Early Cultures News

Posted September 22, 2010:

• Neanderthals More Advanced Than Previously Thought: They Innovated, Adapted Like Modern Humans, Research Shows

Posted September 6, 2010:

• Acting Selfish? Blame Your Mother!

Posted August 30, 2010:

• First Clear Evidence of Organized Feasting by Early Humans

Posted August 24, 2010:

• Historic Buildings May Be Better Protected from Climate Change With New Forecast Method

Posted August 20, 2010:

• New Ways to Chart Our Maritime Past

Posted August 18, 2010:

• Can Anthropology Solve an Economic Crisis?

Posted August 11, 2010:

• Oldest Evidence of Stone Tool Use and Meat-Eating Among Human Ancestors Discovered: Lucy's Species Butchered Meat

Posted August 10, 2010:

• Stone Age Remains Are Britain's Earliest House

Posted July 28, 2010:

• Ancient DNA Identifies Donkey Ancestors, People Who Domesticated Them

Posted July 20, 2010:

• Animal Connection: New Hypothesis for Human Evolution and Human Nature

Posted July 17, 2010:

• Mayan King's Tomb Discovered in Guatemala

Posted July 6, 2010:

• 3,200-Year-Old Bronze Tablet Identified as Battle Chariot Linchpin

Posted July 1, 2010:

• Human-Made Global Warming Started With Ancient Hunters

Posted June 30, 2010:

• Hunting Weapon 10,000 Years Old Found in Melting Ice Patch

Posted June 23, 2010:

• Separation Between Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens Might Have Occurred 500,000 Years Earlier, DNA from Teeth Suggests

Posted June 16, 2010:

• Thunderstone Mystery: What's a Stone Age Axe Doing in an Iron Age Tomb?

Posted May 28, 2010:

• A Stone Says More Than a Thousand Runes

Posted May 26, 2010:

• Genetic Data Added to Archaeology and Linguistics to Get Picture of African Population History

Posted May 17, 2010:

• Advanced Geographical Models Bring New Perspective to Study of Archaeology

Posted May 14, 2010:

• The Joke Is on Us: A New Interpretation of Bared Teeth in Archaeological Artifacts

Posted May 12, 2010:

• Duties to Human Remains in Universities and Museums

Posted May 6, 2010:

• Neanderthal Genome Yields Insights Into Human Evolution and Evidence of Interbreeding With Modern Humans
• Neandertals 'Hardly Differed at All' from Modern Humans
• Complete Neanderthal Genome Sequenced: DNA Signatures Found in Present-Day Europeans and Asians, but Not in Africans
• Neandertal Genome Sequence Published in Science

Posted May 5, 2010:

• Aboriginal Hunting and Burning Increase Australia's Desert Biodiversity, Researchers Find

Posted April 26, 2010:

• Ancient Artifacts Revealed as Northern Ice Patches Melt

Posted April 20, 2010:

• Chinese Pigs 'Direct Descendants' of First Domesticated Breeds

Posted April 10, 2010:

• Researchers Shed Light on Ancient Assyrian Tablets

Posted April 9, 2010:

• Cultural Identity of Indigenous Society of Patagonia Restored

Posted April 6, 2010:

• Archaeologists Uncover Land Before Wheel; Site Untouched for 6,000 Years

Posted April 1, 2010:

• Stone Age Scandinavians Unable to Digest Milk, Study Shows

Posted March 25, 2010:

• New Human Species Discovered: Mitochondrial Genome of Previously Unknown Hominins from Siberia Decoded

Posted March 13, 2010:

• Prehistoric Response to Global Warming Informs Human Planning Today

Posted March 12, 2010:

• Fossil Bird Eggshell Provides Source of Ancient DNA
• Khirbet Qeiyafa Identified as Biblical 'Neta'im'

Posted March 11, 2010:

• If Bonobo Kanzi Can Point as Humans Do, What Other Similarities Can Rearing Reveal?

Posted March 8, 2010:

• Archaeologists Amend Written History of China's First Emperor

Posted March 3, 2010:

• 'Pompeii-Like' Excavations Tell Us More About Toba Super-Eruption

Posted March 2, 2010:

• Giant Stone Head of Ancient Egypt's King Amenhotep III Discovered

Posted February 24, 2010:

• Liberals and Atheists Smarter? Intelligent People Have Values Novel in Human Evolutionary History, Study Finds
• DNA Evidence Tells 'Global Story' of Human History

Posted February 22, 2010:

• Archaeologist Discovers Jerusalem City Wall from Tenth Century B.C.E.

Posted February 10, 2010:

• Waking the Dead: Scientists Reconstruct Nuclear Genome of Extinct Human Being

Posted February 2, 2010:

• DNA Testing on 2,000-Year-Old Bones in Italy Reveal East Asian Ancestry

Posted January 27, 2010:

• Last Neanderthals in Europe Died out 37,000 Years Ago

Posted January 21, 2010:

• Most Modern European Males Descend from Farmers Who Migrated from the Near East

Posted January 13, 2010:

• Shipworm Threatens Archaeological Treasures

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