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Study highlights need to replace ‘ancestry’ in forensics with something more accurate
A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in inconsistent ways, and calls for the discipline to adopt a new approach to better account for both the fluidity of populations and how historical events have…
Resilience, not collapse: What the Easter Island myth gets wrong
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the core of the Easter Island myth didn’t really happen. You probably know this story, or a version of it: On…
Ancient ostrich eggshell reveals new evidence of extreme climate change thousands of years ago
Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced by human early ancestors. The research shows parts of the interior of South Africa that today are dry and sparsely populated, were once wetland…
CWRU receives $1.2M W.M. Keck Foundation grant to determine ecological factors affect the evolution of our ancestors
Professor Beverly Saylor leads interdisciplinary global group applying state-of-the art technology to answer ancient questions
Leonardo Da Vinci: New family tree spans 21 generations, 690 years, finds 14 living male descendants
Paper offers foundation to advance search for Leonardo’s DNA
How can ‘shark dandruff’ contribute to coral reef conservation?
For 400 million years, shark-like fishes have prowled the oceans as predators, but now humans kill 100 million sharks per year, radically disrupting ocean food chains. Based on microscopic shark scales found on fossil- and modern coral reefs in Caribbean…
After routing de Soto, Chickasaws repurposed Spanish objects for everyday use
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Archaeologists have unearthed a rare trove of more than 80 metal objects in Mississippi thought to be from Hernando de Soto’s 16th-century expedition through the Southeast. Many of the objects were repurposed by the resident Chickasaws as…
New book highlights need for Chaco Canyon preservation
Lincoln, Nebraska, July 1, 2021 — Carrie Heitman can still remember the moment when — as an undergraduate visiting for the first time — Chaco Culture National Historic Park became the cornerstone of her academic career in anthropology. “You have…
Digging into the molecules of fossilized dinosaur eggshells
Dinosaurs roamed the Earth more than 65 million years ago, and paleontologists and amateur fossil hunters are still unearthing traces of them today. The minerals in fossilized eggs and shell fragments provide snapshots into these creatures’ early lives, as well…
Bronze Age Scandinavia’s trading networks for copper settled
Crossing the North Sea before crossing the Alps!
Indigenous mortality following Spanish colonization did not always lead to forest regrowth
A new study, published now in Nature Ecology and Evolution , draws on pollen records from tropical regions formerly claimed by the Spanish Empire in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, to test the significance and extent of forest regrowth…
Indigenous peoples were stewards of the Western Amazon
Study points to a history of indigenous sustainable use of the Western Amazon stretching back 5,000 years
10,000-year-old DNA pens the first tales of the earliest domesticated goats
New research has revealed the genetic makeup of the earliest goat herds. The findings, assimilated from DNA taken from the remains of 32 goats that died some 10,000 years ago in the Zagros mountains, provide clues to how early agricultural…
Study sheds light on pre-Columbian life in understudied area of SW Amazon
Evidence showing intensive land use for farming and fishing more than 3,500 years ago helps researchers better understand the history of a culturally significant area and is counter to the often-held notion of a pristine Amazon before Europeans arrived
Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than modern fowl because they were seen as sacred, not food — study shows
Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than their modern equivalents because they were seen as sacred – not food – archaeologists have found. Experts have developed the first reliable method of finding the age of fowl who lived thousands of years…
Provenance: How an object’s origin can facilitate authentic, inclusive storytelling
Archivists assess, collect and preserve various artifacts and archive them to better understand their origin and cultural heritage.
Half of Guadeloupe’s snakes and lizards went extinct after European colonization
Researchers use fossil data to reveal the primary drivers and extent of colonial era extinctions
200-year-old poop shows rural elites in New England had parasitic infections
Study finds parasites in fecal samples from the 1830s-1840s in privy on Dartmouth’s campus
Mummified parrots point to trade in the ancient Atacama desert
Ancient Egyptians mummified cats, dogs, ibises and other animals, but closer to home in the South American Atacama desert, parrot mummies reveal that between 1100 and 1450 CE, trade from other areas brought parrots and macaws to oasis communities, according…
Ancient Maya houses show wealth inequality is tied to despotic governance
States with more collective governance had more similarly sized houses
Worth one’s salt
Researchers at LSU uncover more on the ancient Maya commodity
An ancient Maya ambassador’s bones show a life of privilege and hardship
Ajpach’ Waal forged an alliance between two dynasties but died in obscurity
Extracting information from ancient teeth
There’s a surprising amount of information stored in the hardened plaque, or calculus, between teeth. And if that calculus belongs to the remains of a person who lived in ancient times, the information could reveal new insights about the past.…
Fossil lamprey larvae overturn textbook assumptions on vertebrate origins
Study shows studies of the origin of vertebrates – including human – were based on incorrect assumptions since the late 1800s
Woolly mammoths may have shared the landscape with first humans in New England
Researchers trace the age of a rib fragment of the Mount Holly mammoth
Study: Bahamas were settled earlier than believed
It’s believed early settlers to the islands eventually changed the landscape of the Bahamas
Neandertals had the capacity to perceive and produce human speech
BINGHAMTON, NY — 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…
UNESCO listing for AusStage
Accolade for innovative live performance record
New dating techniques reveal Australia’s oldest known rock painting, and it’s a kangaroo
Two-meter kangaroo painting thought to be 17,300 years old
Like it or not, history shows that taxes and bureaucracy are cornerstones of democracy
Statistical analysis of 30-premodern societies links economic systems and democracy–and yields insights for today
Climate change likely drove the extinction of North America’s largest animals
New research suggests that overhunting by humans was not responsible for the extinction of mammoths, ground sloths, and other North American megafauna.
Ancient Amazonian farmers fortified valuable land they had spent years making fertile to protect it
Ancient Amazonian communities fortified valuable land they had spent years making fertile to protect it from conflict, excavations show. Farmers in Bolivia constructed wooden defences around previously nutrient-poor tropical soils they had enriched over generations to keep them safe during…
Genes for face shape identified
Genes that determine the shape of a person’s facial profile have been discovered by a UCL-led research team. The researchers identified 32 gene regions that influenced facial features such as nose, lip, jaw, and brow shape, nine of which were…
Horse remains reveal new insights into how Native peoples raised horses
A new analysis of a horse previously believed to be from the Ice Age shows that the animal actually died just a few hundred years ago–and was raised, ridden and cared for by Native peoples. The study sheds light on…
New findings on devonian ‘platypus fish’ cast light on evolution of modern jawed vertebrates
New findings on the brain and inner ear cavity of a 400-million-year-old platypus-like fish cast light on the evolution of modern jawed vertebrates, according to a study led by Dr. ZHU Youan and Dr. LU Jing from the Institute of…
First people to enter the Americas likely did so with their dogs
The first people to settle in the Americas likely brought their own canine companions with them, according to new research which sheds more light on the origin of dogs. An international team of researchers led by archaeologist Dr Angela Perri,…
Discovery of 66 new Roman Army sites shows more clues about one of the empire
Discovery of 66 new Roman Army sites shows more clues about one of the empire’s most infamous conflicts
Ancient DNA continues to rewrite corn’s 9,000-year society-shaping history
Three 2,000-year-old cobs in Honduras show that people brought corn varieties back to Mesoamerica, possibly sparking productivity and shaping civilization
Warm oceans helped first human migration from Asia to North America
New research reveals significant changes to the circulation of the North Pacific and its impact on the initial migration of humans from Asia to North America. The new international study led by the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at…
Paleontologists find pterosaur precursors that fill a gap in early evolutionary history
Here’s the original story of flight. Sorry, Wright Brothers, but this story began way before your time – during the Age of the Dinosaurs. Pterosaurs were the earliest reptiles to evolve powered flight, dominating the skies for 150 million years…
Glass beads from medieval sites suggest more complex trade networks
Article Title: “Compositional and provenance study of glass beads from archaeological sites in Mali and Senegal at the time of the first Sahelian states” Funding: This study has benefitted from funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no 101211_163022…
Early human landscape modifications discovered in Amazonia
No evidence of extensive savannah formations during the current Holocene period
A more resistant material against microorganisms is created to restore cultural heritage
Solar radiation, rain, humidity and extreme temperatures. Cultural heritage is exposed to an array of external factors that deteriorate it over time. Among them, the most aggressive may well be microbial contamination, caused by an ample ecosystem of fungi, algae,…
Texas A&M expert: New clues revealed about Clovis people
A study by professor Michael Waters shows that tools made by some of North America’s earliest inhabitants were made only during a 300-year period.
Ancient Maya built sophisticated water filters
Maya imported zeolite and quartz to filter drinking water
When good governments go bad
History shows that societies collapse when leaders undermine social contracts
Diet of pre-Columbian societies in the Brazilian Amazon reconstructed
An international study led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Prehistory at the UAB has reconstructed the diets of pre-Columbian groups on the Amazon coast of Brazil, showing that tropical agroforestry was regionally…
True size of prehistoric mega-shark finally revealed
A new study led by Swansea University and the University of Bristol has revealed the size of the legendary giant shark Megalodon, including fins that are as large as an adult human.
Drone survey reveals large earthwork at ancestral Wichita site in Kansas
Results show possible council circle at what may be Etzanoa near Wichita