No one knows for certain why the Clovis people and iconic beasts—mastodon, mammoth and saber-toothed tiger - living some 12,800 years ago suddenly disappeared. However, a discovery of widespread platinum at archaeological ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 9, 2017
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When I started doing fieldwork in Borneo 17 years ago, most people thought of tropical forests as wildernesses, hostile to civilised human life and home only to vagrant, primitive people. Major textbooks portrayed these forests ...
Environment
Mar 3, 2017
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An international team of ecologists and social scientists has shown in a new study published 3 March in the journal Science that tree species domesticated and distributed throughout the Amazon basin by indigenous peoples ...
Environment
Mar 2, 2017
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The benefits of eating vegetables is one of the first lessons we try to teach our often reluctant children. Six million years ago, they wouldn't have had a choice. Our early ancestors ate nothing but greens, and relied on ...
Archaeology
Jan 24, 2017
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Humans likely established permanent settlements on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau between 13,000-7,400 years ago, according to new research published this week in the journal Science.
Earth Sciences
Jan 5, 2017
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Important archaeological remains at wetland sites across the world could be at immediate risk, say scientists at the University of York.
Environment
Oct 31, 2016
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Armed with my sharpened trowel, 3-meter tape, shovel, shaker screen and peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I joined my first dig as part of Binghamton University's Public Archaeology Facility back in 1975. Crews of archaeologists ...
Archaeology
Aug 26, 2016
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A study led by Antonio J. Romero at the UPV/EHU's Department of Geography, History and Archaeology and published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports has shown that human bites on bones have distinctive features ...
Archaeology
Aug 3, 2016
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Papyrus molders, stone etchings erode, memories wither and histories are rewritten. Teeth remain. Several thousand years from now, our teeth may document our lives more faithfully than any recording technology.
Archaeology
Jul 28, 2016
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Environmental records obtained from archaeological sites suggest climate may not have been directly linked to cultural and technological innovations of Middle Stone Age humans in southern Africa, according to a study published ...
Archaeology
Jul 6, 2016
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