Ancient plant foods discovered in Arnhem Land
Australia's first plant foods—eaten by early populations 65,000 years ago—have been discovered in Arnhem Land.
Australia's first plant foods—eaten by early populations 65,000 years ago—have been discovered in Arnhem Land.
Archaeology
Feb 17, 2020
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Hundreds of years ago, colossal oysters were commonplace across much of Florida's northern Gulf Coast. Today, those oysters have disappeared, leaving behind a new generation roughly a third smaller—a massive decline that ...
Ecology
Feb 5, 2020
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Egypt's antiquities ministry on Thursday unveiled the tombs of ancient high priests and a sarcophagus dedicated to the sky god Horus at an archaeological site in Minya governorate.
Archaeology
Jan 30, 2020
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A new study, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals that Neanderthals made an intercontinental trek of more than 3000 km to reach Siberia's Altai Mountains, equipped with a ...
Archaeology
Jan 27, 2020
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Scientists have reconstructed the cooking techniques of the early inhabitants of Puerto Rico by analysing the remains of clams.
Archaeology
Nov 27, 2019
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Thousands of years ago, the inhabitants of modern-day Florida and the Caribbean feasted on sea turtles, leaving behind bones that tell tales of ancient diets and the ocean's past.
Archaeology
Nov 4, 2019
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The U.S. ambassador to Italy has returned to Italian officials the head of a statue stolen from an archaeological site in Rome in 1968.
Archaeology
Oct 24, 2019
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A new study on the long-term relationship between humans and clams in B.C."s Salish Sea is helping to inform modern marine resource management.
Plants & Animals
Oct 15, 2019
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Ancient rock paintings in Brazil's Monte Alegre park are being threatened by some of the fires burning in the Amazon region.
Archaeology
Oct 7, 2019
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An international team of researchers has analyzed remains from 10 archaeological sites in England, France, Germany, Russia and Switzerland to gain insight into the stages of the second plague pandemic (14th-18th centuries) ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 2, 2019
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