All Articles Tagged As: humans

Reconstruction the brain morphology of Homo Liujiang cranium fossil by 3-D CT (7/19/2008)

Reconstruction will help explain the evolution of the human brain ...> Full Article

Archaeologists trace early irrigation farming in ancient Yemen (7/18/2008)

In the remote desert highlands of southern Yemen, a team of archaeologists have discovered new evidence of ancient transitions from hunting and herding to irrigation agriculture 5,200 years ago. ...> Full Article

Researcher Leads Underwater Archeological Expedition in Gulf of Mexico in Search of First Americans (7/15/2008)

Study will contribute to our understanding of early humans in North America ...> Full Article

Archaeologists find silos and administration center from early Egyptian city (7/3/2008)

Expedition at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt has unearthed a large administration building and silos that provide fresh clues about the emergence of urban life. ...> Full Article

Researchers Test Canine Tooth Strength for Clues to Behavior of Early Human Ancestors (6/27/2008)

Measuring and testing the teeth of living primates could provide a window into the behavior of the earliest human ancestors, based on their fossilized remains ...> Full Article

Hidden City Provides Fascinating Insight into the Structures of Hellenistic Settlements (6/24/2008)

The discovery of an ancient city buried beneath the sands of modern-day Syria has provided evidence for a Hellenistic settlement that existed for more than six centuries extending into the time of the Roman Empire ...> Full Article

Dig reveals unknown First Nations group (6/20/2008)

A fortified village that pre-dates European arrival in Western Canada and is the only one of its kind discovered on the Canadian plains is yielding intriguing evidence of an unknown First Nations group settling on the prairies and is rekindling new ties between the Siksika Nation and aboriginal groups in the United States. ...> Full Article

Cutting-edge weapons result of prehistoric experimentation (6/13/2008)

Researchers find stone projectile variations point to early technological experimentation ...> Full Article

Leicestershire burial mounds reveal ancestral insights (6/12/2008)

Excavation shows how ancient cemetery was reused by successive communities ...> Full Article

'Cursus' is older than Stonehenge (6/12/2008)

Archeologists have come a step closer to solving the 285-year-old riddle of an ancient monument thought to be a precursor to Stonehenge. ...> Full Article

New Zealand colonised 1000 years later (6/4/2008)

Palaeontologist has helped to uncover compelling new evidence that New Zealand was discovered 1000 years later than commonly believed. ...> Full Article

Men fighting over women? It's nothing new, suggests research (6/3/2008)

New researchers suggests that neighbouring tribes from prehistoric times were prepared to brutally kill their male rivals to secure their women. ...> Full Article

Dates for stonehenge burials signify long use as cemetery (6/2/2008)

Excavations Turn Up Vivid Remains of Stone Age Life ...> Full Article

Archaeologists explore Peruvian mystery (5/24/2008)

Archaeologists have been investigating the enigmatic desert drawings for several years ...> Full Article

Pharaoh's Unusual Feminine Appearance Suggests Two Gene Defects (5/21/2008)

The feminine features and elongated head of ancient Egypt's King Akhenaten may be attributed to two genetic defects called aromatose excess syndrome and craniosynostosis ...> Full Article

Seaweed Fragments Found in Chile Suggests Humans May Have Migrated Along Pacific Coast (5/12/2008)

Based on 14,000-year-old seaweed fragments found at a Chilean archaeological site, researchers suggest that the first humans in the Americas may have migrated along the Pacific coast. ...> Full Article

Ancient Beachcombers May Have Travelled Slowly (5/10/2008)

Earliest known human settlement in the Americas raises new questions ...> Full Article

Ancient mystery unlocked (4/30/2008)

A 2000-year-old mystery in the form of a large golden earring ...> Full Article

Early parents didn't stand for weighty kids (4/24/2008)

Scientists investigating the reasons why early humans - the so-called hominins - began walking upright say it's unlikely that the need to carry children was a factor, as has previously been suggested. ...> Full Article

Synchrotron light unveils oil in ancient Buddhist paintings from Bamiyan (4/23/2008)

Cave in Afghanistan shows oldest use of oil based painting. ...> Full Article

Research chips away at the past (4/8/2008)

Archaeologist is following tool migration to learn how humans migrated throughout the world ...> Full Article

Archaeologist Finds Oldest Known Gold Artifacts in the Americas (4/5/2008)

Researcher uncovers the earliest gold jewelry dating back 4,000 years ...> Full Article

Russian-American research team examines origins of whaling culture (4/4/2008)

Recent findings by a Russian-American research team suggest that prehistoric cultures were hunting whales at least 3,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than was previously known ...> Full Article

Were Assyrian rulers the forefathers of today's CEOs? (4/3/2008)

Assyrians knew value of location ...> Full Article

Neandertal's prehistoric diet may have lacked a crucial element (4/1/2008)

One of the most mysterious creatures that ever walked the earth was Neandertal, a prehistoric human-like being who first appeared about 230,000 years ago in Europe. Scientists have been debating since the first remains were found in 1856: Was he one of us or a separate species? ...> Full Article

Team determines gender of science center's mummy (3/27/2008)

research team recently helped the Louisville Science Center learn more about an old friend - a 2,600-year-old friend. ...> Full Article

Researcher Settles Debate Over Early Human Origins: Fossils Show Upright Walking as Early as Six Million Years Ago (3/24/2008)

Researchers have discovered that humans' early ancestors were adapted to walking upright on two legs almost six million years ago, settling scientific debate over fossils discovered in 2000. This finding shows that the fossils belong to very early human ancestors and that upright walking is one of the first human characteristics to appear in our lineage, just after the split between human and chimpanzee lineages ...> Full Article

Scientists Say Early Americans Arrived Earlier (3/21/2008)

Anthropologists now believes the first Americans came to this country 1,000 to 2,000 years earlier than the 13,500 years ago previously thought, which could shift historic timelines. ...> Full Article

Anthropology Research Team Finds That 'Hobbit' Fossil Evidence Is Linked To Human Evolution (3/20/2008)

New Methods To Study and Compare Skull Shapes Illustrate Evolution is Not a Linear Path ...> Full Article

Natural Selection and the Human Skull (3/19/2008)

New research adds to the evidence that chance, rather than natural selection, best explains why the skulls of modern humans and ancient Neanderthals evolved differently. The findings may alter how anthropologists think about human evolution. ...> Full Article

Evidence of Ice Age hunters found below North Sea (3/15/2008)

An amazing collection of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years-old, have been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great Yarmouth. ...> Full Article

Classics professor exploring a 'lost' city of the Mycenaeans (3/14/2008)

Along an isolated, rocky stretch of Greek shoreline, a Florida State University researcher and his students are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged, "lost" harbor town believed to have been built by the ancient Mycenaeans nearly 3,500 years ago. ...> Full Article

Bone Detective Digs His Work (3/13/2008)

Archaeologists and historians have assembled to solve this ancient murder mystery. ...> Full Article

Hobbits may be human after all (3/6/2008)

Researchers have joined the worldwide debate over the hobbit-like fossils found on the Indonesian island of Flores, with a controversial new theory suggesting their primitive features are the result of a medical condition. ...> Full Article

Innovative archaeological survey reveals unknown aspects of China's past (3/4/2008)

At 13 years, one of longest running Sino-American scientific collaborations of any kind ...> Full Article

Royals weren't only builders of Maya temples, archaeologist finds (2/26/2008)

An intrepid archaeologist is well on her way to dislodging the prevailing assumptions of scholars about the people who built and used Maya temples. ...> Full Article

Nuclear 'Eye' Reveals That Napoleon Was Not Poisoned, Although Arsenic Levels High At That Time (2/12/2008)

Arsenic poisoning did not kill Napoleon in Saint Helena, as affirmed by a new meticulous examination performed at the laboratories of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Milano-Bicocca and Pavia, together with the University of Milano-Bicocca and the University of Pavia. ...> Full Article

Bronze Age remains found at Cambridge college (1/20/2008)

Archaeologists digging in the grounds of a Cambridge University college have unearthed the first hard evidence that the area was occupied during the Bronze Age. ...> Full Article

New Report On First Death By Spearing In Australia (1/6/2008)

A new report led by an Australian National University archaeologist on the first evidence of death by spearing in Australia has been published in the British journal Antiquity. ...> Full Article

Where and Why Humans Made Skates Out of Animal Bones (12/22/2007)

Where and Why Humans Made Skates Out of Animal Bones ...> Full Article

New dating methods amongst the Top 10 Scientific discoveries of the Year (12/22/2007)

Time Magazine has named a study by Oxford researchers, using new dating techniques on a human skull to help find out where our most recent common ancestor came from, as one of the Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of the Year. ...> Full Article

Female lower back has evolved to accommodate strain of pregnancy (12/16/2007)

Evolutionary differences in male and female spine ...> Full Article

Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-year-old Human; Points To Modern Health Issues (12/9/2007)

Although most scientists believe tuberculosis emerged only several thousand years ago, new research from The University of Texas at Austin reveals the most ancient evidence of the disease has been found in a 500,000-year-old human fossil from Turkey. ...> Full Article

Did Early Southwestern Indians Ferment Corn And Make Beer? (12/8/2007)

The belief among some archeologists that Europeans introduced alcohol to the Indians of the American Southwest may be faulty. ...> Full Article

Tooth growth suggests rapid maturation in a Neanderthal Child (12/6/2007)

An international European research collaboration led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology reports evidence for a rapid developmental pattern in a 100,000 year old Belgian Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis). The report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (online edition early December), details how the team used growth lines both inside and on the surfaces of the child's teeth to reconstruct tooth formation time and its' age at death. ...> Full Article

Neanderthal-modern human hybrid not supported (12/3/2007)

Among the earliest reliably dated modern human fossils from Europe is the Cioclovina calvaria from Romania. This individual lived about 28-29 thousand years before present, and has recently been argued to represent a Neanderthal-modern human hybrid. ...> Full Article

How our ancestors were like gorillas (12/1/2007)

Fossils illustrate sex differences in growth and the costs of being a male ...> Full Article

Digging Biblical History At 'The End Of The World' (11/24/2007)

Tel Aviv University archaeologists are studying Tel Megiddo, the New Testament location of "Armageddon," and unearthing truths about King Solomon. ...> Full Article

Archaeology unearths gout in early Pacific people (11/20/2007)

High rates of gout among Māori and Pacific Island men may have a genetic basis going back thousands of years to the time when Polynesia and Melanesia were being colonised from South East Asia. ...> Full Article

Chocolate drinks - probably fermented ones - popular long before previously thought, says anthropologist (11/19/2007)

Mesoamerican menus featured cacao beverages - probably fermented ones - at least as early as 1100 B.C., some 500 years earlier than previously documented anywhere, according to new research published in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...> Full Article

Anthropologist digs ancient Sudan bones (11/15/2007)

From the looks of the woman's skeleton, she might have been in a serious car accident. But, the woman lived sometime between A.D. 300 and A.D. 600, so it was obviously not a crash that killed her. ...> Full Article

Human Ancestors: Gatherers or Hunters? (11/13/2007)

Early humans may have dug potato-like foods with tools ...> Full Article

Age of earliest human burial in Britain pinpointed (11/2/2007)

The oldest known buried remains in Britain are 29,000 years old, archaeologists have found - 4,000 years older than previously thought. The findings show that ceremonial burials were taking place in western Europe much earlier than researchers had believed. ...> Full Article

Earliest ancient cemetery in the Pacific (11/1/2007)

Analysis of strange burial positions and skeletons' teeth has given clues about earliest Pacific Island society, according to new research published today. ...> Full Article

Ancient Seal Belonged To Queen Jezebel (10/30/2007)

Utrecht University Old Testament scholar Dr Marjo Korpel has discovered that a seal found in 1964 and dating from the 9th century BCE belonged to the biblical figure Queen Jezebel. The seal's symbols served as the basis for Korpel's conclusion. ...> Full Article

Filling In The Blanks Of Southeast Asian Prehistory (10/26/2007)

As archaeologists in the last half century have set about reconstructing the prehistory of Southeast Asia, data from one country-centrally located Laos-was conspicuously missing. Little archaeology has occurred in Laos since before World War II, and beginning in the mid-1970s, Laos shut its doors completely to outside researchers. International scholars had to content themselves with information from excavation and survey work mostly from neighboring Thailand. ...> Full Article

Fossilized Cashew Nuts Reveal Europe Was Important Route Between Africa And South America (10/24/2007)

Cashew nut fossils have been identified in 47-million year old lake sediment in Germany, revealing that the cashew genus Anacardium was once distributed in Europe, remote from its modern "native" distribution in Central and South America. It was previously proposed that Anacardium and its African sister genus, Fegimanra, diverged from their common ancestor when the landmasses of Africa and South America separated. However, groundbreaking new data in the October issue of the International Journal of Plant Sciences indicate that Europe may be an important biogeographic link between Africa and the New World. ...> Full Article

Early Apes Walked Upright 15 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, Evolutionary Biologist Argues (10/11/2007)

An extraordinary advance in human origins research reveals evidence of the emergence of the upright human body plan over 15 million years earlier than most experts have believed. More dramatically, the study confirms preliminary evidence that many early hominoid apes were most likely upright bipedal walkers sharing the basic body form of modern humans. ...> Full Article

Stone Age farmers used fire and flood to create first paddy fields (10/4/2007)

Stone Age farmers in eastern China used fire and flood control to create the first known rice paddy fields. ...> Full Article

Inca Children Were Fattened-up Before Sacrifice, Hair Samples Show (10/1/2007)

Hair samples from naturally preserved child mummies discovered at the world's highest archaeological site in the Andes have provided a startling insight into the lives of the children chosen for sacrifice. Researchers used DNA and stable isotope analysis to show how children as young as 6-years old were "fattened up" and taken on a pilgrimage to their death. ...> Full Article