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Pigment production adapted to cultural changes and the availability of mineral resources 40,000 years...
An international research team from Spain and France has carried out the chemical and technological analysis of the largest...
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Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure
Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structures made of wood, according...
Archaeology
Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile ‘dark earth’
The Amazon river basin is known for its immense and lush tropical forests, so one might assume that the...
Anthropology
Anthropology
Extinction of large prey drove evolutionary changes in prehistoric humans
A new study from the Department of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University found that the extinction of large...
Anthropology
Ötzi: dark skin, bald head, Anatolian ancestry
A research team has used advanced sequencing technology to analyze Ötzi's genome to obtain a more accurate picture...
Anthropology
How a massive North Atlantic cooling event disrupted early human occupation in Europe
A new study published in the journal Science by an international team finds that past changes in atmospheric CO2 and corresponding...
Anthropology
These bones were made for walking
Perhaps the most profound advance in primate evolution occurred about 6 million years ago when our ancestors started...
Anthropology
Early humans were weapon woodwork experts, study finds
A 300,000-year-old hunting weapon has shone a new light on early humans as woodworking masters, according to a...
Anthropology
In ancient California daughters nursed longer, women built more wealth
In a new study, researchers and members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area are...
Anthropology
Centuries-old teeth could indicate the effectiveness of pandemic quarantines
Italian officials have provided an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the University of South Florida access to the...
Anthropology
How larger body sizes helped the colonizers of New Zealand
For the first time, researchers have developed a model to estimate how much energy the original colonizers of...
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Magnetic fields to be used to explore submerged civilisations
Magnetic fields could provide the key to understanding submerged...
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Mesolithic child buried with bird feathers, plant fibres and fur unearthed in eastern Finland
The exceptional excavation of a Stone Age burial site...
Archaeology
Excavations at Ovriokastron on Greek island of Lesvos yield new finds
Important new elements that shed light on aspects of habitation...
Anthropology
Gut microbes and humans on a joint evolutionary journey
The human gut microbiome is composed of thousands of...
Archaeology
Examining the inscriptions of ancient tourists in the tomb of Ramesses VI
The tomb of Ramesses VI in the Egyptian Valley...
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Discovery of bronzes rewrites Italy’s Etruscan-Roman history
Italian authorities on Tuesday announced the extraordinary discovery of...
Anthropology
Neanderthal extinction may have been caused by sex, not fighting
A new paper proposes that Homo sapiens may have...
Archaeology
Gold from Troy, Poliochni and Ur all had same origin
The gold in objects from Troy, Poliochni – a...
Archaeology
Intact burial cave from time of Rameses II discovered on Israeli coast
Israeli archaeologists on Sunday announced the "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery of...
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Temple of Aphrodite revealed in Thonis Heraklion
In an official communiqué issued by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt, it has come to light that an archaeological expedition has successfully unveiled a temple consecrated to Aphrodite within the submerged environs of Thonis-Heracleion. This once-thriving urban settlement, Thonis-Heracleion, was positioned...
Palaeontology
Large fossil spider found in Australia
A team of Australian scientists led by Australian Museum (AM) and University of New South Wales (UNSW) paleontologist Dr. Matthew McCurry have formally named and described a fossil spider, Megamonodontium mccluskyi, which is between 11–16 million years old. The findings on this new genus...
Palaeontology
Fossils of ‘primitive cousins of T rex’ shed light on the end of the age of dinosaurs in Africa
Fossils of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco. The two new dinosaur species belong to the Abelisauridae, a family of carnivorous dinosaurs that were counterparts to the tyrannosaurs of...
Archaeology
Pollen analysis suggests dispersal of modern humans occurred during a major Pleistocene warming spell
It's an Ice Age mystery that's been debated for decades among anthropologists: Exactly when and how did the flow of Homo sapiens in Eurasia happen? Did a cold snap or a warming spell drive early human movement from Africa into Europe and Asia?
A study...
Archaeology
Ancient ‘power’ palazzo on Rome’s Palatine Hill reopens to tourists, decades after closure.
An ancient Roman imperial palazzo atop the city's Palatine Hill was reopened to tourists on Thursday, nearly 50 years after its closure for restoration.
The nearly 2,000-year-old Domus Tiberiana was home to rulers in the ancient city's Imperial period. The sprawling palace allows for sweeping...
Evolution
Colourful primates don’t have better colour vision, study finds
Primate species with better colour vision are not more likely to have red skin or fur colouration, as previously thought.
The findings, published this week in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, suggest that red skin and/or red-orange fur may be beneficial for use in...
Natural History
Study explores supergiant iceberg’s huge impact on surrounding ocean surface
The melting of the supergiant iceberg A-68 had a huge impact on the ocean around South Georgia, in sub-Antarctica, and significantly changed the Southern Ocean's temperature and saltiness, with potentially major consequences for this ecologically significant region. These results are published this week in...
Astronomy
Astronomers find abundance of Milky Way–like galaxies in early universe, rewriting cosmic evolution theories
Galaxies from the early universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the universe, according to new research published today.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team...
Astronomy
Astronomers discover newborn galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope
With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to peer so far back in time that we are approaching the epoch where we think that the first galaxies were created. Throughout most of the history of the universe, galaxies...
Palaeontology
Six new species of Western Australian trilobites discovered
Six new species of trilobites have been found deep underground in the Canning Basin of Western Australia. Dr. Patrick Smith at the Australian Museum and Heidi Allen from Geological Survey of WA tell us how this discovery has reshaped our understanding of ancient life...
Palaeontology
A fossil jumping spider’s 15-million-year journey
Jumping spiders (Salticidae) are a recently evolved family of spiders. They are known for their distinctive large eyes and ability to jump long distances relative to their small size. Australia has about 1,200 to 1,500 species of this spider family. Only 500 have scientific...
Palaeontology
Dinosaur feathers reveal traces of ancient proteins
Palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution.
Previous studies suggested that ancient feathers had a different composition to the feathers of birds today. The new research, however, reveals...