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Tool-making Human Ancestors Inhabited Grassland Environments Two Million Years Ago
Researchers report the
oldest archaeological
evidence of early human
activities in a grassland
environment, dating to two
... > full story
World's Oldest Submerged Town Dates Back 5,000 Years
Archaeologists surveying the
world's oldest submerged
town have found ceramics
dating back to the Final
Neolithic. Their discovery
suggests that Pavlopetri,
... > full story
200,000-year-old Cut Of Meat: Archaeologists Shed Light On Life, Diet And Society Before The Delicatessen
New findings from the Qesem
Cave archaeological dig in
Israel indicate that during
the Lower Paleolithic Period
people prepared and shared m ... > full story
Scandinavians Are Descended From Stone Age Immigrants, Ancient DNA Reveals
Today's Scandinavians are
not descended from the
people who came to
Scandinavia at the
conclusion of the last ice
... > full story
- Tool-making Human Ancestors Inhabited Grassland Environments Two Million Years Ago
- World's Oldest Submerged Town Dates Back 5,000 Years
- 200,000-year-old Cut Of Meat: Archaeologists Shed Light On Life, Diet And Society Before The Delicatessen
- Scandinavians Are Descended From Stone Age Immigrants, Ancient DNA Reveals
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New Evidence Of Culture In Wild Chimpanzees
October 22, 2009 — A new study of chimpanzees living in the wild adds to evidence that our closest primate relatives have cultural differences, too. The study shows that neighboring chimpanzee populations in Uganda use ... > full story -
Giant Stone-age Axes Found In African Lake Basin
September 14, 2009 — A giant African lake basin is providing information about possible migration routes and hunting practices of early humans in the Middle and Late Stone Age periods, between 150,000 and 10,000 years ... > full story -
Archaeologists Discover Oldest-known Fiber Materials Used By Early Humans
September 11, 2009 — Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fiber materials that could have been used by humans for making clothing, shoes, and other items for domestic use. The fibers are flax, and are over 34,000 ... > full story -
Europe's First Farmers Were Immigrants: Replaced Their Stone Age Hunter-gatherer Forerunners
September 4, 2009 — Analysis of ancient DNA suggests that Europe's first farmers were not the descendants of the people who settled the area after the retreat of the ice sheets. Instead, the early farmers probably ... > full story -
Cradle And Birthday Of The Dog Identified: East Asia 16,000 years ago
September 2, 2009 — Previous studies have indicated that East Asia is where the wolf was tamed and became the dog. It was not possible to be more precise than that. But now researchers in Sweden have managed to zero in ... > full story -
No Such Thing As Ethnic Groups, Genetically Speaking, Researchers Say
September 1, 2009 — Central Asian ethnic groups are more defined by societal rules than ancestry. Researchers found that overall there are more genetic differences within ethnic groups than between them, indicating that ... > full story -
Tiny Ancient Shells -- 80,000 Years Old -- Point To Earliest Fashion Trend
August 27, 2009 — Shell beads unearthed from four sites in Morocco confirm early humans were consistently wearing and even trading symbolic jewelery as early as 80,000 years ago. These beads add to similar finds ... > full story -
Chinese Culture At The Crossroads: Prehistoric Archaeological Findings Highlighted In New Research
August 24, 2009 — Recent archaeological discoveries from far-flung corners of China are forcing scientists to reconsider the origins of ancient Chinese civilization -- and a new crop of young archaeologists are ... > full story -
Stone Tools, Rare Animal Bones: Clues To Caribbean's Earliest Inhabitants Discovered
August 19, 2009 — A prehistoric water-filled cave in the Dominican Republic has become a "treasure trove" with the announcement by archaeologists of the discovery of stone tools, a primate skull, and the claws, ... > full story -
Early Human Hunters Had Fewer Meat-sharing Rituals
August 18, 2009 — An anthropologist has discovered that humans living at a Paleolithic cave site in central Israel between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago were as successful at big-game hunting as were later stone-age ... > full story
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