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Is Tomorrow the End?
December 20, 2012 — End-of-the-world predictions are common in human history, but believers in the Mayan Doomsday claim don’t understand the Mayan calendar system, an anthropologist ... > full story -
Maya Expert Weighs in on Dec. 21 Apocalypse Theories
December 20, 2012 — Rusty Barrett, an expert on Mayan culture, weighed in on how the Mayan calendar works, discussed his research with the Mayan population, and shared his observations of the Maya's reactions to the ... > full story -
Archaeologists Date World's Oldest Timber Constructions
December 20, 2012 — A research team has succeeded in precisely dating four water wells built by the first Central European agricultural civilization with the help of dendrochronology or growth ring dating. The wells ... > full storyMore: -
Fine Hands, Fists of Fury: Our Hands Evolved for Punching, Not Just Dexterity
December 19, 2012 — Men whacked punching bags for a new study that suggests human hands evolved not only for the manual dexterity needed to use tools, play a violin or paint a work of art, but so men could make fists ... > full storyMore: -
Crisis in Syria Has Mesopotamian Precedent, Experts Say
December 18, 2012 — New research has revealed intriguing parallels between modern day and Bronze-Age Syria as the Mesopotamian region underwent urban decline, government collapse, and ... > full story -
Scientists Discover Evidence of Giant Panda's Population History and Local Adaptation
December 16, 2012 — A research team has successfully reconstructed the history of the giant panda from its origin to the ... > full story -
Scientists 'Surprised' to Discover Very Early Ancestors Survived on Tropical Plants, New Study Suggests
December 14, 2012 — Between three million and 3.5 million years ago, the diet of our very early ancestors in central Africa is likely to have consisted mainly of tropical grasses and sedges, new research ... > full story -
Tracing Humanity's African Ancestry May Mean Rewriting 'out of Africa' Dates
December 13, 2012 — New research may lead to a rethinking of how, when and from where our ancestors left Africa. Explorations in the Iringa region of southern Tanzania yielded fossils and other evidence that records the ... > full story -
Australian Multicellular Fossils Point to Life on Land, Not at Sea, Geologist Proposes
December 12, 2012 — Ancient multicellular fossils long thought to be ancestors of early marine life are remnants of land-dwelling lichen or other microbial colonies, says a University of Oregon scientist who has been ... > full story -
Chemical Analysis Reveals First Cheese-Making in Northern Europe 7,000 Years Ago
December 12, 2012 — Archeologists have the first unequivocal evidence that humans in prehistoric Northern Europe made cheese more than 7,000 years ... > full story
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