Early Cultures News

Posted December 14, 2007:

• Captain Kidd's Shipwreck Of 1699 Discovered

Posted December 5, 2007:

• Neanderthal Children Grew Up Fast

Posted November 28, 2007:

• Gene Study Supports Single Main Migration Across Bering Strait

Posted November 20, 2007:

• Maya Politics Likely Played Role In Ancient Large-Game Decline

Posted November 6, 2007:

• Earliest Birds Acted More Like Turkeys Than Common Cuckoos

Posted October 29, 2007:

• New Ideas About Human Migration From Asia To Americas

Posted October 26, 2007:

• Filling In The Blanks Of Southeast Asian Prehistory

Posted October 21, 2007:

• Neandertals, Humans Share Key Changes To 'Language Gene'

Posted October 20, 2007:

• Genetic Ancestral Testing Cannot Deliver On Its Promise, Study Warns

Posted October 17, 2007:

• Earliest Evidence Of Modern Humans Detected

Posted October 16, 2007:

• Brain Imaging Shows Similarities & Differences In Thoughts Of Chimps And Humans

Posted October 14, 2007:

• Inconsistencies With Neanderthal Genomic DNA Sequences

Posted September 26, 2007:

• Human Ancestors More Primitive That Once Thought

Posted September 12, 2007:

• Was Ability To Run Early Man's Achilles Heel?

Posted September 11, 2007:

• Physics Reveals The Secrets Of Saint Francis

Posted September 10, 2007:

• Ancient 'Escape Tunnel' Discovered In Israel

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 11, 2007:

• 2008 World Monuments Watch List Of 100 Most Endangered Sites

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 17, 2007:

• Ancient Wooden Anchor Discovered

Posted May 10, 2007:

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

Posted April 25, 2007:

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

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 30, 2007:

• Earliest Semitic Text Revealed In Egyptian Pyramid Inscription

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