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New research sheds light on the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis and what platinum can tell us about it.
Carvings show Hapi carrying offerings while surrounded by birds and other animals, and fragments of text mention Ptolemy IV, the fourth pharaoh of Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty.
Genetic studies rely almost entirely on DNA from people of European descent. A startup called 54gene wants to fix that, and fast.
A strain of Y. pestis from Laishevo in Russia’s Volga region was ancestral to all other genomes, differing by only one mutation from those that caused the Black Death in Europe.
Human occupation of Denisova Cave seems to have been sporadic, despite the plethora of tool fragments. And those early humans who took refuge there may have used fire less than expected.
Mark Charles knows his bid is a long shot but hopes to shed light on the historic abuse of Native Americans and other ethnicities.
For indigenous Australians, spiritual listening provides a way to observe and act according to the natural seasons and cycles in a way the modern world seems to have forgotten.
The water locked in asteroids near Earth could fill around 320,000 Olympics-size swimming pools—significantly more than the amount of water locked up at the lunar poles.
As new research shows, animals occupied Denisova Cave more frequently than not, showcasing the pains, perils, and complexities of paleolithic life.
The biodiversity of many forests is preserved by native tribes. They say that logging, oil pipelines, and constructions threaten their sustainability.
US authorities have returned a stolen coffin to Egypt, two years after it was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
The private member’s bill from Labor backbencher Michael Pettersson allows Canberrans over 18 to possess 50 grams of cannabis and grow two plants.
The forgotten history of Indigenous mound building will be reclaimed at this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Plant-derived Epidyolex is first medicine of its kind to be given green light by regulators.
Dust spawned by a gigantic collision in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter 400 million years earlier triggered an ice age on Earth.
A group of Christian missionaries who believe traditional Aboriginal culture is the same as worshiping the devil is burning sacred objects in the Australian Outback.
Marijuana would not only be legalized, but cannabis tax revenue would also be used to directly repay formerly incarcerated people through a new "Drug War Justice Grant" program.
No tidy, new framework has arisen to take the place of older theories. Instead, new data, including genetic findings, continue to complicate the story of how these continents came to be peopled.
Unprecedented feat reveals little-known Denisovans resembled Neanderthals but had ‘super-wide’ skulls.
Though the continent has 3 billion fewer birds than it did in 1970, those losses are hard to glean because it’s the commonest species that have been hit hardest.
The reason: to test whether a spacecraft impact can deflect an asteroid's trajectory, as a means to protect Earth from rogue space rocks.
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A new curriculum from the American Indian Museum brings greater depth and understanding to the long-misinterpreted history of indigenous culture.
The people of pre-colonial Puerto Rico did not disappear entirely—a new study shows that the island’s residents still carry bits of their DNA.
As the world warms up, archaeologists are discovering that some of the most fascinating glimpses of prehistoric life are melting from ice.
This heightened immune reactions, which was likely driven by the adaptation of the immune system to a changing environment.
Tel Aviv University team shows early man intentionally upcycled flint byproducts of stone knapping to efficiently butcher elephants and suck the marrow out of life.
The ancient settlement of Hasankeyf will soon be submerged as part of a controversial dam project – despite residents’ protests.
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Parallels between burial sites in the two regions suggest long-distance networks emerged earlier than previously believed.
These little-understood hominins increased in brain size, spread to new lands and hunted challenging game with finely crafted weapons. The details of their lives and evolutionary relationships are still slim.
“The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness,” Linde concluded.
Archaeologists may have discovered the village where Jesus is said to have appeared after he was crucified.
The 1843 resistance campaign from Multuggerah and his men near Toowoomba was about standing up and saying ‘No more’.
Close examination of the rock layers revealed that the crater was already packed with debris within the first 24 hours, with an estimated 425 feet of material filling the gaping hole within that first day.
For years, scientists have hotly debated which early humans were related to us and which simply died out on a parallel evolutionary branch.
"Greater Adria" existed hundreds of millions of years ago after it broke off from the supercontinent Gondwana.
Scientists have extracted the oldest genetic information ever found, using a technique that could revolutionise our understanding of evolution.
The 257 footprints discovered at Le Rozel in western France give a snapshot of how Neanderthals lived and suggest they may have been taller than previously thought.
By creating virtual 3D skull models, the researchers were able to expand the fossil pool and fill in the gaps of humanity’s evolutionary history.
The findings at Toms Point contradict the standard narrative that all California Indians were killed off or held captive in colonial missions, and later rancherias and reservations.
For the first time, we have a genetic model that fits statistically for most present-day South Asians: mixture of IVC-like people, and other (smaller contributions) from other populations.
Police officers from Devon and Cornwall in UK have launched a huge search operation to look for asteroid debris after neighbors reported that they saw a mysterious glowing object to fall from the sky.
Rather than a symbol of the country's dark past of narco-fueled violence, Santiago smiles and says, Colombian drugs "can now be used to treat people."
The mixture of salts found in evaporites, the material left from the evaporation of brines, was different from the typical composition found on other parchments.
Scientists have extracted ancient DNA from beneath the sea bed to identify the plants and animals that once inhabited the region.
The research also answers longstanding questions about the origins of farming and the source of Indo-European languages in South and Central Asia.
Prohibiting indigenous communities from managing today’s park lands has actually increased the likelihood and intensity of forest fires over time.
Denisovan fingers looked more like ours than like Neanderthals’, even though DNA shows that Denisovans are more closely related to Neanderthals.
The intention is to allow extracts to be used in medicine, cosmetics and food and support hemp as a cash crop.
This confirms the hypothesis made by archaeologists and anthropologists after studying the remains of 15 persons interred on a historic estate.
Egypt’s vast, much-delayed museum is scheduled to open in 2020. But while Tutankhamun’s treasures are being readied for tourists, some critics see the building as a vanity project.
Analysis showed that it seemed to be authentic, dating back to at least 1600 BC, quite likely much older, and likely a creation of the Bronze Age Unetice culture.
New observations now indicate that black holes are born in the explosions of colossal supernovas.
Artifacts from the Cooper’s Landing site poke more holes in the traditional theory of when people arrived in the Americas.
Artifacts found in Idaho support theory that humans reached the Americas before a land route to Asia existed.
Coprolite reveals felines in southern Andes had roundworm 17,000 years ago, long before humans got there.
The skulls paint a picture of an Incan reign of terror, in which the heads of four villagers were put on display as a warning to inhabitants.
Analysis of a decades-old discovery in a remote mountain cave has confirmed suspicions that Neanderthals once roamed in modern-day Iran, expanding the range of our thick-browed cousins.
Scientists announced the landmark discovery in Ethiopia of a nearly complete skull of an early human ancestor that lived 3.8 million years ago, a species boasting an intriguing mixture of apelike and humanlike characteristics.
The puppy found preserved in permafrost in Tumat in 2015 was either a wolf or a domesticated wolf-dog hybrid. In other words, this Pleistocene canid may have been an ancient pet.
The fires blazing in Brazil are part of a larger deforestation crisis, accelerated by President Jair Bolsonaro.
The move raises questions about what that representation in Congress would look like and whether the US will honor an agreement it made almost two centuries ago.
Massive space rock poses no threat but Elon Musk warns ‘a big rock will hit Earth eventually and we currently have no defence’.
The two skulls, dated between 12,000 and 17,000 years old, are the oldest human remains ever found in Wallacea—the islands between Java, Papua New Guinea and Australia.
The government’s preference for modern engineering meant that it missed an opportunity to engage with traditional technologies and local knowledge. Yet traditional technologies have been providing flexible ways to manage water in Huashao for hundreds of years.
The flag’s designer, Harold Thomas gave a worldwide exclusive licence to a non-Indigenous owned company called Wam Clothing, which has been actively enforcing its copyright.
These social communities were quite differently structured, one being made up of mostly mature female rays, and the other a mix of males, females and juveniles.
Some of the rocks resemble carbonaceous chondrite meteorites that have been found crash-landed on Earth.
Their analysis revealed that a seemingly blank patch on the papyrus actually contained characters written in what had become "invisible ink" after centuries of exposure to light.
Artificial cranial deformation has been practiced in various parts of the world.
The Rangihou people took the Parramatta City Council to court in a bid to reclaim the land that covers 112 acres in the heart of the Australian city.
A cannabis chemical may have a “major impact” in the treatment of pancreatic cancer, according to a new study.
A new genomic study tries to see if there’s a correlation between artificial cranial deformation and migration following the collapse of the Roman Empire.
Scientists have found that increasing oxygen levels are linked to the rise of North American dinosaurs around 215 M years ago.
The Guide to Indigenous DC app, which now has more than 600 downloads, takes users on a nine-mile self-guided tour of 17 city sites connected to Native American history.
America's largest impact crater wreaked havoc on the land and water. Scientists are just beginning to understand it.
The queue of applicants—there were 251 in line as of late July—and the attendant monthslong waiting times are frustrating scientists interested in the basic biology and therapeutic possibilities of cannabis.
Palaeolithic sites Tolbor-4 and Tolbor-16 may prove a missing link in the map of these ancient hominins.
Embracing the arts as well as sports, they were masters of many different and complex disciplines.
Stone tools uncovered in Mongolia indicate that modern humans traveled across the Eurasian steppe about 45,000 years ago - about 10,000 years earlier than previously believed.
According to Homer’s ‘Odyssey’, the sorceress invited Odysseus back to her home in a secret cave. Now scientists claim to have found it.
Since its legalisation in November 2018, there have been very few, if any, prescriptions for medical cannabis containing THC on the NHS. And this has led some patients, with conditions such as epilepsy and MS, to pay up to £800 a month privately.
The space agency has a craft orbiting the rock, designated Osiris Rex. A new map is presently being traced for the asteroid, and it will probably feature mythological bird names.
The investigation was limited to freshwater megafauna and included almost no data from South America, Africa, the Mediterranean, or the Middle East.
Many of the world’s freshwater megafauna—including sumo-sized stingrays, colossal catfish, giant turtles, and gargantuan salamanders—may soon find themselves on the brink of extinction.
The region is home to the Ayoreo Totobiegosode tribe - the last people in the Americas outside the Amazon to remain uncontacted by outsiders.
The researchers found that humans settled higher up in the mountains earlier than previously realized and lived in the region for more extended periods as well during the Middle Pleistocene Epoch.
Heracles inexpectatus lived in New Zealand 19 million years ago. It was over three feet tall and weighed greater than 15 kilos.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and cosmochemist Natalie Starkey recently discussed what would happen if the asteroid that caused the Chelyabinsk impact event hit a heavily-populated city.
The new prevalence of these galaxies, which are connected with supermassive black holes and dark matter, contradicts the current known models of the universe.
An international team of archaeologists and explorers is preparing to set sail on a reed boat, hoping to prove that Greek ?rgonauts were not the first to trade on the Black Sea.
Archival records from sky surveys show it had previously been observed but wasn't recognised as a near-Earth asteroid.
The study used data on the number of environmental defender deaths collected from the international human rights group Global Witness.
A genetic mutation that slowed down the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in two or more children may have triggered a cascade of events leading to acquisition of recursive language and modern imagination 70,000 years ago.
The term “Homo sapiens” is no longer working so well. Neither is the closely related term, “modern humans,” used to describe us and fossils of long-dead people who looked something like us.
Study suggests they both understood the phenomenon and had uses for it.
It's been estimated that only about 5 percent of the city has so far been revealed.
Scientists continue to find dangerous asteroids in Earth's vicinity, but to fully capture the threat these nearby space rocks pose, they need tools that aren't in operation now and may not be for years to come.
Sample from an ancient canid gives a first look at the new field of paleo-transcriptomics.
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Researchers use mathematical models to estimate extinction from natural causes.
The move, which would make possession of a small amount of the drug a violation rather than a felony, was signed into law by governor Andrew Cuomo.