Anthropology News

Posted April 30, 2008:

• New Findings Challenge Conventional Ideas On Evolution Of Human Diet, Natural Selection
• Ancient Sunflower Fuels Debate About Agriculture In The Americas

Posted April 25, 2008:

• Freshwater Herring Had Salty Origin
• Early Human Populations Evolved Separately For 100,000 Years

Posted April 22, 2008:

• Ancient Buddhist Paintings From Bamiyan Were Made Of Oil, Hundreds Of Years Before Technique Was 'Invented' In Europe

Posted April 21, 2008:

• Slowly-developing Primates Definitely Not Dim-witted
• Neanderthals Speak Again After 30,000 Years

Posted April 20, 2008:

• Early Elephant 'Was Amphibious'

Posted April 18, 2008:

• Unearthing Clues Of Catastrophic Earthquakes

Posted April 17, 2008:

• Clues To Ancestral Origin Of Placenta Emerge In Genetics Study

Posted April 14, 2008:

• Plan Brokered By Archaeologists Would Remove Roadblock To Mideast Peace

Posted April 11, 2008:

• Ancient DNA: Reconstruction Of The Biological History Of A Human Society
• Archaeologist Helps Community By Keeping African Artifacts In Africa

Posted April 9, 2008:

• Technique Traces Origins Of Disease Genes In Mixed Human Populations

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Is Globalization as Old as the Earth?
• Fossil From Last Common Ancestor Of Neanderthals And Humans Found In Europe, 1.2 Million Years Old

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Scientists Reshape Y Chromosome Haplogroup Tree Gaining New Insights Into Human Ancestry
• Pre-Clovis Human DNA Found In 14,300-year-old Feces In Oregon Cave Is Oldest In New World
• Natural Selection Protected Some East Asian Populations From Alcoholism, Study Suggests

Posted April 1, 2008:

• Menopause Is An Adaptation To Minimize Reproductive Competition Between Females In A Family, Research Suggests
• Oldest Known Gold Artifacts In The Americas Discovered

Posted March 22, 2008:

• Floating A Big Idea: Ancient Use Of Rafts To Transport Goods Demonstrated

Posted March 21, 2008:

• Upright Walking Began 6 Million Years Ago, Thigh Bone Comparison Suggests
• Forecasting Tsunami Threats Through Layers Of Sand And Time
• Early Americans Arrived Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed

Posted March 20, 2008:

• Skulls Of Modern Humans And Ancient Neanderthals Evolved Differently Because Of Chance, Not Natural Selection

Posted March 18, 2008:

• Gold Scroll Discovered: Earliest Evidence Of Jewish Inhabitants In Austria

Posted March 13, 2008:

• Domestication Of The Donkey May Have Taken A Long Time

Posted March 11, 2008:

• Micronesian Islands Colonized By Small-bodied Humans

Posted March 7, 2008:

• Evidence Of Commerce Between Ancient Israel And China

Posted March 5, 2008:

• Giant Fossil Bats Out Of Africa, 35 Million Years Old
• Innovative Archaeological Survey Reveals Unknown Aspects Of China's Past

Posted March 4, 2008:

• New Discovery Of 'Old Growth' Crystals Provides New Record Of Planetary Evolution

Posted February 29, 2008:

• Enormous Jurassic Sea Predator, Pliosaur, Discovered In Norway
• Chimps May Have A 'Language-ready' Brain

Posted February 28, 2008:

• Centuries-old Maya Blue Mystery Finally Solved

Posted February 26, 2008:

• Royals Weren't Only Builders Of Maya Temples, Archaeologist Finds

Posted February 21, 2008:

• No Easy Answers In Evolution Of Human Language
• Most Detailed Global Study Of Genetic Variation Completed

Posted February 20, 2008:

• Human Culture Subject To Natural Selection, Study Shows
• Genome Of Marine Organism Tells Of Humans' Unicellular Ancestors

Posted February 19, 2008:

• Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken: Name Brands Far Predating Modern Capitalism

Posted February 18, 2008:

• There Is 'Design' In Nature, Biologist Argues
• Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement Unearthed

Posted February 15, 2008:

• Neanderthals Moved From Place To Place, Tooth Analysis Shows

Posted February 13, 2008:

• Thousands Of Humans Inhabited New World's Doorstep For 20,000 Years

Posted February 11, 2008:

• Archaeologists Discover Roman Fort In Cornwall, England

Posted February 8, 2008:

• Mummy Lice Found In Peru May Give New Clues About Human Migration

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