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Anthropologist Discovers Ancient Tomb In Honduras
May 31, 2007 — Anthropologists have found a previously unknown tomb in Copán, Honduras, dating back to the 7th century A.D. that contained the skeleton of an elite member of ancient Maya society in the city. ... > full story -
Recently Excavated Headless Skeleton Expands Understanding Of Ancient Andean Rituals
May 29, 2007 — Images of disembodied heads are widespread in the art of Nasca, a culture based in Peru from AD 1 to AD 750. But despite this evidence and large numbers of trophy heads in the region's archaeological ... > full story -
Ancient Wooden Anchor Discovered
May 16, 2007 — The world's oldest wooden anchor was discovered during excavations in the Turkish port city of Urla, the ancient site of Liman Tepe, the Greek 1st Millennium BCE colony of Klazomenai. The anchor, ... > full story -
New Research Confirms 'Out Of Africa' Theory Of Human Evolution
May 9, 2007 — New research confirms the "Out Of Africa" hypothesis that all modern humans stem from a single group of Homo sapiens who emigrated from Africa 2,000 generations ago and spread throughout Eurasia over ... > full story -
Studying Early China, To Learn Why Civilizations Rise And Fall
April 24, 2007 — In the Yellow River valley of northern China, Zhichun Jing digs through the remains of long-ago cities to find insights for modern survival. Over the past 10 years, Jing has been excavating the ... > full story -
The Emerging Fate Of The Neandertals
April 23, 2007 — For nearly a century, anthropologists have been debating the relationship of Neandertals to modern humans. Central to the debate is whether Neandertals contributed directly or indirectly to the ... > full story -
New Evidence Of 'Human' Culture Among Primates
March 23, 2007 — Fresh evidence that suggests monkeys can learn skills from each other, in the same manner as humans. Stone-banging by South American monkeys could be a socially-learned ... > full story -
How Long Is A Child A Child? Human Developmental Patterns Emerged More Than 160,000 Years Ago
March 13, 2007 — Research on a Homo sapiens juvenile fossil shows that modern human developmental patterns emerged more than 160,000 years ago. Researchers have recently found evidence that some of the earliest ... > full story -
Pig Study Forces Rethink Of Pacific Colonisation
March 12, 2007 — A survey of wild and domestic pigs, published in PNAS, has caused archaeologists to reconsider both the origins of the first Pacific colonists and the migration routes humans travelled to reach the ... > full story -
Ancient Retrovirus Is Resurrected
February 27, 2007 — Retroviruses have been around longer than humanity itself. In fact, the best-known family member, HIV, is a relative youngster, with its first known human infections occurring sometime in the ... > full story
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