News tagged with ancient peoples

Continents influenced human migration, spread of technology

How modern-day humans dispersed on the planet and the pace of civilization-changing technologies that accompanied their migrations are enduring mysteries. Scholars believe ancient peoples on Europe and Asia moved primarily ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Paleontologists turning to neural networks to find new dig sites

(PhysOrg.com) -- For hundreds, if not thousands of years, researchers of one kind or another have dug into the earth in search of clues to help explain our past. In so doing they have found evidence of ancient peoples that ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

How chemistry can reveal the secrets of ancient worlds

The day-to-day lives of prehistoric humans have been revealed following new research developed by chemists at the University of Bristol. The research, which combines archaeology with cutting-edge chemistry ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0