Anthropology News

Posted May 9, 2002:

• Origin Of Bipedalism Seems Most Closely Tied To Environmental Changes
• Researchers Discover Clues To Whale Evolution

Posted April 18, 2002:

• Scientists Push Back Primate Origins From 65 Million To 85 Million Years Ago

Posted April 15, 2002:

• Medieval Black Death Was Probably Not Bubonic Plague

Posted March 27, 2002:

• University Of Alaska Biologist Tracking Extinct Bears

Posted March 25, 2002:

• Ethiopian Fossil Skull Indicates Homo Erectus Was Single, Widespread Species 1 Million Years Ago

Posted March 21, 2002:

• Discovery Supports Theory Of A Single Species Of Human Ancestor

Posted March 7, 2002:

• Humans Emerged "Out Of Africa" Again And Again

Posted February 19, 2002:

• Scientists Look To Europe As Evolutionary Seat

Posted December 14, 2001:

• Researchers Find Closest Living Relative Of First Land Plants

Posted December 6, 2001:

• Fossil Teeth Reveal Recent Origin Of Human Growth Pattern

Posted November 7, 2001:

• Researchers Zero In On Date Of Early Hominids

Posted October 23, 2001:

• Scientists Examine The Seas Our Ancestors Fished To Better Understand Today's Changing Oceans

Posted October 12, 2001:

• Rafting Rodents From Africa May Have Been Ancestors Of South American Species

Posted September 20, 2001:

• New Fossils Suggest Whales And Hippos Are Close Kin

Posted September 13, 2001:

• Pre-Neandertal Humans Developed Social Skills Earlier Than Thought

Posted August 2, 2001:

• Discovery Of Ax Heads Furthers Understanding Of Cahokian Society
• Artifact Analyses Dispute Assumptions About A Prehistoric Society

Posted July 30, 2001:

• Researchers Work To Prevent Decay Of Egyptian Antiquities

Posted July 12, 2001:

• Earliest Human Ancestors Discovered In Ethiopia; Discovery Of Bones And Teeth Date Fossils Back More Than 5.2 Million Years

Posted July 6, 2001:

• Destruction In Mesopotamia: Ancient Mysteries Fall Prey To Looters In Iraq, Science Feature Reveals

Posted June 19, 2001:

• Evidence Of Ancient El Ninos And Cultural Development

Posted May 15, 2001:

• Engineering Techniques Help Answer Questions On Ancient Egyptian Artwork

Posted May 11, 2001:

• Study Supports Out-Of-Africa Origin For East Asians

Posted May 10, 2001:

• UNC Work On Blackbeard Wreck Offers Chance To Develop Techniques, Reveal State, Nation's Past

Posted April 27, 2001:

• Field Museum Anthropologists Establish Date And Importance Of The Americas' Oldest City
• First Dinosaur Found With Its Body Covering Intact; Displays Primitive Feathers From Head To Toe

Posted March 22, 2001:

• Skull Of New Early Human Relative Found In Kenya -- Did Humans Descend From Lucy Or From Newly Discovered Creature?

Posted February 21, 2001:

• Anthropologist Examines The Power Of Water On Earth's Earliest Civilizations

Posted February 13, 2001:

• Genome Project Opens The Book On Human Evolution

Posted February 2, 2001:

• Archaeologist Finds Arizona's Ancient Hohokam Was Complex, Advanced Culture That May Have Reached The West Coast

Posted January 11, 2001:

• New Fossil Study Rejects "Eve Theory" And Supports Diverse Ancestry Of Modern Humans
• New Fossil Found In Mongolia Provides Insight Into The Origin Of Living Birds And The Evolution Of Flight

Posted December 21, 2000:

• Diet Diverged In Earliest Human Ancestors, Researchers Find

Posted December 13, 2000:

• Researchers Push Back The Clock On Native Farming History

Posted November 1, 2000:

• After 5,000 Year Voyage, World's Oldest Built Boats Deliver -- Archeologists' First Look Confirms Existence Of Earliest Royal Boats At Abydos

Posted October 22, 2000:

• Temple University And Smithsonian Researchers Find Earliest Direct Evidence Of Crop Cultivation In The Americas

Posted October 12, 2000:

• New Evidence Indicates Four Corners Puebloans Migrated Far South After 1300

Posted October 3, 2000:

• High-Resolution Acoustic System Detects Objects Buried In Soil

Posted October 2, 2000:

• Archaeologists Discover Ancient Untouched Tomb In Syria

Posted September 13, 2000:

• Study Provides Direct Evidence Of Cannibalism In The Southwest

Posted September 9, 2000:

• Vanderbilt Archaeological Team Unearths Buried Maya Royal Palace

Posted July 27, 2000:

• Ancient Mediterranean Port City May Have Been Holy Land Way Station

Posted June 25, 2000:

• Ancient Feathered Animal Challenges Dinosaur-Bird Link

Posted June 13, 2000:

• Meaty Discovery: Neandertal Bone Chemistry Provides Food For Thought

Posted May 31, 2000:

• Stone Tools Reveal Ancient Seafood Diet

Posted May 16, 2000:

• Images Of Evolution: DNA Leaves Fossils In The Dust

Posted May 12, 2000:

• Researchers Find Skull Remains Pointing To First Hominids Out Of Africa

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