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DNA study sheds new light on the people of the Neolithic battle axe culture

HeritageDailyOctober 10, 2019October 10, 2019

by HeritageDailyOctober 10, 2019October 10, 201901932

In an interdisciplinary study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, an international research team has combined archaeological, genetic and stable isotope data to understand

Anthropology

Preserving old bones with modern technology

HeritageDailySeptember 27, 2019

by HeritageDailySeptember 27, 20190808

A team of University of Colorado Boulder anthropologists is out to change the way that scientists study old bones damage-free.

Anthropology

Teeth offer vital clues about diet during the Great Irish Famine

HeritageDailySeptember 12, 2019

by HeritageDailySeptember 12, 201901018

Scientific analysis of dental calculus - plaque build-up - of the Famine's victims found evidence of corn (maize), oats, potato, wheat and milk foodstuffs.

Anthropology

Bones of Roman Britons provide new clues to dietary deprivation

HeritageDailySeptember 11, 2019

by HeritageDailySeptember 11, 2019019476

Researchers at the University of Bradford have shown a link between the diet of Roman Britons and their mortality rates for the first time, overturning

Anthropology

Researchers find earliest evidence of milk consumption

HeritageDailySeptember 10, 2019

by HeritageDailySeptember 10, 2019010159

Researchers have found the earliest direct evidence of milk consumption anywhere in the world in the teeth of prehistoric British farmers.

Anthropology

Tiny ear bones help archaeologists piece together the past

HeritageDailyAugust 21, 2019

by HeritageDailyAugust 21, 201901526

Archaeologists from the University of Bradford have examined ear ossicles taken from the skeletons of 20 juveniles, excavated from an 18th and 19th century burial

Anthropology

Student reveals the face of Iron Age female druid

HeritageDailyAugust 16, 2019

by HeritageDailyAugust 16, 201904096

A University of Dundee student has revealed the face of one of Scotland’s oldest druids, believed to have been more than 60 years old when

Anthropology

Murder in the Paleolithic? Evidence of violence behind human skull remains

HeritageDailyJuly 4, 2019

by HeritageDailyJuly 4, 201904832

New analysis of the fossilized skull of an Upper Paleolithic man suggests that he died a violent death, according to a study published by an

Anthropology

Maize-centric diet may have contributed to ancient Maya collapse

HeritageDailyJuly 3, 2019

by HeritageDailyJuly 3, 201904918

The question of how to best adapt to extreme climate is a critical issue facing modern societies worldwide.

Anthropology

DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians

HeritageDailyJune 6, 2019

by HeritageDailyJune 6, 201904818

Two children's milk teeth buried deep in a remote archaeological site in north eastern Siberia have revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there

Anthropology

Ancient ritual bundle contained multiple psychotropic plants

HeritageDailyMay 7, 2019

by HeritageDailyMay 7, 201901313

A thousand years ago, Native Americans in South America used multiple psychotropic plants -- possibly simultaneously -- to induce hallucinations and altered consciousness, according to

Anthropology

Funerary customs, diet, and social behavior in a pre-Roman Italian community

HeritageDailyApril 23, 2019

by HeritageDailyApril 23, 201902669

Analysis of human remains from a Pre-Roman Celtic cemetery in Italy shows variations in funerary treatment between individuals that could be related to social status,

Anthropology

Ancient DNA research shines spotlight on Iberia

HeritageDailyMarch 15, 2019

by HeritageDailyMarch 15, 201909892

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

Anthropology

From Stone Age chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human

HeritageDailyMarch 12, 2019

by HeritageDailyMarch 12, 201903444

Anthropologists have long made the case that tool-making is one of the key behaviors that separated our human ancestors from other primates.

Anthropology

Pottery reveals America’s first social media networks

HeritageDailyFebruary 20, 2019

by HeritageDailyFebruary 20, 201902926

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

Anthropology

Sexing ancient cremated human remains is possible through skeletal measurements

HeritageDailyJanuary 30, 2019

by HeritageDailyJanuary 30, 201903842

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

Anthropology

Modern humans replaced Neanderthals in southern Spain 44,000 years ago

HeritageDailyJanuary 30, 2019

by HeritageDailyJanuary 30, 201901880

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

Anthropology

Returning indigenous remains to their ancestral lands, thanks to ancient DNA

HeritageDailyDecember 20, 2018

by HeritageDailyDecember 20, 201802563

Genomic analyses can reveal the geographic origins of indigenous Aboriginal Australian remains currently held in museums, a new study reports.

Anthropology

The whole tooth: New method to find biological sex from a single tooth

HeritageDailyNovember 12, 2018

by HeritageDailyNovember 12, 201803371

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

Anthropology

The Dark Ages were relatively healthy

HeritageDailyNovember 8, 2018

by HeritageDailyNovember 8, 201806160

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,

Anthropology

Fern plant infusion keeps the doctor away in Medieval Europe

HeritageDailyNovember 6, 2018November 6, 2018

by HeritageDailyNovember 6, 2018November 6, 201802553

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

Anthropology

UC anthropologist rewrites history using science, art

HeritageDailyOctober 4, 2018

by HeritageDailyOctober 4, 201805504

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

Category : Anthropology

DNA study sheds new light on the people of the Neolithic battle axe culture

Preserving old bones with modern technology

Teeth offer vital clues about diet during the Great Irish Famine

Bones of Roman Britons provide new clues to dietary deprivation

Researchers find earliest evidence of milk consumption

Tiny ear bones help archaeologists piece together the past

Student reveals the face of Iron Age female druid

Murder in the Paleolithic? Evidence of violence behind human skull remains

Maize-centric diet may have contributed to ancient Maya collapse

DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians

Ancient ritual bundle contained multiple psychotropic plants

Funerary customs, diet, and social behavior in a pre-Roman Italian community

Ancient DNA research shines spotlight on Iberia

From Stone Age chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human

Pottery reveals America’s first social media networks

Sexing ancient cremated human remains is possible through skeletal measurements

Modern humans replaced Neanderthals in southern Spain 44,000 years ago

Returning indigenous remains to their ancestral lands, thanks to ancient DNA

The whole tooth: New method to find biological sex from a single tooth

The Dark Ages were relatively healthy

Fern plant infusion keeps the doctor away in Medieval Europe

UC anthropologist rewrites history using science, art

Roman Sex, Sexuality, Slaves and Lex Scantinia

Was Cleopatra beautiful? The archaeological evidence

Archaeologists discover bread that predates agriculture by 4,000 years

Half the population of the Viking-town Sigtuna were migrants

Georadar detects a Viking ship in Norway

The largest ever Bronze Age hoard in London has been discovered

Lost in combat?

Discovered: Unknown yellow colors from antiquity

Preserving old bones with modern technology

Teeth offer vital clues about diet during the Great Irish Famine

Bones of Roman Britons provide new clues to dietary deprivation

Did a common childhood illness take down the Neanderthals?

Rare 10 million-year-old fossil unearths new view of human evolution

A face for Lucy’s ancestor