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Clovis-Age Overkill Didn't Take Out California's Flightless Sea Duck
March 17, 2008 — Clovis-age natives, often noted for overhunting during their brief dominance in a primitive North America, deserve clemency in the case of California's flightless sea duck. New evidence says it took ... > full story -
Gold Scroll Discovered: Earliest Evidence Of Jewish Inhabitants In Austria
March 16, 2008 — Archaeologists have found an amulet inscribed with a Jewish prayer in a Roman child's grave dating back to the 3rd century CE at a burial ground in the Austrian town of Halbturn. The ... > full story -
Evidence Of Ice Age Hunters: 28 Palaeolithic Handaxes Found In North Sea
March 11, 2008 — An amazing haul of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years-old, have been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great Yarmouth. ... > full story -
Innovative Archaeological Survey Reveals Unknown Aspects Of China's Past
March 3, 2008 — Imagine future archaeologists trying to understand Illinois, California or New York based on a few excavations in each of those states. They might excavate small areas in city centers, since those ... > full story -
Royals Weren't Only Builders Of Maya Temples, Archaeologist Finds
February 25, 2008 — An intrepid archaeologist is well on her way to dislodging the prevailing assumptions of scholars about the people who built and used Maya ... > full story -
Human Culture Subject To Natural Selection, Study Shows
February 16, 2008 — The process of natural selection can act on human culture as well as on genes, a new study finds. Scientists have shown for the first time that cultural traits affecting survival and reproduction ... > full story -
Neanderthals Moved From Place To Place, Tooth Analysis Shows
February 15, 2008 — A 40,000-year-old tooth has provided scientists with the first direct evidence that Neanderthals moved from place to place during their lifetimes. The tooth, a third molar, was formed when the ... > full story -
Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement Unearthed
February 12, 2008 — Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence ever discovered of an ancient Egyptian agricultural settlement, including farmed grains, remains of domesticated animals, pits for cooking and even ... > full story -
Languages Evolve In Rapid Bursts, Rather Than Following A Steady Pattern
February 6, 2008 — Languages change and evolve in rapid bursts rather than in a steady pattern. New research investigates thousands of years of language evolution, and looks at the way in which languages split and ... > full story -
Globetrotting Black Rat Genes Reveal Spread Of Humans And Diseases
February 1, 2008 — DNA of the common black rat has shed light on the ancient spread of rats, people and diseases around the globe. Studying the mitochondrial DNA of 165 black rat specimens from 32 countries around the ... > full story
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