Anthropology News

Posted October 1, 2006:

• Silver Anomalies Found In Jerusalem Pottery Hint At Wealth During Second Temple Period
• New Fingerprinting For Art Authentication

Posted September 28, 2006:

• Geologists Help Find And Explain Earliest Known Human Ancestor Child

Posted September 21, 2006:

• Earliest Baby Girl Ever Discovered: Australopithecus Afarensis Child Sheds Light On Human Evolution

Posted September 20, 2006:

• Mechanism To Organize Nervous System Conserved In Evolution

Posted September 15, 2006:

• Researchers Find Evidence Of The Earliest Writing In The New World
• Paleontologists Find 67 Dinosaurs In One Week

Posted September 10, 2006:

• Climate Change Rocked Cradles Of Civilization
• Cognitive Strategy Shared By Human Infants And Great-Ape Kin

Posted September 8, 2006:

• Modern Humans, Not Neandertals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out'
• How Did Our Ancestors' Minds Really Work?

Posted September 5, 2006:

• Social Imitation In Neonatal Monkeys

Posted August 30, 2006:

• Chimpanzees Can Transmit Cultural Behavior To Multiple 'Generations'
• Ancient Raptors Likely Feasted On Early Man, Study Suggests

Posted August 28, 2006:

• How Modern Were European Neanderthals?

Posted August 26, 2006:

• Use Of Stone Hammers Sheds Light On Geographic Patterns Of Chimpanzee Tool Use

Posted August 25, 2006:

• Remote Island Provides Clues On Population Growth, Environmental Degradation
• No Hobbits In This Shire: Researchers Say Skeletal Remains Are Pygmy Ancestors

Posted August 17, 2006:

• Newly Discovered Gene May Hold Clues To Evolution Of Human Brain Capacity

Posted August 1, 2006:

• Evidence Of Rapid Evolution Is Found At The Tips Of Chromosomes
• Radiocarbon Testing Challenges Understanding Of Ancient Hawaiian Architecture, Social Complexity

Posted July 30, 2006:

• Archaeologists Hot On The Trail Of Columbus' Sunken Ships

Posted July 26, 2006:

• Scientists Discover Evolutionary Origin Of Fins, Limbs
• Ancient Global Warming Drove Early Primates' Dispersal

Posted July 24, 2006:

• Shared Ancestor To Humans, Present-Day Non-Human Primates May Be Linchpin In Evolution Of Language

Posted July 20, 2006:

• Germans Set Up An Apartheid-Like Society In Britain
• Neandertal Genome To Be Deciphered

Posted July 13, 2006:

• Scientists Discover An Ancient Predator-Prey Relationship

Posted June 30, 2006:

• Etruscan Expert Announces Historic Discovery At Ancient Site

Posted June 26, 2006:

• Bones Of Baby Ice Age Sloth Carefully Reconstructed

Posted June 25, 2006:

• Spider Silk Researchers Uncover Treasure Trove Of Genetic Information About The Wonder Fibers

Posted June 24, 2006:

• Earliest Known 'Bling' Revealed

Posted June 16, 2006:

• HIV-1's High Virulence Might Be An Accident Of Evolution

Posted June 13, 2006:

• Some Genetic Research Is Best Done Close To The Evolutionary Home
• Backs To The Future: Aymara Language And Gesture Point To Mirror-Image View Of Time

Posted June 7, 2006:

• 100,000 Year-Old DNA Sequence Allows New Look At Neandertal's Genetic Diversity

Posted June 4, 2006:

• Tamed 11,400 Years Ago, Figs Were Likely First Domesticated Crop

Posted May 26, 2006:

• Ancient Etruscans Unlikely Ancestors Of Modern Tuscans, Statistical Testing Reveals

Posted May 23, 2006:

• How Ancient Whales Lost Their Legs, Got Sleek And Conquered The Oceans

Posted May 19, 2006:

• Scientists Scuttle Claims That 'Hobbit' Fossil From Flores, Indonesia, Is A New Hominid

Posted May 18, 2006:

• Human And Chimp Genomes Reveal New Twist On Origin Of Species

Posted May 17, 2006:

• Coral Reef Reveals History Of Fickle Weather In The Central Pacific

Posted May 13, 2006:

• Massive Duplication Of Genes May Solve Darwin's 'Abominable Mystery' About Flowering Plants

Posted May 10, 2006:

• Evolutionary Forces Explain Why Women Live Longer Than Men

Posted May 3, 2006:

• Mobile DNA Part Of Evolution's Toolbox

Posted May 1, 2006:

• UCLA Egyptologists To Launch New E-Encyclopedia

Posted April 30, 2006:

• A Site To Be Seen: Ancient Earthworks Electronically Rebuilt, To Become A Traveling Exhibit

Posted April 29, 2006:

• New Evidence Suggests The Need To Rewrite Bronze Age History

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