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Huge Ancient Language Dictionary Finished After 90 Years
June 7, 2011 — An ambitious project to identify, explain and provide citations for the words written in cuneiform on clay tablets and carved in stone by Babylonians, Assyrians and others in Mesopotamia between 2500 ... > full story -
Autism May Have Had Advantages in Humans' Hunter-Gatherer Past, Researcher Believes
June 3, 2011 — Though people with autism face many challenges because of their condition, they may have been capable hunter-gatherers in prehistoric times, according to a new ... > full story -
Climate Played Big Role in Vikings' Disappearance from Greenland
May 30, 2011 — Greenland's early Viking settlers were subjected to rapidly changing climate. Temperatures plunged several degrees in a span of decades, according to researchers. A reconstruction of 5,600 years of ... > full story -
Archaeologists Uncover Oldest Mine in the Americas
May 19, 2011 — Archaeologists have discovered a 12,000-year-old iron oxide mine in Chile that marks the oldest evidence of organized mining ever found in the Americas, according to a new ... > full story -
Last Neanderthals Near the Arctic Circle?
May 13, 2011 — Remains found near the Arctic Circle characteristic of Mousterian culture have recently been dated at over 28,500 years old, which is more than 8,000 years after Neanderthals are thought to have ... > full story -
Neanderthals Died out Earlier Than Previously Thought, New Evidence Suggests
May 10, 2011 — Direct dating of a fossil of a Neanderthal infant suggests that Neanderthals probably died out earlier than previously ... > full story -
Evolution of Human 'Super-Brain' Tied to Development of Bipedalism, Tool-Making
April 20, 2011 — Scientists seeking to understand the origin of the human mind may want to look to honeybees -- not ancestral apes -- for at least some of the answers, according to a University of Colorado Boulder ... > full story -
Right-Handedness Prevailed 500,000 Years Ago
April 19, 2011 — Markings on fossilized front teeth show that right-handedness goes back a half-million years in the human ... > full story -
First 3-D Topographic Map of Early Maya City 'Head of Stone' Delineates Ancient Buildings
April 14, 2011 — Archaeologists have made the first three-dimensional topographic map of the early Maya city "Head of Stone" in Guatemala's Central Lakes region, adding new perspective to the site and its ancient ... > full story -
Scientists Make Bamboo Tools to Test Theory Explaining East Asia's Stone Age Tool Scarcity
April 8, 2011 — The long-held theory that prehistoric people in East Asia crafted their tools from bamboo is much more complicated than originally conceived, according to a new study. Research until now didn't ... > full story
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