Anthropology News

Posted December 30, 2010:

• Neandertals’ Extinction Not Caused by Deficient Diets, Tooth Analysis Shows

Posted December 28, 2010:

• Secrets of an Ancient Tel Aviv Fortress Revealed

Posted December 22, 2010:

• Fossil Finger Bone Yields Genome of a Previously Unknown Human Relative
• Learning from Leftovers: A History Drawn from Turkey Bones

Posted December 21, 2010:

• Rodents Were Diverse and Abundant in Prehistoric Africa When Our Human Ancestors Evolved

Posted December 19, 2010:

• Genetic Basis of Brain Diseases: Set of Proteins Account for Over 130 Brain Diseases

Posted December 16, 2010:

• Colossal Fossil: Museum's New Whale Skeleton Represents Decades of Research
• Age Doesn't Matter: New Genes Are as Essential as Ancient Ones
• Using Digitized Books as 'Cultural Genome,' Researchers Unveil Quantitative Approach to Humanities

Posted December 14, 2010:

• Sovereign's Head Identified After More Than Four Centuries

Posted December 8, 2010:

• Lost Civilization Under Persian Gulf?

Posted December 6, 2010:

• Warring Greeks Found Peace in Ancient Egypt: Researcher Uncovers Origins of Greek Trade City in Egypt's Nile Delta Region

Posted December 1, 2010:

• Primates Are More Resilient Than Other Animals to Environmental Ups and Downs

Posted November 30, 2010:

• Water Resources Played Important Role in Patterns of Human Settlement

Posted November 28, 2010:

• Crown Suggests Queen Arsinoë II Ruled Ancient Egypt as Female Pharaoh

Posted November 27, 2010:

• Dogs Have Bigger Brains Than Cats Because They Are More Sociable, Research Finds

Posted November 26, 2010:

• Sewage Water Bacteria: 'Missing Link' in Early Evolution of Life on Earth?

Posted November 25, 2010:

• Oldest Salt Mine Known to Date Located in Azerbaijan

Posted November 18, 2010:

• Paleovirology Expanded: Non-Retroviral Virus Fragments Found in Animal Genomes
• Link Between Ancient Lizard Fossil in Africa and Today's Komodo Dragon in Indonesia

Posted November 15, 2010:

• Synchrotron Reveals Human Children Outpaced Neanderthals by Slowing Down
• Modern Humans Mature More Slowly Than Neanderthals Did, Analysis of Teeth Suggests

Posted November 10, 2010:

• Multiple Fathers Prevalent in Amazonian Cultures, Study Finds

Posted November 9, 2010:

• DNA Reveals Origins of First European Farmers
• Skeletons from the 18th Century Reveal Typhus Epidemic from Spain

Posted November 8, 2010:

• Brains of Neanderthals and Modern Humans Developed Differently

Posted November 6, 2010:

• World's Oldest Ground-Edge Implement Discovered in Northern Australia

Posted November 5, 2010:

• New Statistical Model Moves Human Evolution Back Three Million Years

Posted November 3, 2010:

• Stone Age Humans Needed More Brain Power to Make Big Leap in Tool Design
• Do Holes Make Moles? Surprising First Ancestor of Bizarre Marsupial Moles
• Neanderthals Were More Promiscuous Than Modern Humans, Fossil Finger Bones Suggest

Posted October 29, 2010:

• Papyrus Research Provides Insights Into 'Modern Concerns' of Ancient World

Posted October 28, 2010:

• Paradise Lost -- And Found: Researchers Unearth Ancient Water Secrets at Royal Garden Dig

Posted October 27, 2010:

• Archaeological Sites Threatened by Rising Seas: Scientists Issue Call to Action

Posted October 26, 2010:

• Did Neanderthals Make Jewellery After All?

Posted October 25, 2010:

• Modern Humans Emerged Far Earlier Than Previously Thought, Fossils from China Suggest

Posted October 20, 2010:

• Energy Revolution Key to Complex Life: Depends on Mitochondria, Cells' Tiny Power Stations

Posted October 11, 2010:

• New Understanding of Bizarre Extinct Mammal: Shares Common Ancestor With Rodents, Primates

Posted October 8, 2010:

• Yersinia Pestis Bacteria Confirmed as Cause of Middle Ages 'Black Death' Plague Epidemic

Posted October 6, 2010:

• Volcanoes Wiped out Neanderthals, New Study Suggests
• New Fossil Suggests Dinosaurs Not So Fierce After All

Posted October 5, 2010:

• Novelty and Complexity Are Result of Small Evolutionary Changes
• New Language Identified in Remote Corner of India; One of Thousands of Endangered Tongues Around World
• Neanderthals Had Feelings Too, Say Researchers

Posted September 29, 2010:

• First Genetic Evidence for Loss of Teeth in the Common Ancestor of Baleen Whales
• No Evidence for Clovis Comet Catastrophe, Archaeologists Say

Posted September 28, 2010:

• 19-Million-Year-Old Genomic Fossils of Hepatitis B-Like Viruses in Songbirds
• 'Hobbit' Was an Iodine-Deficient Human, Not Another Species, New Study Suggests

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