Early Cultures News

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

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 May 1, 2006:

• UCLA Egyptologists To Launch New E-Encyclopedia

Posted April 15, 2006:

• Chimpanzees And Humans Have Gene Variant, For Different Reasons

Posted March 6, 2006:

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

Posted February 28, 2006:

• The Evolution Of Right And Left-Handedness
• 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 31, 2006:

• Archaeologists Uncover One Of Biggest Medieval Graveyards

Posted January 23, 2006:

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

Posted January 18, 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 3, 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 30, 2005:

• Alleged 40,000-Year-Old Human Footprints In Mexico Much, Much Older Than Thought

Posted November 24, 2005:

• Earliest Animals Had Human-Like Genes

Posted November 14, 2005:

• Archaeologists: Ancient Brewery Tended By Elite, Female Brewmasters

Posted November 12, 2005:

• Earliest European Farmers Left Little Genetic Mark On Modern Europe

Posted November 7, 2005:

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

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 21, 2005:

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

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