Early Cultures News

Posted May 31, 2007:

• Anthropologist Discovers Ancient Tomb In Honduras

Posted May 29, 2007:

• Recently Excavated Headless Skeleton Expands Understanding Of Ancient Andean Rituals

Posted May 16, 2007:

• Ancient Wooden Anchor Discovered

Posted May 9, 2007:

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

Posted April 24, 2007:

• Studying Early China, To Learn Why Civilizations Rise And Fall

Posted April 23, 2007:

• The Emerging Fate Of The Neandertals

Posted March 23, 2007:

• New Evidence Of 'Human' Culture Among Primates

Posted March 13, 2007:

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

Posted March 12, 2007:

• Pig Study Forces Rethink Of Pacific Colonisation

Posted February 27, 2007:

• Ancient Retrovirus Is Resurrected

Posted February 20, 2007:

• Practice Of Farming Reaches Back Farther Than Thought

Posted February 18, 2007:

• Birth Rate, Competition Are Major Players In Hominid Extinctions

Posted February 13, 2007:

• Chimp Stone Age: West African Chimpanzees Have Been Cracking Nuts With Stone Tools For Thousands Of Years

Posted February 12, 2007:

• Researchers Unearth 4,300-Year-Old Chimpanzee Technology; 'Stone Hammers' Fuel Evolutionary Debate

Posted February 11, 2007:

• Mummy's Amazing American Maize

Posted January 29, 2007:

• Earliest Semitic Text Revealed In Egyptian Pyramid Inscription

Posted January 24, 2007:

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

Posted January 15, 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 3, 2007:

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

Posted January 2, 2007:

• The Evolution Of Human Diet

Posted December 4, 2006:

• Gendered Division Of Labor Gave Modern Humans Advantage Over Neanderthals

Posted November 30, 2006:

• Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Curse: Tablet To God Maglus Invokes Destruction Of Cloak-Pilferer
• 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 9, 2006:

• Varied Diet Of Early Hominid Casts Doubt On Extinction Theory

Posted November 3, 2006:

• More Human-Neandertal Mixing Evidence Uncovered

Posted October 25, 2006:

• Early Bronze Age Mortuary Complex Discovered In Syria

Posted October 13, 2006:

• Comparing Chimp, Human DNA

Posted October 12, 2006:

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

Posted October 9, 2006:

• Compelling Evidence Demonstrates That 'Hobbit' Fossil Does Not Represent A New Species Of Hominid

Posted October 3, 2006:

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

Posted October 2, 2006:

• New Study Explores Role Of Theater In Maya Political Organization

Posted September 27, 2006:

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

Posted September 20, 2006:

• Earliest Baby Girl Ever Discovered: Australopithecus Afarensis Child Sheds Light On Human Evolution

Posted September 14, 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?

Posted September 4, 2006:

• Social Imitation In Neonatal Monkeys

Posted August 30, 2006:

• Chimpanzees Can Transmit Cultural Behavior To Multiple 'Generations'

Posted August 25, 2006:

• Use Of Stone Hammers Sheds Light On Geographic Patterns Of Chimpanzee Tool Use

Posted August 24, 2006:

• How Modern Were European Neanderthals?

Posted August 15, 2006:

• Bison Hunters More Advanced Than Thought: Archaeologist

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 23, 2006:

• Earliest Known 'Bling' Revealed

Posted June 13, 2006:

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

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