Early Cultures News

Posted March 17, 2008:

• Clovis-Age Overkill Didn't Take Out California's Flightless Sea Duck

Posted March 16, 2008:

• Gold Scroll Discovered: Earliest Evidence Of Jewish Inhabitants In Austria

Posted March 11, 2008:

• Evidence Of Ice Age Hunters: 28 Palaeolithic Handaxes Found In North Sea

Posted March 3, 2008:

• Innovative Archaeological Survey Reveals Unknown Aspects Of China's Past

Posted February 25, 2008:

• Royals Weren't Only Builders Of Maya Temples, Archaeologist Finds

Posted February 16, 2008:

• Human Culture Subject To Natural Selection, Study Shows

Posted February 15, 2008:

• Neanderthals Moved From Place To Place, Tooth Analysis Shows

Posted February 12, 2008:

• Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement Unearthed

Posted February 6, 2008:

• Languages Evolve In Rapid Bursts, Rather Than Following A Steady Pattern

Posted February 1, 2008:

• Globetrotting Black Rat Genes Reveal Spread Of Humans And Diseases

Posted January 29, 2008:

• Cats' Family Tree Rooted In Fertile Crescent, Study Confirms
• Archaeologist 'Strikes Gold' With Finds Of Ancient Nasca Iron Ore Mine In Peru

Posted January 23, 2008:

• Maya Mask Splendor Enhanced With Sparkling Mica

Posted January 18, 2008:

• Genome Scan Shows Polynesians Have Little Genetic Relationship To Melanesians

Posted January 1, 2008:

• Riddle Of The Jade Jewels Reveals Vast Trade Arena
• New Report On First Death By Spearing In Australia

Posted December 13, 2007:

• Captain Kidd's Shipwreck Of 1699 Discovered

Posted December 4, 2007:

• Neanderthal Children Grew Up Fast

Posted November 26, 2007:

• Gene Study Supports Single Main Migration Across Bering Strait

Posted November 21, 2007:

• Remains Of Ancient Synagogue With Unique Mosaic Floor Found In Galilee

Posted November 14, 2007:

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

Posted November 5, 2007:

• Earliest Birds Acted More Like Turkeys Than Common Cuckoos

Posted October 25, 2007:

• New Ideas About Human Migration From Asia To Americas

Posted October 24, 2007:

• Filling In The Blanks Of Southeast Asian Prehistory

Posted October 18, 2007:

• Genetic Ancestral Testing Cannot Deliver On Its Promise, Study Warns
• Neandertals, Humans Share Key Changes To 'Language Gene'

Posted October 17, 2007:

• Earliest Evidence Of Modern Humans Detected

Posted October 14, 2007:

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

Posted October 12, 2007:

• Inconsistencies With Neanderthal Genomic DNA Sequences

Posted September 20, 2007:

• Human Ancestors More Primitive That Once Thought

Posted September 11, 2007:

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

Posted September 10, 2007:

• Ancient 'Escape Tunnel' Discovered In Israel

Posted September 9, 2007:

• Physics Reveals The Secrets Of Saint Francis

Posted September 5, 2007:

• Ancient Human DNA Extracted From Yucca Leaves Spat Out

Posted September 3, 2007:

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

Posted August 30, 2007:

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

Posted August 13, 2007:

• Handsome By Chance: Why Humans Look Different From Neanderthals
• Facial Attraction: Choice Of Sexual Partner Shaped The Human Face

Posted August 7, 2007:

• Early Modern Human Skull Includes Surprising Neanderthal Feature

Posted August 5, 2007:

• Stone Age Site Surfaces After 8000 Years

Posted August 1, 2007:

• Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago

Posted July 20, 2007:

• Why Humans Walk On Two Legs

Posted June 27, 2007:

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

Posted June 19, 2007:

• Neanderthal Man Was An Innovator

Posted June 18, 2007:

• Discovery Of The Oldest Adornments In The World

Posted June 16, 2007:

• Ancient Etruscans Were Immigrants From Anatolia, Or What Is Now Turkey

Posted June 9, 2007:

• 2008 World Monuments Watch List Of 100 Most Endangered Sites

Posted June 7, 2007:

• 'Cultured' Chimpanzees Pass On Novel Traditions

Posted May 31, 2007:

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

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