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Plan Brokered By Archaeologists Would Remove Roadblock To Mideast Peace
April 14, 2008 — Israelis and Palestinians may not be able to agree right now on their present or future, but, if a pair of Los Angeles archaeologists have their way, they soon will see eye to eye on their past. ... > full story -
Ancient DNA: Reconstruction Of The Biological History Of A Human Society
April 11, 2008 — Archaeologists have reconstructed the history of the evolution of human population and answered questions about history, using DNA extracted from skeleton remains at the Aldaieta necropolis. It is ... > full story -
Archaeologist Helps Community By Keeping African Artifacts In Africa
April 11, 2008 — It is common for professional archaeologists and paleoanthropologists working in Africa to populate western museums with foreign artifacts by excavating and permanently removing them from history ... > full story -
Technique Traces Origins Of Disease Genes In Mixed Human Populations
April 9, 2008 — Researchers have developed a technique to detect the ancestry of disease genes in mixed human populations. The technique determines how a set of DNA markers shows the ancestral origin of locations on ... > full story -
Is Globalization as Old as the Earth?
April 4, 2008 — Archaeologists find ancient Jerusalem may be a model for today's corporations. As today's corporations know well, the strategy was all about location. Where did they set up their branch offices? In ... > full story -
Fossil From Last Common Ancestor Of Neanderthals And Humans Found In Europe, 1.2 Million Years Old
April 4, 2008 — Archaeologists have discovered the oldest known remains of human ancestors in Western Europe. The fossil is about 1.2 million years old. That's 500,000 years older than the previous oldest known ... > full story -
Scientists Reshape Y Chromosome Haplogroup Tree Gaining New Insights Into Human Ancestry
April 3, 2008 — The Y chromosome retains a remarkable record of human ancestry, passed directly from father to son. In an article in Genome Research, scientists have utilized recently described genetic variations on ... > full story -
Pre-Clovis Human DNA Found In 14,300-year-old Feces In Oregon Cave Is Oldest In New World
April 3, 2008 — DNA from dried human excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides ... > full story -
Natural Selection Protected Some East Asian Populations From Alcoholism, Study Suggests
April 3, 2008 — Changes in the environment in the last few thousand years may have protected some East Asians against alcoholism. Scientists have long known that many Asians carry variants of genes that help ... > full story -
Menopause Is An Adaptation To Minimize Reproductive Competition Between Females In A Family, Research Suggests
April 1, 2008 — Insight into why females of some species undergo menopause while others do not has proven elusive despite an understanding of the biological mechanisms behind the change. However, new research ... > full story -
Oldest Known Gold Artifacts In The Americas Discovered
April 1, 2008 — Gold has long been more than a fashion statement, and wearing jewelry and other adornments made of it often connotes prestige. And it did not take long for ancient people to figure that out. ... > full story -
Floating A Big Idea: Ancient Use Of Rafts To Transport Goods Demonstrated
March 22, 2008 — Oceangoing sailing rafts plied the waters of the equatorial Pacific long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, and carried trade goods for thousands of miles all the way from modern-day Chile to ... > full story
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