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Thunderstone Mystery: What's a Stone Age Axe Doing in an Iron Age Tomb?
June 14, 2010 — What's a Stone Age axe doing in an Iron Age tomb? Archaeologists are now researching older objects in younger graves and they have found a ... > full story -
Understanding Genetic Mixing Through Migration: A Tool for Clinicians as Well as Geneaologists
June 11, 2010 — Understanding the genetic ancestry of mixed populations, such as those found in North America, can not only help to detect their origins but also to understand the genetic basis of complex diseases, ... > full story -
Tracking the True Tale of Turkeys
June 10, 2010 — The turkey dinner is a staple part of Christmas Day, but new research reveals that the history of the much loved poultry is in fact rather varied and ... > full story -
World's Oldest Leather Shoe Found in Armenia
June 9, 2010 — A perfectly preserved shoe -- 1,000 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and 400 years older than Stonehenge in the UK -- has been discovered in a cave in Armenia by an international ... > full story -
A Cooler Pacific May Have Severely Affected Medieval Europe, North America
June 9, 2010 — A new study has found a connection between La Nina-like sea surface temperatures in the central Pacific and droughts in western Europe and in what later became the southwestern United States and ... > full story -
Millenium Atoll: A Pristine Ecosystem
June 7, 2010 — A series of surveys were carried out to characterize the physical and biological parameters of the Millennium Atoll lagoon during a recent research ... > full story -
Survey Highlights Major Canada-US Differences in People in Middle Age
June 2, 2010 — Middle-aged Canadians are much less worried about the future than their American counterparts, some of whom are close to panic, says an Alberta researcher who has just finished a survey in both ... > full story -
Neanderthals Walked Into Frozen Britain 40,000 Years Earlier Than First Thought, Evidence Shows
June 1, 2010 — Archaeologists have found evidence that Neanderthals were living in Britain at the start of the last ice age, 40,000 years earlier than previously ... > full story -
A Stone Says More Than a Thousand Runes
May 27, 2010 — It was not necessary to be literate to be able to access rune carvings in the 11th century. At the same time, those who could read were able to glean much more information from a rune stone than ... > full story -
Genetic Data Added to Archaeology and Linguistics to Get Picture of African Population History
May 26, 2010 — Genetic researchers have combined data from existing archaeological and linguistic studies of Africa with human genetic data to shed light on the demographic history of the continent from which all ... > full story
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