With Climate Change and Human Culture
- The 'urban Revolution' Was Slow in Bronze Age Arabia
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- Early Human Species Benefited from Food Diversity in Steep Mountainous Terrain
- Fossils and Fires: Insights Into Early Modern Human Activity in the Jungles of Southeast Asia
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- In Studying the Mating Rituals of Fruit Flies, Scientists May Have Learned Something About How Brains Evolve
- Underwater Caves Yield New Clues About Sicily's First Residents
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- Twice as Many Women as Men Were Buried in the Megalithic Necropolis of Panoria, Study Finds
- World's Oldest Cheese Reveals Origins of Kefir
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
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- New Fossil Fish Species Scales Up Evidence of Earth's Evolutionary March
- Research Reveals Reality of Ice Age Teen Puberty
- The Neanderthals May Have Become Extinct Because of Their Isolated Lifestyle
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
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- Agriculture Accelerated Human Genome Evolution to Capture Energy from Starchy Foods
- New Population Model Identifies Phases of Human Dispersal Across Europe
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- Among Viking Societies, Norway Was Much More Violent Than Denmark
- Study Reveals Isolation, Endogamy and Pathogens in Early Medieval Spanish Community
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- Decoding the World's Largest Animal Genome
- Rare Archaeological Site Reveals 'surprising' Neanderthal Behaviour at Pyrenees Foothills
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
- New Interpretation of Runic Inscription Reveals Pricing in Viking Age
- House Call: A New Study Rethinks Early Christian Landmark
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
- Carvings at Ancient Monument May Be World's Oldest Calendars
- Smallest Arm Bone in Human Fossil Record Sheds Light on the Dawn of Homo Floresiensis
Friday, August 2, 2024
- Half a Billion-Year-Old Spiny Slug Reveals the Origins of Mollusks
- Demographics of North African Human Populations Unravelled Using Genomic Data and Artificial Intelligence
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- 'A History of Contact': Geneticists Are Rewriting the Narrative of Neanderthals and Other Ancient Humans
- Unveiling 1,200 Years of Human Occupation in Canada's Arctic
- First Ever 3D Reconstruction of 52,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Chromosomes Thanks to Serendipitously Freeze-Dried Skin
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- The Plague May Have Caused the Downfall of the Stone Age Farmers
- Archaeologists Report Earliest Evidence for Plant Farming in East Africa
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- New Study Finds Dinosaur Fossils Did Not Inspire the Mythological Griffin
- Newly Discovered Dinosaur Boasts Big, Blade-Like Horns
Monday, June 17, 2024
- Origins of Cumulative Culture in Human Evolution
- Direct Evidence Found for Dairy Consumption in the Pyrenees in the Earliest Stages of the Neolithic
- Ancient Polar Sea Reptile Fossil Is Oldest Ever Found in Southern Hemisphere
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
- Ancient Syrian Diets Resembled the Modern 'Mediterranean Diet'
- Origin and Spread of Malaria
- Ritual Sacrifice at Chichén Itzá
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- Scientists Unlock Secrets of How Archaea, the Third Domain of Life, Makes Energy
- Shedding Light on the Origin of a Genetic Variant Underlying Fungal Infections
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- Crucial Shift in River Nile's Evolution During Ancient Egypt Discovered
- Kinship and Ancestry of the Celts in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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- Legacy of Indigenous Stewardship of Camas Dates Back More Than 3,500 Years
- What Pottery Reveals About Prehistoric Central European Culinary Traditions
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- Pagan-Christian Trade Networks Supplied Horses from Overseas for the Last Horse Sacrifices in Europe
- Early Arrival and Expansion of Palaeolithic People on Cyprus