Early Cultures News

Posted November 17, 2009:

• Ancient Weapons Dug Up by Archaeologists in England

Posted November 10, 2009:

• Words, Gestures Are Translated By Same Brain Regions

Posted November 9, 2009:

• Remains Of Minoan-Style Painting Discovered During Excavations Of Canaanite Palace

Posted October 22, 2009:

• New Evidence Of Culture In Wild Chimpanzees

Posted October 21, 2009:

• Tool-Making Human Ancestors Inhabited Grassland Environments Two Million Years Ago

Posted October 16, 2009:

• World's Oldest Submerged Town Dates Back 5,000 Years

Posted October 15, 2009:

• 200,000-Year-Old Cut Of Meat: Archaeologists Shed Light On Life, Diet And Society Before The Delicatessen

Posted September 25, 2009:

• Scandinavians Are Descended From Stone Age Immigrants, Ancient DNA Reveals

Posted September 14, 2009:

• Giant Stone-Age Axes Found In African Lake Basin

Posted September 11, 2009:

• Archaeologists Discover Oldest-Known Fiber Materials Used By Early Humans

Posted September 4, 2009:

• Europe's First Farmers Were Immigrants: Replaced Their Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer Forerunners

Posted September 2, 2009:

• Cradle And Birthday Of The Dog Identified: East Asia 16,000 Years Ago

Posted September 1, 2009:

• No Such Thing As Ethnic Groups, Genetically Speaking, Researchers Say

Posted August 27, 2009:

• Tiny Ancient Shells 80,000 Years Old Point To Earliest Fashion Trend

Posted August 24, 2009:

• Chinese Culture At The Crossroads: Prehistoric Archaeological Findings Highlighted In New Research

Posted August 19, 2009:

• Stone Tools, Rare Animal Bones: Clues To Caribbean's Earliest Inhabitants Discovered

Posted August 18, 2009:

• Early Human Hunters Had Fewer Meat-Sharing Rituals

Posted August 14, 2009:

• Early Modern Humans Used Fire To Engineer Tools From Stone; Complex Cognition Older Than 72,000 Years?

Posted August 12, 2009:

• When Did Humans Return After Last Ice Age?

Posted August 11, 2009:

• Archaeologists Find Cache Of Tablets In 2,700-Year Old Turkish Temple

Posted August 9, 2009:

• Primate Archaeology Sheds Light On Human Origins

Posted August 4, 2009:

• Human Population Expanded During Late Stone Age, Genetic Evidence Shows

Posted July 23, 2009:

• Ancient Maya Practiced Forest Conservation 3,000 Years Ago
• Australian Aborigines Initially Arrived Via South Asia

Posted July 22, 2009:

• Human Spear Likely Cause Of Death Of Neandertal
• Ancient Humans Left Evidence From The Party That Ended 4,000 Years Ago
• New Insights Into Iran's Past: Landlord Villages Of The Tehran Plain

Posted July 10, 2009:

• Obsidian 'Trail' Provides Clues To How Humans Settled, Interacted In Kuril Islands

Posted July 3, 2009:

• Computer Recognizes Archaeological Material And Fake Van Goghs

Posted June 25, 2009:

• Paleolithic Bone Flute Discovered: Earliest Musical Tradition Documented In Southwestern Germany

Posted June 23, 2009:

• Social Competition May Be Reason For Bigger Brain

Posted June 9, 2009:

• Archeological Evidence Of Human Activity Found Beneath Lake Huron

Posted June 8, 2009:

• Basket Weaving May Have Taught Humans To Count

Posted June 5, 2009:

• High Population Density Triggers Cultural Explosions

Posted May 29, 2009:

• Virtual Reconstruction Of A Neanderthal Woman’s Birth Canal Reveals Insights Into Evolution Of Human Child Birth
• Lessons From The Past: Research Examines How Past Communities Coped With Climate Change

Posted May 27, 2009:

• Oldest Evidence Of Leprosy Found In India

Posted May 14, 2009:

• Neandertals Sophisticated And Fearless Hunters, New Analysis Shows

Posted April 30, 2009:

• Ancient Egypt Brought To Life With Virtual Model Of Historic Temple Complex
• Indus Script Encodes Language, Reveals New Study Of Ancient Symbols

Posted April 22, 2009:

• Viking Legacy On English: What Language Tells Us About Immigration And Integration

Posted April 16, 2009:

• Archaeologists Discover Temple That Sheds Light On So-Called Dark Age

Posted April 15, 2009:

• Three Neanderthal Sub-Groups Confirmed

Posted April 11, 2009:

• Ancestors Of African Pygmies And Neighboring Farmers Separated Around 60,000 Years Ago

Posted April 6, 2009:

• Archaeological Discovery In Jordan Valley: Enormous 'Foot-Shaped' Enclosures

Posted March 16, 2009:

• New Technology For Dating Ancient Rock Paintings

Posted March 8, 2009:

• Archaeologists Find Earliest Known Domestic Horses: Harnessed and Milked

Posted February 26, 2009:

• Clovis-Era Tool Cache 13,000 Years Old Shows Evidence Of Camel, Horse Butchering

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