Isotope analysis of the "bodies in the bog" found at Cramond reveals several crossed a politically divided Scotland, meeting their end hundreds of miles from their place of birth.
Archaeology
Mar 28, 2022
0
446
Ancient indigenous people in Peru had a unique response to the looting and destruction of their ancestors' graves during the European colonial period, an international team of archeologists has discovered.
Archaeology
Feb 1, 2022
0
72
Mobility shaped the human world profoundly long before the modern age. But archaeologists often struggle to create a timeline for the speed and impact of this mobility. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Danish ...
Archaeology
Dec 22, 2021
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498
Radiocarbon records are critical to understanding the history of Earth's climate, magnetic field, and the sun's activity, say researchers.
Earth Sciences
Nov 4, 2021
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114
Archeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily skewed by radiocarbon calibration curves and measurement uncertainty. ...
Archaeology
Sep 15, 2021
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1168
New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the core of the Easter Island myth didn't really happen.
Earth Sciences
Jul 13, 2021
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35
The Boker Tachtit archaeological excavation site in Israel's central Negev desert holds clues to one of the most significant events in human history: the spread of modern humans, Homo sapiens, from Africa into Eurasia, and ...
Archaeology
Jun 15, 2021
0
2017
An unexpected discovery by an Iowa State University researcher suggests that the first humans may have arrived in North America more than 30,000 years ago—nearly 20,000 years earlier than originally thought.
Archaeology
Jun 2, 2021
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1101
"It is machination, it is deception," said the director general of the Berlin Royal Museums in his defense when criticized for buying a fake. Wilhelm Bode did not budge an inch: The sculpture he acquired in 1909 was an as-yet ...
Archaeology
Apr 16, 2021
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43
Ancient DNA from Neandertals and early modern humans has recently shown that the groups likely interbred somewhere in the Near East after modern humans left Africa some 50,000 years ago. As a result, all people outside Africa ...
Evolution
Apr 7, 2021
4
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