Early Cultures News

Posted August 1, 2006:

• Radiocarbon Testing Challenges Understanding Of Ancient Hawaiian Architecture, Social Complexity

Posted July 20, 2006:

• Germans Set Up An Apartheid-like Society In Britain
• Neandertal Genome To Be Deciphered

Posted June 24, 2006:

• Earliest Known 'Bling' Revealed

Posted June 13, 2006:

• Backs To The Future: Aymara Language And Gesture Point To Mirror-Image View Of Time

Posted June 7, 2006:

• 100,000 Year-old DNA Sequence Allows New Look At Neandertal's Genetic Diversity

Posted May 26, 2006:

• Ancient Etruscans Unlikely Ancestors Of Modern Tuscans, Statistical Testing Reveals

Posted May 17, 2006:

• Ancient Tomb Sheds New Light On Egyptian Colonialism
• Coral Reef Reveals History Of Fickle Weather In The Central Pacific

Posted April 16, 2006:

• Chimpanzees And Humans Have Gene Variant, For Different Reasons

Posted March 7, 2006:

• First Amazon-Andean Crop Plant Transfer And Corn Processing In Peru 3600-4000 Years Ago

Posted March 1, 2006:

• The Evolution Of Right- And Left-handedness

Posted February 28, 2006:

• Joining The Hunt: New Study Investigates Role Of 'Showoff Hypothesis' In Social Decisions

Posted February 20, 2006:

• Early Human Ancestors Walked On The Wild Side

Posted January 24, 2006:

• UNC Charlotte Linguist Restores Lost Language, Culture For 'The New World'

Posted January 19, 2006:

• New Study Reveals Neanderthals Were As Good At Hunting As Early Modern Humans

Posted January 6, 2006:

• Researchers Discover Greek Temple In Albania Dating Back To 6th Century B.C.

Posted January 4, 2006:

• The First Baby Boom: Skeletal Evidence Shows Abrupt Worldwide Increase In Birth Rate During Neolithic Period

Posted December 20, 2005:

• Why We Give: New Study Finds Evidence Of Generosity Among Our Early Human Ancestors

Posted December 16, 2005:

• Earliest Evidence For Large Scale Organized Warfare In The Mesopotamian World

Posted December 1, 2005:

• New Research Shows How Evolution Explains Age Of Puberty

Posted November 25, 2005:

• Earliest Animals Had Human-like Genes

Posted November 13, 2005:

• Earliest European Farmers Left Little Genetic Mark On Modern Europe

Posted November 7, 2005:

• Modern Humans Arrival In South Asia May Have Led To Demise Of Indigenous Populations
• Genetics Used To Prove Linguistic Theories

Posted October 13, 2005:

• Radiocarbon Dates Reveal That New Guinea Art Is Older Than Thought

Posted September 20, 2005:

• Neanderthal Teeth Grew No Faster Than Comparable Modern Humans'

Posted August 26, 2005:

• New Understanding Of Human Sacrifice In Early Peru

Posted August 22, 2005:

• Early Humans Wore 'Shoes' 30,000 Years Ago

Posted August 16, 2005:

• Studies Of Amazonian Languages Challenge Linguistic Theories

Posted August 10, 2005:

• New Analysis Of Pottery Stirs Olmec Trade Controversy

Posted August 5, 2005:

• Study Shows Big Game Hunters, Not Climate Change, Killed Off Sloths

Posted July 29, 2005:

• Ancient Tiberias Reveals More Of Its Beauty

Posted July 8, 2005:

• Researchers Simulate Long-gone Societies Of The American Southwest

Posted June 9, 2005:

• Human Inhabitants Of Madagascar Are Genetically Unique

Posted June 2, 2005:

• Joint Genome Institute Sequences DNA Of Prehistoric Cave Bears

Posted May 25, 2005:

• Prejudice Is Hard-wired Into The Human Brain, Says ASU Study

Posted May 20, 2005:

• Modern Humans Or Neandertals? New Evidence Sheds Light On Cave Fossils' Age

Posted March 9, 2005:

• Retrovirus Struck Ancestors Of Chimps And Gorillas Millions Of Years Ago, But Not Ancestral Humans

Posted February 28, 2005:

• The Oldest Homo Sapiens: Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago

Posted February 26, 2005:

• 'Man The Hunter' Theory Is Debunked In New Book

Posted February 16, 2005:

• Chinese Used Diamonds To Polish Sapphire-rich Stone In 2500 BC

Posted February 3, 2005:

• New Language Points To Foundations Of Human Grammar

Posted January 21, 2005:

• Anthropologists Find 4.5 Million-year-old Hominid Fossils In Ethiopia

Posted January 12, 2005:

• Evidence That Human Brain Evolution Was A Special Event

Posted January 4, 2005:

• Archaeologists Shed New Light On Americas’ Earliest Known Civilization

Posted December 13, 2004:

• McMaster Researchers Seek To Unlock The Mysteries Of Ancient Potters

Posted December 9, 2004:

• Sacrificial Burial Deepens Mystery At Teotihuacan, But Confirms The City's Militarism

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