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How did people living in the Bronze Age manage their finances before money became widespread? Researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and Rome have discovered that bronze scrap found in hoards in Europe circulated as a currency.
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Australia’s ‘black summer’ of bushfires was depicted on the front pages of the world’s media with images of wildlife and habitat destruction, caused by climate change, while in Australia the toll on ordinary people remained the visual front-page focus.
Read moreA new focus in English linguistics
Read moreAdults are more compassionate and are up to twice as likely to donate to charity when children are present, according
Read moreFossil pollen records from across the Amazon basin suggest that depopulation and resulting forest regrowth in Amazonia began centuries before
Read moreThe decision to donate to a charity is often driven by emotion rather than by calculated assessments based on how
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A new study is the first-ever to identify the genes for creativity in Homo sapiens that distinguish modern humans from chimpanzees and Neanderthals.
Read moreLifelong burden of higher stress hormones shortens life expectancy
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How did the first humans migrate to populate North America? It’s one of the great scientific puzzles of our day, especially because forbidding glaciers covered most of Canada, Alaska and Pacific Northwest during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).
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Whatever ultimately caused inhabitants to abandon Cahokia, it was not because they cut down too many trees, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
Read moreModern human-like brains evolved comparatively late in the genus Homo and long after the earliest humans first dispersed from Africa,
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An international research team has sequenced the genomes of the oldest securely dated modern humans in Europe who lived around 45,000 years ago in Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria.
Read moreStruggle for dominance leaves a mark on genes and speeds up aging
Read moreIn one Madagascar forest, the trees teem with lemurs. In another forest just 150 miles away, the last few individuals of a small local population may soon be lost. Scientists are joining up to figure out how to best support these two endangered species.
Read moreNew book suggests the treaty states’ efforts to promote their own national interests have become increasingly uncompromising
Read moreCollaboration between Leipzig University, the University of Tübingen and the Technical University of Darmstadt
Read moreAre we really living in a polarized world? A mathematical model reveals surprises — particularly about people in the middle.
Read moreThe first in-depth look at the human ability to decode the range of emotions tied to the acoustic cues of screams
Read moreMachine learning opens new doors in archaeology
Read moreResearchers explore the motivations and challenges of Indonesian women in conservation sciences
Read moreClimate labels informing us of a meat product’s carbon footprint cause many people to opt for climate-friendlier alternatives. This applies
Read moreA new study published in the journal Climatic Change examines the cultural impacts of climate change in Italy during the first millennium AD
Read moreBecause of their interactions and conflicts with the major contemporaneous civilizations of Eurasia, the Scythians enjoy a legendary status in
Read moreOf the vast diversity of plants on Earth, only a few evolved to become prominent agricultural crops. Scholars now suggest they originally evolved to secure mutualistic relationships with now-extinct megafauna
Read moreResearch shows that children prefer to befriend, listen to, and imitate people who speak similarly to them. While most of
Read moreA 30-year study of coverage finds that television news and ESPN’s SportsCenter continue to ignore women’s sports
Read moreStates with more collective governance had more similarly sized houses
Read moreScholars of archaeology, geography, history and paleoclimatology lay out a new framework for uncovering climate-society interactions
Read moreA study of ancient bones shows that Early Neolithic sheep-breeders were faced with high levels of mortality among young animals
Read moreAccording to nationally-representative surveys in the United States, hundreds of thousands of straight-identified men have had sex with other men.
Read moreArticulating lingual life histories and language ideological assemblages
Read moreRestaurants in Central African urban areas are key drivers in keeping protected wildlife on the menu
Read moreScientists have witnessed bonobo apes adopting infants who were born outside of their social group for the first time in
Read moreUniversity of Bath press release
Read moreStudy sets the stage to learn about development of psychopathology and resilience among ethnically diverse children growing up in low resource contexts
Read moreArchaeologists describe rare Lower Murray find
Read moreLemurs use olfactory cues carried by the wind to locate cantaloupe hidden in the forest
Read moreNeurotechnology: The decline of freedom or new horizons for human development?
Read moreAjpach’ Waal forged an alliance between two dynasties but died in obscurity
Read moreValues have changed from decade to decade, often reflecting shifts in the broader culture
Read moreImages As far back as the Greek historian Herodotus, a group of people called the Scythians were considered highly mobile
Read more‘Plain of Jars’ dates put at 1240 to 660 BCE
Read moreIn previous research, ancient massacre sites found men who died while pitted in battle or discovered executions of targeted families.
Read moreBlack men face near-daily discrimination despite financial and educational success
Read moreResearchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have collaborated on two studies examining the socioeconomic factors involved in the spread
Read moreNew analysis details how Finland’s genetic makeup changed throughout the 20th Century
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Neandertals — the closest ancestor to modern humans — possessed the ability to perceive and produce human speech, according to a new study published by an international multidisciplinary team of researchers including Binghamton University anthropology professor Rolf Quam and graduate student Alex Velez.
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Artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, with help from the George Washington University and University of Maryland, has launched a digital version of ‘IN AMERICA How Could This Happen…’ in an effort to continue honoring those who have died and the deaths yet to come.
Read moreAccolade for innovative live performance record
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