New Mexico mammoths among best evidence for early humans in North America
About 37,000 years ago, a mother mammoth and her calf met their end at the hands of human beings.
Archaeology
Aug 01, 2022
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News tagged with stone
What happened at Arthur's Stone? 5,000-year-old monument connected to King Arthur excavated
Some say King Arthur slayed a giant there. Others say he knelt in prayer and his knee print indentations are forever etched into the stone.
Archaeology
Jul 13, 2022
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Theoretical model describing the motion of ultrasound waves in the presence of multiple bubbles
Scientists from the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba created a theoretical model for describing the motion of ultrasound waves in the presence of multiple bubbles. This work ...
General Physics
Jul 11, 2022
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500-million-year-old fossilized brains of Stanleycaris prompt a rethink of the evolution of insects and spiders
Royal Ontario Museum revealed new research based on a cache of fossils that contains the brain and nervous system of a half-billion-year-old marine predator from the Burgess Shale called Stanleycaris. Stanleycaris belonged ...
Evolution
Jul 08, 2022
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Early stone tools were not rocket science
Archaeologically excavated stone tools—some as much as 2.6 million years old—have been hailed as evidence for an early cultural heritage in human evolution. But are these tools proof that our ancestors were already becoming ...
Archaeology
Jul 06, 2022
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Archaeologists carry out first dig at tomb linked to King Arthur
Archaeologists from The University of Manchester have started a dig at a 5,000-year-old tomb linked to King Arthur, hoping to answer some of the mysteries surrounding the enigmatic site in the process.
Archaeology
Jul 05, 2022
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Research into oldest known burial field in the Netherlands sheds new light on traditional gender roles
New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 years ago were less traditional than was thought. The research was conducted ...
Archaeology
Jun 30, 2022
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Australia's first marine Aboriginal archaeological site questioned
A new study from The University of Western Australia has challenged earlier claims that Aboriginal stone artifacts discovered off the Pilbara coast in Western Australia represent Australia's first undisturbed underwater archaeological ...
Archaeology
Jun 21, 2022
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Fruit fly stem cells are able to remodel themselves in response to kidney stones
Recent work from Carnegie's Chenhui Wang and Allan Spradling reveals a surprising capability of renal stem cells in fruit flies—remodeling. Their work, which could eventually guide kidney stone treatments, was published ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 16, 2022
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65,000-year-old 'stone Swiss Army knives' show early humans had long-distance social networks
Humans are the only species to live in every environmental niche in the world—from the icesheets to the deserts, rainforests to savannahs. As individuals we are rather puny, but when we are socially connected, we are the ...
Archaeology
Jun 10, 2022
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