Ostrich eggshell beads are some of the oldest ornaments made by humankind, and they can be found dating back at least 50,000 years in Africa. Previous research in southern Africa has shown that the beads increase in size ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 27, 2019
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Patricia Bello-Alonso of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has reported on experimental results for the traceological interpretation of activities carried out using stone tools made ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 30, 2019
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Fire starting is a skill that many modern humans struggle with in the absence of a lighter or matches. The earliest humans likely harvested fire from natural sources, yet when our ancestors learned the skills to set fire ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 25, 2019
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In an interdisciplinary study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, an international research team has combined archaeological, genetic and stable isotope data to understand the demographic processes associated ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 09, 2019
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So-called "mega-structures" in ancient Europe were public buildings that likely served a variety of economic and political purposes, according to a study released September 25, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 25, 2019
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They were once considered our inferior, brutish relatives, but now researchers are using the story behind early humans to help teenagers understand their emotions.
Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 10, 2019
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Strange ring-shaped objects in a Bronze Age hillfort site represent a unique form of cereal-based product, according to a study published June 5, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andreas G. Heiss of the Austrian ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 05, 2019
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A collaborative study led by archaeologists, geneticists and museum curators is providing answers to previously unsolved questions about life in sub-Saharan Africa thousands of years ago. The results were published online ...
Archaeology & Fossils
May 30, 2019
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History can tell us a lot about the Crusades, the series of religious wars fought between 1095 and 1291, in which Christian invaders tried to claim the Near East. But the DNA of nine 13th century Crusaders buried in a pit ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 18, 2019
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Marine scientists from the University of Queensland, WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups have developed a methodology to assess fish stocks that combines new data with archeological and historical records—some ...
Ecology
Feb 13, 2019
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