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Too Many Antibiotics? Bacterial Ecology That Lives on Humans Has Changed in Last 100 Years
December 13, 2012 — A new study has demonstrated that ancient DNA can be used to understand ancient human microbiomes. The microbiomes from ancient people have broad reaching implications for understanding recent ... > full story -
Dead Guts Spill History of Extinct Microbes: Fecal Samples from Archeological Sites Reveal Evolution of Human Gut Microbes
December 12, 2012 — Extinct microbes in fecal samples from archaeological sites across the world resemble those found in present-day rural African communities more than they resemble the microbes found in the gut of ... > full story -
Australian Multicellular Fossils Point to Life on Land, Not at Sea, Geologist Proposes
December 12, 2012 — Ancient multicellular fossils long thought to be ancestors of early marine life are remnants of land-dwelling lichen or other microbial colonies, says a University of Oregon scientist who has been ... > full story -
Roman Settlement and Possible Prehistoric Site Uncovered in Northern Italy
December 11, 2012 — Using archaeological expertise and modern technology, archeologists recently discovered a Roman settlement and possible prehistoric site in northern ... > full story -
Ancient Drawings in Peruvian Desert: New Light on the Nazca Lines
December 10, 2012 — Archaeologists gain insight into ancient desert drawings – by walking them. Archaeologists have completed highly detailed research into the Nazca Lines – enigmatic drawings created ... > full story -
First Harbor of Ancient Rome Rediscovered
December 10, 2012 — Archaeologists had unearthed the great ancient monuments of Ostia, but the location of the harbor which supplied Rome with wheat remained to be discovered. Thanks to sedimentary cores, this "lost" ... > full story -
Mexican Immigrants to the U.S. Not as Healthy as Believed, Study Finds
December 3, 2012 — Immigrants who come to the United States from Mexico arrive with a significant amount of undiagnosed disease, particularly diabetes, tempering previous findings that immigrants are generally ... > full story -
Native Americans and Northern Europeans More Closely Related Than Previously Thought
November 30, 2012 — Using genetic analyses, scientists have discovered that Northern European populations descend from a mixture of two very different ancestral populations, and one of these populations is related to ... > full story -
Genome of the Black Death Reveals Evidence for an Antique Bubonic Plague Pandemic
November 29, 2012 — Researchers have compared medieval and modern plague pathogens. In a comparison of more than 300 contemporary strains of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, with ancient ... > full story -
Skeletons in Cave Reveal Mediterranean Secrets
November 28, 2012 — Skeletal remains in an island cave in Favignana, Italy, reveal that modern humans first settled in Sicily around the time of the last ice age and despite living on Mediterranean islands, ate little ... > full story
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