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Competition, Not Climate Change, Led To Neanderthal Extinction, Study Shows
December 30, 2008 Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with Cro-Magnon populations, rather than the consequences of climate change, according to a new ... > full story -
Archaeological Discovery: Earliest Evidence Of Our Cave-Dwelling Human Ancestors
December 21, 2008 Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of our cave-dwelling human ancestors at the Wonderwerk Cave in South ... > full story -
4,000-Year-Old Amber Necklace Has Been Unearthed In England
December 15, 2008 The rare find was unearthed from a stone-lined grave -- known as a Cist. It is the first time a necklace of this kind from the early Bronze Age has been found in north west ... > full story -
Iron Age 'Sacrifice' Is Britain's Oldest Surviving Brain
December 13, 2008 The oldest surviving human brain in Britain, dating back at least 2000 years to the Iron Age, has been unearthed during excavations on the site of the University of York's campus expansion at ... > full story -
Unique Archaeological Discovery In Balkan: World’s First Illyrian Trading Post Found
December 10, 2008 Archaeologists have found the very first traces of an Illyrian trading post that is more than two thousand years old. The Illyrians were an ancient people who lived by hunting, fishing and ... > full story -
Funerary Monument Reveals Iron Age Belief That The Soul Lived In The Stone
November 19, 2008 Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from the ... > full story -
Small Islands Given Short Shrift In Assembling Archaeological Record
November 14, 2008 Small islands dwarf large ones in archaeological importance, says a University of Florida researcher, who found that people who settled the Caribbean before Christopher Columbus preferred more minute ... > full story -
Gold Earring 2,000 Years Old Discovered In Excavations In Jerusalem
November 11, 2008 A 2,000 year old gold earring inlaid with pearls and precious stones was discovered in excavations that the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting in the Giv'ati car park at the City of David, in ... > full story -
Earliest Known Hebrew Text In Proto-Canaanite Script Discovered In Area Where 'David Slew Goliath'
November 3, 2008 The earliest known Hebrew text written in a Proto-Canaanite script has been discovered by Hebrew University archaeologists in an ancient city in the area where legend has it that David slew Goliath ... > full story -
Tools Give Earlier Date For ‘modern-Thinking’ Humans
November 3, 2008 Archaeologists have dated two explosions of sophisticated stone tool making in southern Africa much more precisely than has previously been possible and provided new information about stone tool ... > full story -
Fire Out Of Africa: A Key To The Migration Of Prehistoric Humans
October 28, 2008 The ability to make fire millennia ago was likely a key factor in the migration of prehistoric hominids from Africa into Eurasia, according to an archaeologist studying the findings at the Gesher ... > full story -
King Solomon's Copper Mines?
October 28, 2008 Did the Bible's King David and his son Solomon control the copper industry in present-day southern Jordan? Though that remains an open question, the possibility is raised once again by research ... > full story
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