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The path to history is through the stomach

(PhysOrg.com) -- Helicobacter pylori can cause stomach ulcers and cancers. Over half of the world’s inhabitants carrys this bacterium, but different variants are present on different continents. Up to now, ...

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created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1




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Oldest Jewish archaeological evidence on the Iberian Peninsula

German archaeologists of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena found one of the oldest archaeological evidence so far of Jewish Culture on the Iberian Peninsula at an excavation site in the south of Portugal, ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 12

Oldest art even older

New dates from Geißenklösterle Cave in Southwest Germany document the early arrival of modern humans and early appearance of art and music.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 10

Archaeologist finds first evidence of cult in Judah at time of King David

Prof. Yosef Garfinkel, the Yigal Yadin Professor of Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, announced today the discovery of objects that for the first time shed ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8

A new glimpse into ancient human history

Analyzing DNA from four ancient skeletons and comparing it with thousands of genetic samples from living humans, a group of Scandinavian scientists reported that agriculture initially spread through Europe because farmers ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Study: 800-year-old farmers could teach us how to protect the Amazon

In the face of mass deforestation of the Amazon, we could learn from its earliest inhabitants who managed their farmland sustainably. Research from an international team of archaeologists and paleoecologists, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Team seeks to learn how humans adapt to high places

How did early humans learn to live at the highest altitudes on earth?

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created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru

People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...

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created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Hubble pinpoints furthest protocluster of galaxies ever seen

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of development, making it the most distant such grouping ever observed in ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 42 | with audio podcast

First-known ginglymodian fish found from the middle triassic of Eastern Yunnan Province, China

The Ginglymodi are a group of ray-finned fishes that make up one of three major subdivisions of the infraclass Neopterygii. Extant ginglymodians are represented by gars, which inhabit freshwater environments ...

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created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gone fishing? We have for 42,000 years

(PhysOrg.com) -- An archaeologist from The Australian National University has uncovered the world’s oldest evidence of deep sea fishing for big fish, showing that 42,000 years ago our regional ancestors ...

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created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast


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