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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 -
Practice Of Farming Reaches Back Farther Than Thought
February 20, 2007 — Microscopic residues of plants recovered from stone tools that people were using in Panama 3,000 to 7,800 years ago show that people were engaged in the practice of agriculture much earlier than ... > full story -
Birth Rate, Competition Are Major Players In Hominid Extinctions
February 18, 2007 — Modern human mothers are probably happy that they typically have one, maybe two babies at a time, but for early hominids, low birth numbers combined with competition often spelled extinction. "The ... > full story -
Chimp Stone Age: West African Chimpanzees Have Been Cracking Nuts With Stone Tools For Thousands Of Years
February 13, 2007 — Researchers have found evidence that chimpanzees from West Africa were cracking nuts with stone tools before the advent of agriculture, thousands of years ago. The result suggests chimpanzees ... > full story -
Researchers Unearth 4,300-Year-Old Chimpanzee Technology; 'Stone Hammers' Fuel Evolutionary Debate
February 12, 2007 — A University of Calgary archaeologist has discovered stone "hammers" in the Tai rainforest of Africa's Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) that date back 4,300 years. The primitive tools were used by ... > full story
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