Early Cultures News

Posted April 20, 2011:

• Evolution of Human 'Super-Brain' Tied to Development of Bipedalism, Tool-Making

Posted April 19, 2011:

• Right-Handedness Prevailed 500,000 Years Ago

Posted April 14, 2011:

• First 3-D Topographic Map of Early Maya City 'Head of Stone' Delineates Ancient Buildings

Posted April 8, 2011:

• Scientists Make Bamboo Tools to Test Theory Explaining East Asia's Stone Age Tool Scarcity

Posted April 7, 2011:

• iPad Helps Archaeologists

Posted March 24, 2011:

• Artifacts in Texas Predate Clovis Culture by 2,500 Years, New Study Shows

Posted March 23, 2011:

• Basketry from Peru's Huaca Prieta

Posted March 14, 2011:

• Neanderthals Were Nifty at Controlling Fire

Posted March 12, 2011:

• Atlantis Found? Film Highlights Professor’s Efforts to Locate Fabled Lost City

Posted March 10, 2011:

• Anthropologists Link Human Uniqueness to Hunter-Gatherer Group Structure

Posted March 7, 2011:

• Stone Tools Influenced Hand Evolution in Human Ancestors, Anthropologists Say

Posted February 24, 2011:

• Discovery of Oldest Northern North American Human Remains Provides New Insights Into Ice-Age Culture

Posted February 22, 2011:

• Origins of Farming in Europe Result of Human Migration and Cultural Change, Study Suggests

Posted February 17, 2011:

• First Skyscraper Was a Monument to Intimidation: How Jericho's 11,000-Year-Old 'Cosmic' Tower Came Into Being

Posted February 14, 2011:

• Earliest Humans Not So Different from Us, Research Suggests
• Ancient Mesoamerican Sculpture Uncovered in Southern Mexico

Posted February 11, 2011:

• Quest for Extinct Giant Rats Leads Scientists to Ancient Face Carvings

Posted February 10, 2011:

• New View of Human Evolution? 3.2 Million-Year-Old Fossil Foot Bone Supports Humanlike Bipedalism in Lucy's Species

Posted February 9, 2011:

• Ancient Teeth Raise New Questions About Origins of Modern Humans

Posted February 3, 2011:

• Genetic Study Uncovers New Path to Polynesia

Posted February 2, 2011:

• Anthropologists Discover Earliest Cemetery in Middle East

Posted January 27, 2011:

• Modern Humans Reached Arabia Earlier Than Thought, New Artifacts Suggest

Posted January 26, 2011:

• Genetic Archaeology Finds Parts of Human Genome More Closely Related to Orangutans Than Chimps

Posted January 6, 2011:

• Lice DNA Study Shows Humans First Wore Clothes 170,000 Years Ago

Posted January 3, 2011:

• A Toast to History: 500 Years of Wine-Drinking Cups Mark Social Shifts in Ancient Greece

Posted December 30, 2010:

• Was Israel the Birthplace of Modern Humans?
• Neandertals’ Extinction Not Caused by Deficient Diets, Tooth Analysis Shows

Posted December 22, 2010:

• Fossil Finger Bone Yields Genome of a Previously Unknown Human Relative

Posted December 21, 2010:

• Rodents Were Diverse and Abundant in Prehistoric Africa When Our Human Ancestors Evolved

Posted December 8, 2010:

• Lost Civilization Under Persian Gulf?

Posted December 6, 2010:

• Warring Greeks Found Peace in Ancient Egypt: Researcher Uncovers Origins of Greek Trade City in Egypt's Nile Delta Region

Posted December 3, 2010:

• Farmers Slowed Down by Hunter-Gatherers: Our Ancestors' Fight for Space

Posted November 30, 2010:

• Discovering the Secrets of Stonehenge

Posted November 25, 2010:

• Oldest Salt Mine Known to Date Located in Azerbaijan

Posted November 15, 2010:

• Modern Humans Mature More Slowly Than Neanderthals Did, Analysis of Teeth Suggests

Posted November 10, 2010:

• Multiple Fathers Prevalent in Amazonian Cultures, Study Finds

Posted November 9, 2010:

• DNA Reveals Origins of First European Farmers

Posted November 8, 2010:

• Brains of Neanderthals and Modern Humans Developed Differently

Posted November 6, 2010:

• World's Oldest Ground-Edge Implement Discovered in Northern Australia

Posted November 3, 2010:

• Stone Age Humans Needed More Brain Power to Make Big Leap in Tool Design
• Neanderthals Were More Promiscuous Than Modern Humans, Fossil Finger Bones Suggest

Posted October 28, 2010:

• Origin of Skillful Stone-Tool-Sharpening Method Pushed Back More Than 50,000 Years
• Paradise Lost -- And Found: Researchers Unearth Ancient Water Secrets at Royal Garden Dig

Posted October 26, 2010:

• Did Neanderthals Make Jewellery After All?

Posted October 18, 2010:

• Pre-Columbian Societies in Amazon May Have Been Much Larger and More Advanced Than Thought
• New Interpretations of the Stone Age Landscape in Sweden's Falbygden

Posted October 6, 2010:

• Volcanoes Wiped out Neanderthals, New Study Suggests

Posted October 5, 2010:

• Neanderthals Had Feelings Too, Say Researchers

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