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Forensic Science Used to Determine Who's Who in Pre-Columbian Peru
April 22, 2012 — Analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been used to establish migration and population patterns for American indigenous cultures during the time before Christopher Columbus sailed to the ... > full story -
Warning Signs from Ancient Greek Tsunami
April 19, 2012 — In the winter of 479 B.C., a tsunami was the savior of Potidaea, drowning hundreds of Persian invaders as they lay siege to the ancient Greek village. New geological evidence suggests that the region ... > full story -
Discovery of the First Evidence for Pre-Columbian Sources of Maya Blue
April 2, 2012 — A team of scientists has established a link between contemporary indigenous knowledge and ancient sources of a mineral in the pigment known as Maya Blue. They have demonstrated that the palygorskite ... > full story -
Ancient Egyptian Cotton Unveils Secrets of Domesticated Crop Evolution
April 2, 2012 — Scientists studying 1,600-year-old cotton from the banks of the Nile have found what they believe is the first evidence that punctuated evolution has occurred in a major crop group within the ... > full story -
DNA Traces Cattle Back to a Small Herd Domesticated Around 10,500 Years Ago
March 27, 2012 — All cattle are descended from as few as 80 animals that were domesticated from wild ox in the Near East some 10,500 years ago, according to a new genetic ... > full story -
Evidence Stacks Up That Monolith at Gardom's Edge Is Astronomically Aligned
March 27, 2012 — Researchers have gathered new evidence that a 4000-year-old monolith was aligned to be an astronomical marker. The 2.2 meter high monument, located in the Peak District National Park, has a ... > full story -
Ancient Civilizations Reveal Ways to Manage Fisheries for Sustainability
March 23, 2012 — In the search for sustainability of the ocean's fisheries, solutions can be found in a surprising place: the ancient past. Marine scientists reconstructed fisheries yields over seven centuries of ... > full story -
Spotting Ancient Sites, from Space
March 19, 2012 — An archaeologist has dramatically simplified the process of finding early human settlements by using computers to scour satellite images for the tell-tale clues of human habitation, and in the ... > full story -
The Viking Journey of Mice and Men
March 19, 2012 — House mice happily live wherever there are humans. When populations of humans migrate the mice often travel with them. New research has used evolutionary techniques on modern day and ancestral mouse ... > full story -
Identifying Ancient Droughts in China
March 8, 2012 — Drought events are largely unknown in Earth's history, because reconstruction of ancient hydrological conditions remains difficult due to lack of proxy. New research uses a microbial lipid proxy of ... > full story
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