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April 30, 2025
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Apr. 23, 2025 Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a ...
Apr. 23, 2025 Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international team of researchers analyzing genome-wide data from 210 ancient individuals has found that Levantine Phoenician towns contributed little ...
Apr. 21, 2025 What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...
Apr. 17, 2025 Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons ...
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Apr. 14, 2025 Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges ...
Apr. 2, 2025 People living in Bronze Age-era Denmark may have been able to travel to Norway directly over the open sea, according to a new study. To complete this ...
Apr. 9, 2025 In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans ...
Apr. 2, 2025 An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment. ...
Mar. 26, 2025 Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: Researchers present an innovative tool that offers many new ...
Mar. 17, 2025 Researchers have identified the economic and political borders separating El Argar, considered to be the first state-society in the Iberian Peninsula, from its La Mancha and Valencia Bronze Age ...
Mar. 11, 2025 For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...
Mar. 5, 2025 The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one ...
Feb. 25, 2025 New research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish. By chemically analyzing crystals in ...
Feb. 25, 2025 The efficient architecture of our joints, which allows our skeletons to be flexible and sturdy, originated among our most ancient jawed fish ancestors, according to a new ...
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Feb. 21, 2025 Sweden's Viking Age population appears to have suffered from severe oral and maxillofacial disease, sinus and ear infections, osteoarthritis, and much more. This is shown in a study in which ...
Feb. 17, 2025 A rare discovery of a nearly complete skull in the Egyptian desert has led scientists to the 'dream' revelation of a new 30-million-year-old species of the ancient apex predatory carnivore, ...
Feb. 12, 2025 Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...
Feb. 11, 2025 An international research team has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from the Maszycka Cave in southern Poland being ...
Feb. 11, 2025 Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The study reveals a complex genetic ancestry with influences from both ...
Feb. 5, 2025 Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Researchers contribute a new piece to this puzzle. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia ...
Jan. 31, 2025 A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...
Jan. 30, 2025 The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fueled by sheep herding and people exploiting their milk. As early as 8,000 years ...
Jan. 30, 2025 Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity. Geoscientists conducted ...
Jan. 27, 2025 Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a house in England is the site of a lost residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, and shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. By reinterpreting ...
Jan. 15, 2025 A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife's community. This is believed to be the ...
Jan. 14, 2025 Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...
Jan. 13, 2025 Researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris ...
Jan. 10, 2025 anthropologists have analyzed a skull that was found in the ruins of Ephesos (Turkey) in 1929. It was long speculated that it could be the remains of Arsino IV, the sister of the famous Cleopatra. ...
Jan. 7, 2025 A new study has outlined the first genomic evidence of early migration from New Guinea into the Wallacea, an archipelago containing Timor-Leste and hundreds of inhabited eastern Indonesian ...
Jan. 6, 2025 Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive development of children. Scientists have previously used atmospheric ...
Jan. 1, 2025 Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 bioarchaeological analyses of human diets from this area ...
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- Evidence of Cannibalism 18,000 Years Ago
- New Study Unravels the History of the Largest Pastoral Population in Africa
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- Ancient DNA Analyses Bring to Life the 11,000-Year Intertwined Genomic History of Sheep and Humans
- Lead Contamination in Ancient Greece Points to Societal Change
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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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- Into the Great Wide Open: How Steppe Pastoralist Groups Formed and Transformed Over Time
- The 'urban Revolution' Was Slow in Bronze Age Arabia
- Bones from Tudor Mary Rose Shipwreck Suggest Handedness Might Affect Collarbone Chemistry
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- UNH Helps Community Document Skeletal Remains Found on Historic 'poor Farm'
- Fossils and Fires: Insights Into Early Modern Human Activity in the Jungles of Southeast Asia
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- Underwater Caves Yield New Clues About Sicily's First Residents
- Microscopic Study of Milk Teeth Reveals Mystery of Death of Iberian Culture Newborns Buried Inside Homes
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- New Study Questions the Theory of a Violent Invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in the Late Prehistory
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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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- New Interpretation of Runic Inscription Reveals Pricing in Viking Age
- House Call: A New Study Rethinks Early Christian Landmark
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- Ancient Syrian Diets Resembled the Modern 'Mediterranean Diet'
- Greek Island Was Home to Bronze Age Purple Dye Workshop
- Ritual Sacrifice at Chichén Itzá
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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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- 3,500-Year-Old Mycenaean Armor Was Suitable for Extended Battle
- Excavation Reveals 'major' Ancient Migration to Timor Island
Friday, May 17, 2024
- Pagan-Christian Trade Networks Supplied Horses from Overseas for the Last Horse Sacrifices in Europe
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- 75,000-Year-Old Female Neanderthal from Cave Where Species Buried Their Dead
- Revised Dating of the Liujiang Skeleton Renews Understanding of Human Occupation of China
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- Uncovering the Mystery of Dorset's Cerne Giant
- Persian Plateau Unveiled as Crucial Hub for Early Human Migration out of Africa
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- Scientists Uncover Evidence That Microplastics Are Contaminating Archaeological Remains
- Tudor Era Horse Cemetery in Westminster Revealed as Likely Resting Place for Elite Imported Animals