Early Cultures News

Posted September 10, 2007:

• Ancient 'Escape Tunnel' Discovered In Israel

Posted September 7, 2007:

• Widely Held Beliefs About Early Cherokee Settlement Patterns Likely Incorrect

Posted September 6, 2007:

• Ancient Human DNA Extracted From Yucca Leaves Spat Out

Posted September 4, 2007:

• Ancient Pig DNA Study Sheds New Light On Colonization Of Europe By Early Farmers

Posted August 31, 2007:

• New Evidence: Urbanization Did Not Originate With Centralized Political Power

Posted August 16, 2007:

• Handsome By Chance: Why Humans Look Different From Neanderthals

Posted August 15, 2007:

• Facial Attraction: Choice Of Sexual Partner Shaped The Human Face

Posted August 14, 2007:

• Stone Age Site Surfaces After 8000 Years

Posted August 10, 2007:

• Early Modern Human Skull Includes Surprising Neanderthal Feature

Posted August 2, 2007:

• Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago

Posted July 20, 2007:

• Why Humans Walk On Two Legs

Posted June 28, 2007:

• Original Human 'Stone Age' Diet Is Good For People With Diabetes, Study Finds

Posted June 20, 2007:

• Neanderthal Man Was An Innovator

Posted June 18, 2007:

• Discovery Of The Oldest Adornments In The World
• Ancient Etruscans Were Immigrants From Anatolia, Or What Is Now Turkey

Posted June 8, 2007:

• 'Cultured' Chimpanzees Pass On Novel Traditions

Posted June 1, 2007:

• Anthropologist Discovers Ancient Tomb In Honduras
• Lessons From The Orangutans: Upright Walking May Have Begun In The Trees

Posted May 30, 2007:

• Recently Excavated Headless Skeleton Expands Understanding Of Ancient Andean Rituals

Posted May 10, 2007:

• New Research Confirms 'Out Of Africa' Theory Of Human Evolution

Posted April 24, 2007:

• The Emerging Fate Of The Neandertals

Posted March 24, 2007:

• New Evidence Of 'Human' Culture Among Primates

Posted March 14, 2007:

• How Long Is A Child A Child? Human Developmental Patterns Emerged More Than 160,000 Years Ago

Posted March 13, 2007:

• Pig Study Forces Rethink Of Pacific Colonisation

Posted March 1, 2007:

• Ancient Retrovirus Is Resurrected

Posted February 28, 2007:

• Birth Rate, Competition Are Major Players In Hominid Extinctions

Posted February 20, 2007:

• Practice Of Farming Reaches Back Farther Than Thought

Posted February 13, 2007:

• Chimp Stone Age: West African Chimpanzees Have Been Cracking Nuts With Stone Tools For Thousands Of Years
• Researchers Unearth 4,300-year-old Chimpanzee Technology; 'Stone Hammers' Fuel Evolutionary Debate

Posted February 12, 2007:

• Mummy's Amazing American Maize

Posted January 24, 2007:

• First Genetic Evidence Of Long-lived African Presence Within Britain

Posted January 16, 2007:

• 40,000-year-old Skull Shows Both Modern Human And Neandertal Traits

Posted January 12, 2007:

• 'Out Of Africa' Theory Boost: Skull Dating Suggests Modern Humans Evolved In Africa

Posted January 4, 2007:

• Researchers Track Movements Of Ancient Central Americans Using Satellites, Video-game Technology

Posted December 5, 2006:

• Gendered Division Of Labor Gave Modern Humans Advantage Over Neanderthals

Posted November 30, 2006:

• World's Oldest Ritual Discovered -- Worshipped The Python 70,000 Years Ago

Posted November 27, 2006:

• Synchrotron Reveals How Neanderthal Teeth Grew

Posted November 16, 2006:

• Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Yields Surprising Results And Opens A New Door To Future Studies

Posted November 12, 2006:

• Raiding For Women? Female Remains In Graveyards Reflect War In Pre-Hispanic New Mexico

Posted November 10, 2006:

• Varied Diet Of Early Hominid Casts Doubt On Extinction Theory

Posted November 6, 2006:

• More Human-Neandertal Mixing Evidence Uncovered

Posted October 14, 2006:

• Few Clues About African Ancestry To Be Found In Mitochondrial DNA

Posted October 10, 2006:

• New Study Explores Role Of Theater In Maya Political Organization

Posted October 5, 2006:

• Humble Shoelace Tag Carried More Currency Than Gold On Columbus's Travels

Posted October 1, 2006:

• Silver Anomalies Found In Jerusalem Pottery Hint At Wealth During Second Temple Period

Posted September 15, 2006:

• Researchers Find Evidence Of The Earliest Writing In The New World

Posted September 8, 2006:

• Modern Humans, Not Neandertals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out'
• How Did Our Ancestors' Minds Really Work?

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