Ancient DNA research shines spotlight on Iberia
The largest study to date of ancient DNA from the Iberian Peninsula (modern-day Portugal and Spain) offers new insights into the populations that lived in
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From Stone Age chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human
Anthropologists have long made the case that tool-making is one of the key behaviors that separated our human ancestors from other primates.
Pottery reveals America’s first social media networks
Long before Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and even MySpace, early Mississippian Mound cultures in America's southern Appalachian Mountains shared artistic trends and technologies across regional networks
Sexing ancient cremated human remains is possible through skeletal measurements
Ancient cremated human remains, despite being deformed, still retain sexually diagnostic physical features, according to a study released January 30, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS
Modern humans replaced Neanderthals in southern Spain 44,000 years ago
A study carried out in Bajondillo Cave (in the town of Torremolinos, in the province of Malaga) by an international team made up of researchers
Returning indigenous remains to their ancestral lands, thanks to ancient DNA
Genomic analyses can reveal the geographic origins of indigenous Aboriginal Australian remains currently held in museums, a new study reports.
The whole tooth: New method to find biological sex from a single tooth
A team led by UC Davis researchers have come up with a new way to estimate the biological sex of human skeletal remains based on
The Dark Ages were relatively healthy
The early medieval period, from the 5th to the 10th centuries, is often called the Dark Ages. But in the age of legendary heroes such as Siegfried,
Fern plant infusion keeps the doctor away in Medieval Europe
The remains of a medieval skeleton has shown the first physical evidence that a fern plant could have been used for medicinal purposes in cases
UC anthropologist rewrites history using science, art
Art often imitates life, but when University of Cincinnati anthropologist and geologist Kenneth Tankersley investigated a 2000-year-old carved statue on a tobacco pipe, he exposed
Violence in pre-Columbian Panama exaggerated, new study shows
Buried alive. Butchered. Decapitated. Hacked. Mutilated. Killed. Archaeologist Samuel K. Lothrop did not obfuscate when describing what he thought had happened to the 220 bodies
Research proves South East Asian population boom 4,000 years ago
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have uncovered a previously unconfirmed population boom across South East Asia that occurred 4,000 years ago, thanks to
Nomadic hunter-gatherers show that cooperation is flexible, not fixed
In the realm of evolutionary biology and survival of the fittest, cooperation is a risky business. Yet humans do it on a scope and a
What Anglo Saxon teeth can tell us about modern health
Evidence from the teeth of Anglo Saxon children could help identify modern children most at risk from conditions such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Turtle shells served as symbolic musical instruments for indigenous cultures
Turtles served as more than tasty treats for many Native American tribes throughout North America.
Strands of hair from member of Franklin expedition provide new clues into mystery
A new analysis of human hair taken from the remains of one of the members of the Franklin expedition, is providing further evidence that lead
Half the population of the Viking-town Sigtuna were migrants
New analysis of the remains of 38 people who lived and died in the town of Sigtuna during the 10th, 11thand 12thcentury reveals high genetic
Research on British teeth unlocks potential for new insights into ancient diets
Researchers analysing the teeth of Britons from the Iron Age to the modern day have unlocked the potential for using proteins in tooth tartar to
Researchers Discovered Where Traces of Illnesses of Ancient Men Are Preserved
Researchers from South Ural State University, as part of an international team of archaeologists and paleontologists, are studying illnesses, the traces of which were detected
Our fractured African roots
A scientific consortium led by Dr. Eleanor Scerri, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford and researcher at the Max Planck Institute for
Ancient DNA testing solves 100-year-old controversy in Southeast Asian prehistory
Two competing theories about the human occupation of Southeast Asia have been debunked by ground-breaking analysis of ancient DNA extracted from 8,000 year-old skeletons.
Late Pleistocene human mandibles from the Niah Caves may hint at ancient diets
Three human mandibles may provide new insight into the diet of Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in Borneo, according to a study by Darren Curnoe from the