http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Archaeologists have discovered a 12,000-year-old iron oxide mine in Chile that marks the oldest evidence of organized mining ever found in the Americas, according to a report in the June issue of Current Anthropology. http://phys.org/news225016651.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 May 2011 09:37:42 EST news225016651 From the time of the Crusades to the modern day, war refugees have struggled to integrate into their new communities. They are often economically impoverished and socially isolated, which results in increased conflict, systematic violence and warfare, within and between communities as the new immigrants interact with and compete with the previously established inhabitants. Now, University of Missouri researcher Todd VanPool believes pottery found throughout the North American Southwest comes from a religion of peace-seeking women in the violent, 13th-century American Southwest. These women sought to find a way to integrate newly immigrating refugees and prevent the spread of warfare that decimated communities to the north. http://phys.org/news187440656.html Other Sciences Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:51:32 EST news187440656 (PhysOrg.com) -- In an ancient Mayan site, USF archaeologists use new tools to find everything old. http://phys.org/news186419281.html Other Sciences Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:11:00 EST news186419281 (AP) -- Israeli archaeologists said Monday that they've discovered an unusually shaped 1,400-year-old wine press that was exceptionally large and advanced for its time. http://phys.org/news185435572.html Other Sciences Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:10:02 EST news185435572 Archaeologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals. http://phys.org/news184748102.html Other Sciences Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:55:45 EST news184748102 Researchers excavating an ancient Roman cemetery made a surprising discovery when they extracted ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from one of the skeletons buried at the site: the 2,000-year-old bones revealed a maternal East Asian ancestry. http://phys.org/news184269403.html Other Sciences Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:30:01 EST news184269403 (PhysOrg.com) -- A decorated Mayan head measuring three meters (10 feet) at the base and sculptured out of stucco has been unearthed in northern Guatemala, near the border with Mexico. The sculpture had been buried for centuries under the thick jungle, and its presence may suggest the site could have been part of a Mayan city. http://phys.org/news183790645.html Other Sciences Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:58:06 EST news183790645 (PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeology senior Sarah Hawley presents her research on ancient figurines -- which reveals information about the transition of empires -- during prestigious annual conference. http://phys.org/news183740408.html Other Sciences Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:20:02 EST news183740408 A team of chemists from the University of Valencia (UV) has confirmed that the substance used to hermetically seal an amphora found among remains at Lixus, in Morocco, was pine resin. The scientists also studied the metallic fragments inside the 2,000-year-old vessel, which could be fragments of material used for iron-working. http://phys.org/news183200556.html Chemistry Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:03:17 EST news183200556 (AP) -- Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that may have been dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news183125535.html Other Sciences Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:12:55 EST news183125535 (AP) -- Egypt displayed on Monday newly discovered tombs more than 4,000 years old and said they belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza, presenting the discovery as more evidence that slaves did not build the ancient monuments. http://phys.org/news182335053.html Other Sciences Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:38:35 EST news182335053 Professor Gershon Galil of the department of biblical studies at the University of Haifa has deciphered an inscription dating from the 10th century BCE (the period of King David's reign), and has shown that this is a Hebrew inscription. The discovery makes this the earliest known Hebrew writing. The significance of this breakthrough relates to the fact that at least some of the biblical scriptures were composed hundreds of years before the dates presented today in research. http://phys.org/news182101034.html Other Sciences Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:10:01 EST news182101034 (AP) -- Just in time for Christmas, archaeologists on Monday unveiled what may have been the home of one of Jesus' childhood neighbors. The humble dwelling is the first dating to the era of Jesus to be discovered in Nazareth, then a hamlet of around 50 impoverished Jewish families where Jesus spent his boyhood. http://phys.org/news180637757.html Other Sciences Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:00:08 EST news180637757 (AP) -- Archaeologists on Thursday hoisted a 9-ton temple pylon from the waters of the Mediterranean that was part of the palace complex of the fabled Cleopatra before it became submerged for centuries in the harbor of Alexandria. http://phys.org/news180291107.html Other Sciences Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:40:06 EST news180291107 (PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists from the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen have found proof that pre-historic people laid flowers at the graves of their dead. http://phys.org/news180119116.html Other Sciences Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:05:55 EST news180119116 (PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists studying a 7,000-year-old site in what is now south-west Germany have found evidence suggesting that more than 500 people may have been the victims of cannibalism. http://phys.org/news179393799.html Other Sciences Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:30:02 EST news179393799 New research at the University of Leicester has identified scores of Sicilian temples built to face the rising Sun, shedding light on the practices of the Ancient Greeks. http://phys.org/news178370030.html Other Sciences Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:20:48 EST news178370030 More than a year into an excavation project of the men's gymnasium that was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, Stanford university archaeologist Laura Jones' team has unearthed evidence suggesting why the newly complete building collapsed so spectacularly while so many other structures survived the violent temblor. http://phys.org/news177061460.html Other Sciences Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:20:06 EST news177061460 Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path between Tallahassee and North Carolina has been found until now, and few sites have been located anywhere. http://phys.org/news176636443.html Other Sciences Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:41:38 EST news176636443 Archaeologists surveying the world's oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 years ago -- at least 1,200 years earlier than originally thought. http://phys.org/news174906146.html Other Sciences Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:03:06 EST news174906146 Contestants on TV shows like Top Chef and Hell's Kitchen know that their meat-cutting skills will be scrutinized by a panel of unforgiving judges. Now, new archaeological evidence is getting the same scrutiny by scientists at Tel Aviv University and the University of Arizona. http://phys.org/news174740646.html Other Sciences Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:05:00 EST news174740646 Archaeologists have unveiled the remains of a revolving banquet room built by the Roman emperor Nero, who ruled between 54 and 68 BC and was famed for his depraved and extravagant lifestyle, a statement said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news174154217.html Other Sciences Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:20:16 EST news174154217 (PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have released an artist’s impression of what a second stone circle found a mile from Stonehenge might have looked like. http://phys.org/news174035874.html Other Sciences Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:10:01 EST news174035874 (AP) -- Archaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Britain's famous circle of standing stones at Stonehenge. http://phys.org/news173774861.html Other Sciences Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:48:25 EST news173774861 British archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an arena built early in the third century BC outside Ostia, the ancient imperial port 25 kilometres (16 miles) from Rome, the team leader said Friday. http://phys.org/news173710969.html Other Sciences Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:30:08 EST news173710969 The world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), is vulnerable to extinction and yet little is known about its natural history. New research by a team of palaeontologists and archaeologists from Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia, who studied fossil evidence from Australia, Timor, Flores, Java and India, shows that Komodo Dragons most likely evolved in Australia and dispersed westward to Indonesia. http://phys.org/news173515666.html Other Sciences Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:40:03 EST news173515666 (AP) -- Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled what they think are the remains of Roman emperor Nero's extravagant banquet hall, a circular space that rotated day and night to imitate the Earth's movement and impress his guests. http://phys.org/news173459540.html Other Sciences Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:30:06 EST news173459540 A skeleton, found at one of the most important, but least understood, Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts from The University of Nottingham. http://phys.org/news172234674.html Other Sciences Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:58:29 EST news172234674 (AP) -- Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to symbolize Judaism, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday. The menorah was engraved in stone around 2,000 years ago and found in a synagogue recently discovered by the Sea of Galilee. http://phys.org/news171910228.html Other Sciences Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:00:01 EST news171910228 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists has come one step closer to unravelling the mystery of how the famous statues dotting the landscape of a tiny Pacific island acquired their distinctive red hats. http://phys.org/news171546695.html Other Sciences Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:52:08 EST news171546695