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Destruction In Mesopotamia: Ancient Mysteries Fall Prey To Looters In Iraq, Science Feature Reveals
July 6, 2001 — In the northern Iraqi town of Khorsabad four years ago, looters sawed the massive stone head from a statue, sliced it to bits, then tried to spirit the remains to cash-heavy Western collectors. ... > full story -
Evidence Of Ancient El Ninos And Cultural Development
June 19, 2001 — In the July issue of the journal Geology, a team of researchers has suggested that the climate phenomenon known as El Nino has been a contributing factor in the rise and fall of ancient civilizations ... > full story -
Texas A&M Field School Discoveries May Rewrite History Of Early North American Man
February 2, 2001 — New discoveries in a valley on the eastern edge of the Texas Hill Country will prompt rewriting the history of early North American man, predict Texas A&M University archaeologists who are ... > full story -
Archaeologist Finds Arizona's Ancient Hohokam Was Complex, Advanced Culture That May Have Reached The West Coast
February 2, 2001 — The Hohokam, who inhabited the dry Sonoran desert of southern Arizona, were more or less ignored, even though they had by far the most advanced canal irrigation system in the New World. Now, the ... > full story -
New Fossil Study Rejects "Eve Theory" And Supports Diverse Ancestry Of Modern Humans
January 11, 2001 — The ancestors of modern humans came from many different regions of the world, not just a single area, according to a University of Michigan study published in the current (Jan. 12) issue of Science. ... > full story -
Diet Diverged In Earliest Human Ancestors, Researchers Find
December 21, 2000 — Dietary diversity distinguished the diets of our earliest human ancestors, starting a trend that eventually led to the ability of human beings to colonize different types of terrain all over the ... > full story -
Researchers Push Back The Clock On Native Farming History
December 13, 2000 — Archeology and physical geography researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered the earliest evidence yet of agricultural activity in southwestern Ontario dating back 1,400 ... > full story -
Peru's Nasca Lines Point To Water Sources, Suggest UMass Researchers
December 1, 2000 — The ancient "Nasca lines" created on the desert floor by native peoples in Peru thousands of years ago may not just be works of art, according to a team of scientists from the University of ... > full story -
Temple University And Smithsonian Researchers Find Earliest Direct Evidence Of Crop Cultivation In The Americas
October 22, 2000 — Researchers from Temple University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama have found some of the earliest direct evidence of root crop cultivation in the ... > full story -
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Untouched Tomb In Syria
October 2, 2000 — An ancient, untouched tomb of what may be royalty from one of the world's first city-dwelling civilizations has been discovered in Syria, containing human and animal remains, gold and silver ... > full story -
Study Provides Direct Evidence Of Cannibalism In The Southwest
September 13, 2000 — The first evidence of human tissue in prehistoric human waste dating back about 850 years shows that people of southwestern Colorado engaged in cannibalism during a long drought, according to a new ... > full story -
Meaty Discovery: Neandertal Bone Chemistry Provides Food For Thought
June 13, 2000 — New scientific testing resolves the long-standing debate over whether the Neandertals were merely scavengers who snatched the leftovers of nature's predators or were themselves high-level ... > full story
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