Archaeology News

Posted April 19, 2010:

• Bureaucracy Linked to a Nation's Growth
• Chinese Pigs 'Direct Descendants' of First Domesticated Breeds

Posted April 15, 2010:

• Stalagmite Reveals Carbon Footprint of Early Native Americans

Posted April 8, 2010:

• Researchers Shed Light on Ancient Assyrian Tablets
• New Hominid Shares Traits With Homo Species: Fossil Find Sheds Light on the Transition to Homo Genus from Earlier Hominids

Posted April 5, 2010:

• Scientists to Unearth Ice Age Secrets from Preserved Tree Rings

Posted March 29, 2010:

• An Archaeological Mystery in a Half-Ton Lead Coffin

Posted March 26, 2010:

• Religious Beliefs Seen as Basis of Origins of Palaeolithic Art

Posted March 25, 2010:

• New Human Species Discovered: Mitochondrial Genome of Previously Unknown Hominins from Siberia Decoded

Posted March 24, 2010:

• Summers Were Wetter in the Middle Ages Than They Are Today

Posted March 23, 2010:

• New Dinosaur from Utah's Red Rocks

Posted March 18, 2010:

• Giant Sequoias Yield Longest Fire History from Tree Rings

Posted March 17, 2010:

• In Search of Key Blue Ingredient in Ancient Egyptian Pottery

Posted March 11, 2010:

• Scientists Discover 600 Million-Year-Old Origins of Vision

Posted March 10, 2010:

• Students' Perceptions of Earth's Age Influence Acceptance of Human Evolution

Posted March 2, 2010:

• Giant Stone Head of Ancient Egypt's King Amenhotep III Discovered

Posted February 27, 2010:

• DNA Sequence of Extinct Ancient Cattle Uncovered

Posted February 22, 2010:

• DNA Evidence Tells 'Global Story' of Human History

Posted February 17, 2010:

• Study Debunks Millennia-Old Claims of Systematic Infant Sacrifice in Ancient Carthage

Posted February 11, 2010:

• Archaeological 'Time Machine' Greatly Improves Accuracy of Early Radiocarbon Dating

Posted February 10, 2010:

• Virtual Museum Guide
• Waking the Dead: Scientists Reconstruct Nuclear Genome of Extinct Human Being

Posted February 4, 2010:

• Ancient Human Teeth Show That Stress Early in Development Can Shorten Life Span

Posted February 1, 2010:

• DNA Testing on 2,000-Year-Old Bones in Italy Reveal East Asian Ancestry

Posted January 26, 2010:

• Lost Roman Law Code Discovered in London

Posted January 20, 2010:

• Cave Reveals Southwest's Abrupt Climate Swings During Ice Age
• Animals Populated Madagascar by Rafting There

Posted January 12, 2010:

• Missing 500-Years of Loggias, Porticos Described

Posted January 11, 2010:

• Raft or Bridge: How Did Iguanas Reach Tiny Pacific Islands?

Posted January 7, 2010:

• Fossil Footprints Give Land Vertebrates a Much Longer History

Posted December 17, 2009:

• Stone Age Pantry: Archaeologist Unearths Earliest Evidence of Modern Humans Using Wild Grains and Tubers for Food
• Ancient Pygmy Sea Cow Discovered

Posted December 16, 2009:

• DNA of Jesus-Era Shrouded Man in Jerusalem Reveals Earliest Case of Leprosy

Posted December 15, 2009:

• Sixty Headless Skeletons -- 3,000 Years Old -- Discovered in Pacific Ocean Archipelago Vanuatu
• Climate Change Does Not Always Lead to Conflict

Posted December 9, 2009:

• Tropical Birds Waited for Land Crossing Between North and South America, Study Finds

Posted November 19, 2009:

• Cousins of Prehistoric Supercrocodile Inhabit Lost World of Sahara
• 'Hobbits' Are a New Human Species, According to Statistical Analysis of Fossils

Posted November 17, 2009:

• Heart Disease Found in Egyptian Mummies

Posted November 16, 2009:

• Study Pits Man Versus Machine in Piecing Together 425-Million-Year-Old Jigsaw

Posted November 10, 2009:

• Cave Study Links Climate Change to California Droughts

Posted November 9, 2009:

• Remains Of Minoan-Style Painting Discovered During Excavations Of Canaanite Palace

Posted November 6, 2009:

• Archaeologists Uncover Prehistoric Landscape Beneath Oxford University, England

Posted November 5, 2009:

• Archaeologists Track Infamous Conquistador Through Southeast

Posted November 4, 2009:

• History In 3-D: Digitally Archived Works Of Art

Posted October 29, 2009:

• Largest Bat In Europe Inhabited Northeastern Spain More Than 10,000 Years Ago

Posted October 26, 2009:

• 'Dutch' Batavians More Roman Than Thought

Posted October 16, 2009:

• World's Oldest Submerged Town Dates Back 5,000 Years

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