Archaeology News

Posted October 29, 2010:

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

Posted October 28, 2010:

• Origin of Skillful Stone-Tool-Sharpening Method Pushed Back More Than 50,000 Years
• Paradise Lost -- And Found: Researchers Unearth Ancient Water Secrets at Royal Garden Dig

Posted October 18, 2010:

• New Interpretations of the Stone Age Landscape in Sweden's Falbygden

Posted October 5, 2010:

• Neanderthals Had Feelings Too, Say Researchers

Posted September 28, 2010:

• 'Hobbit' Was an Iodine-Deficient Human, Not Another Species, New Study Suggests

Posted September 20, 2010:

• Apollo Discovery Tells a New Story

Posted September 18, 2010:

• Fossil of Giant Bony-Toothed Bird from Chile Sets Wingspan Record

Posted September 16, 2010:

• 'Goddess of Fortune' Found Near Shores of Sea of Galilee

Posted September 14, 2010:

• Adapting to Darkness: How Behavioral and Genetic Changes Helped Cavefish Survive Extreme Environment

Posted September 9, 2010:

• Oldest Roman Baths in Asia Minor Discovered in Sagalassos

Posted September 8, 2010:

• Experts Question Claim That Alexander the Great's Half-Brother Is Buried at Vergina

Posted September 2, 2010:

• Ancient Brew Masters Tapped Antibiotic Secrets

Posted August 24, 2010:

• True Causes for Extinction of Cave Bear Revealed: More Human Expansion Than Climate Change

Posted August 23, 2010:

• Cactus Genes Connect Modern Mexico to Its Prehistoric Past

Posted August 19, 2010:

• New Ways to Chart Our Maritime Past

Posted August 17, 2010:

• Dwindling Green Pastures, Not Hunting, May Have Killed Off the Mammoth
• Secrets of a Vanished English Landscape: Geologists Examine 5,000-Year-Old 'Fossilized' Landscape

Posted August 10, 2010:

• Stone Age Remains Are Britain's Earliest House

Posted August 5, 2010:

• Reading Zip Codes of 3,500-Year-Old Letters: Non-Destructive X-Ray Scanning of Archaeological Finds

Posted July 26, 2010:

• Archaeologists Discover Biggest Rat That Ever Lived: Weight of About 6 Kilograms (Over 13 Lb)

Posted July 22, 2010:

• Extreme Archaeology: Divers Plumb the Mysteries of Sacred Maya Pools

Posted July 15, 2010:

• Remarkable Fossil Cave Shows How Ancient Marsupials Grew

Posted July 13, 2010:

• Ancient Birds from North America Colonized the South, Thanks to Panama Land Bridge

Posted July 12, 2010:

• Earliest Archaeological Evidence of Pet Tortoises Discovered
• Oldest Written Document Ever Found in Jerusalem Discovered

Posted July 7, 2010:

• Dig Discovers Ancient Britons Were Earliest North Europeans
• Archeologists Explore Rural Galilee and Find Ancient Synagogue

Posted July 6, 2010:

• Hips Don't Lie: Researchers Find More Accurate Technique to Determine Sex of Skeletal Remains

Posted July 1, 2010:

• 3,200-Year-Old Bronze Tablet Identified as Battle Chariot Linchpin

Posted June 29, 2010:

• Hunting Weapon 10,000 Years Old Found in Melting Ice Patch

Posted June 28, 2010:

• North America's First Peoples More Genetically Diverse Than Thought, Mitochondrial Genome Analysis Reveals

Posted June 21, 2010:

• 3.6 Million-Year-Old Relative of 'Lucy' Discovered: Early Hominid Skeleton Confirms Human-Like Walking Is Ancient

Posted June 17, 2010:

• Constraining the Reign of Ancient Egypt: Radiocarbon Dating Helps to Nail Down the Chronology of Kings, Researchers Say

Posted June 14, 2010:

• Thunderstone Mystery: What's a Stone Age Axe Doing in an Iron Age Tomb?

Posted June 11, 2010:

• Understanding Genetic Mixing Through Migration: A Tool for Clinicians as Well as Geneaologists

Posted June 9, 2010:

• World's Oldest Leather Shoe Found in Armenia
• A Cooler Pacific May Have Severely Affected Medieval Europe, North America

Posted June 1, 2010:

• Neanderthals Walked Into Frozen Britain 40,000 Years Earlier Than First Thought, Evidence Shows

Posted May 27, 2010:

• A Stone Says More Than a Thousand Runes

Posted May 26, 2010:

• Genetic Data Added to Archaeology and Linguistics to Get Picture of African Population History

Posted May 17, 2010:

• Extinct Giant Shark Nursery Discovered in Panama

Posted May 14, 2010:

• Advanced Geographical Models Bring New Perspective to Study of Archaeology

Posted May 13, 2010:

• Robin Hood's Prison: Uncovering Nottingham's Hidden Medieval Sandstone Caves

Posted May 11, 2010:

• Laser Beams Penetrating Thick Canopy Detect Thousands of New Structures, Show Maya Adept at 'Building Green'
• Odd Dental Features Reveal Undocumented Primate: Previously Unknown Species Complicates Understanding of African Evolution

Posted May 3, 2010:

• Genetic Makeup of Hispanic/Latino Americans Influenced by Native American, European and African-American Ancestries

Posted April 27, 2010:

• Uncovering the Truth About Viking Men

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