News tagged with human artifact
Paleo-Indians settled North America earlier than thought: study
New discoveries at a Central Texas archaeological site by a Texas A&M University-led research team prove that people lived in the region far earlier – as much as 2,500 years earlier – than previously ...
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Mar 24, 2011 |
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Gulf exploration yields evidence of raw materials used by early Americans
In one of the more dramatic moments of an underwater archaeological survey co-led by Mercyhurst College archaeologist James Adovasio along Florida's Gulf Coast this summer, Andy Hemmings stood on an inundated ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Evidence suggests Neanderthals took to boats before modern humans
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neanderthals, considered either a sub-species of modern humans or a separate species altogether, lived from approximately 300,000 years ago to somewhere near 24,000 years ago, when they inexplicably ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Virtual possessions have powerful hold on teenagers, researchers say
Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today's online world may be as precious to teenagers as a favorite book that a parent once read to them or a t-shirt ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 09, 2011 |
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Modern humans reached Arabia earlier than thought, new artifacts suggest
Artifacts unearthed in the United Arab Emirates date back 100,000 years and imply that modern humans first left Africa much earlier than researchers had expected, a new study reports. In light of their excavation, ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 27, 2011 |
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Ancient Humans Left Evidence from the Party that Ended 4,000 Years Ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, University of Missouri researchers have ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Debate unfolds over origin of grouped stones at lake's bottom
Forty feet below the surface of Lake Michigan in Grand Traverse Bay, a mysterious pattern of stones can be seen rising from an otherwise sandy half-mile of lake floor.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Stone cutting tools link early humans to prehistoric India
Dating of recently discovered artifacts in South India indicates that early humans lived in the region more than a million years ago, and that they used distinct 'Acheulian' stone cutting tools, a new study ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 25, 2011 |
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In Brief: Social inequality among Pueblo Indians
A study in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that social hierarchies may have emerged within Southwestern Native American society as early as the 9th century.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 09, 2010 |
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