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Rabbit habit in prehistoric southern Europe had not been expected, because catching one is a huge pain for a very small meal.
Some researchers point to new evidence from archaeology, history, and genetics to argue that the Black Death likely did sow devastation in medieval sub-Saharan Africa.
This finding points to the emergence of beer yeast from a historical East-West transfer of fermentation technology, similar to the transfer of domesticated plants and animals by way of the Silk Route.
The move is part of the lawmakers’ efforts to end the war on drugs in the U.S., which already led to over-policing and incarceration of racial minorities for nonviolent crimes.
Much older than Stonehenge, and even Gobekli Tepe, the ‘Nawarla Gabarnmung’ Stone monument in Arnhem land Australia is 50,000 years old.
The trove of fossils, which date back to the Pleistocene Epoch, have challenged beliefs previously held by paleontologists.
Through directly dating a sample from one of the combs, it has been determined that the artefacts are 2,700-years-old – much older than originally thought.
‘History is being squeezed out’ of a curriculum focused on Stem subjects, educators say.
Findings show that asteroids are stronger than we used to think and require more energy to be completely shattered.
The oldest known marsupials are actually from North America, where they evolved during the Cretaceous period after splitting off from placental mammals at least 125 million years ago.
It turns out, when we have little time left, many of us may see the people we miss the most.
Scientists have recovered the fragments of a Denisovan skull in a Siberian cave, making this rare discovery the fifth Denisovan specimen that has now been identified.
A finding pushes back the timeline on humankind’s conquest of one of Earth’s harshest environments, and may provide clues about interactions with their hominin relatives.
Once dismissed as an “odd-looking little artifact,” the tool pushes back evidence for tattooing in the U.S. Southwest by a millennium.
Remains thought to belong to 500 people discovered among thousands of artefacts including pre-Columbian pottery and Ming Dynasty jade.
Cahokia’s decline is at least partially a story of climate change.
A PNAS study published Monday clears up another misconception we Homo sapiens have always lorded over Neanderthals: their terrible posture.
A mysterious group of extinct humans known as Denisovans is helping to rewrite our understanding of human evolution. Who were they?
Much like humans, fungi can use cultivation, harvesting, storage, dispersal, and division of labor to farm bacteria.
Hundreds of wall etchings were created to trap "evil forces" at Creswell Crags in England.
Some obsidian tools excavated in Poland could be several hundreds of thousands of years old.
Though Teotihuacan may be known, few are familiar with North America's other great ancient city, Cahokia. It was a sprawling civilization.
The Hayabusa2's target - the asteroid named Ryugu - is thought to be as old as the solar system itself.
New species is oldest example of marine mammal ever found in Central America.
Skeletal remains found in southern China have revealed dental characteristics which are surprising for an Upper Paleolithic population.
The Little Swanport property owned by Jane and Tom Teniswood was gifted back in a ceremony held on Thursday attended by more than 100 people.
The find helps fill a frustrating gap in the fossil record at a critical time when tyrannosaurs were evolving from small, speedy hunters, into bone-crushing apex predators.
Early Mississippian Mound cultures shared artistic trends and technologies across regional networks that functioned in similar ways as modern social media, suggests new research.
Why should different methods and different results be shunned when science by design is meant to be challenged?
Cortés and his force would not have been able to overcome a city of 200,000 without help. He got it in the form of a smallpox epidemic.
The authors confirm there was only one skeleton in the grave, and there was no chance of the bones being muddled up as each individual human bone was clearly labeled “Bj.581” in ink.
The researchers suggest that when the evidence is considered as a whole, it appears very likely that fresh meat was a main constituent of the Neanderthal diet.
This is the oldest and longest record of sophisticated, active primate hunting by foragers.
This study is the first to specifically examine the skeletons found there for signs of inbreeding. Overall, they found 17 cases of congenital anomalies.
More than 500 sacrificial and ritualistic relics have been discovered by divers in Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala.
While this may conjure not-so-warm memories of the post-apocalyptic sci-fi The Day After Tomorrow, there’s no need to panic.
In an age where the world is increasingly homogenized, Nelson’s work reminds us of the precious differences that make individual cultural heritage so unique.
This could be the second Neanderthal footprint ever found worldwide - and it's possible it belonged to one of the last members of this species.
Findings from the team at the University of Western Australia are being published in the journal Antiquity this week.
The group described it as a “significant archaeological discovery that indicates a longstanding and continued tie between Wet’suwet’en people and their ancestral territories.”
For twenty million years, the world's oceans were home to a monstrous shark, named the 'megalodon'. Then suddenly, without explanation, the 18-metre-long super predator disappeared.
An upgrade of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is long overdue – it’s time to include the many women and Indigenous leaders time forgot.
A new study suggests megaliths in Europe can be traced back to a single hunter-gatherer culture that started nearly 7000 years ago in what is today the Brittany region of northwestern France.
Researchers have succeeded in pinpointing the exact origins of 700-year-old Chinese pottery items recovered from a shipwreck.
It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it's a wild possibility scientists are actually exploring: how to fit a space station inside an asteroid.
For farmers and breeders who want to settle scores, DNA-mapping projects will provide more clarity about what’s what in the cannasphere.
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The genetic footprint of a “ghost population” may match that of a Neanderthal and Denisovan hybrid fossil found in Siberia.
Hundreds of years before changing the genetic face of Bronze Age Europeans, herders based in western Asia’s steppe grasslands were already mingling and mating with farmers in southeastern Europe.
The Near Earth Object Coordination Centre has upped the risk level for one of the 19,563 asteroids and 107 comets listed as passing through the Earth’s neighbourhood.
Beyond being awesome in every sense of the word, these mammoth species are crucial to keeping their respective ecosystems balanced — and about 60 percent of them are hopelessly doomed.
Eminent Siberian archeologist Professor Mikhail Shunkov challenges Western claims casting doubt on this being the work of ancient Denisovans.
Around 9,000 years ago Clovis-associated individuals were “almost completely replaced” by a population that now resembles modern day indigenous individuals in South America.
Once, about 300 million years ago, when southern Africa was joined at South America's hip, this now arid region was covered in a wide expanse of glaciers.
Iridium, a metal associated with the asteroid that ended the Cretaceous era can act like a stealth bomb, entering the nucleus of a cancer cell.
The defining features of our island shaped our history in ways we might not even understand.
The mummies were found inside four nine-metre deep burial chambers in the desert province of Minya, south of Cairo.
A YouGov poll indicated that a third of Americans aged 18 to 24 were unsure of the shape of our planet, in spite of scientific proofs from Pythagoras to Nasa.
May explain why women more likely to stay mentally sharp in later years.
While these relatives are extinct, their legacy lives on in the modern humans who carry fragments of their DNA and in the tiny artifacts and bones they left behind.
The heavy bombardment of terrestrial planets by asteroids from space has contributed to the formation of the early evolved crust on Earth that later gave rise to continents.
Jeff Bond, a Yukon geologist, says this is the first time a map of Beringia has included lakes, rivers and drainages.
Civilisation’s rise drove it into China’s bamboo forests.
Paul Andrew Hutton is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. His latest book is “The Apache Wars.”
‘Genocide-generated drop in CO2’ resulted from abandoned farmland turning into forests that sucked climate-warming gas from atmosphere.
Two studies provide the first timeline for the Denisovan fossils and DNA, as well as the environments that the Denisovans experienced.
This refers to the practice of scientists and research groups from the global north conducting research and collecting data in poorer parts of the world, and giving little or no credit to their local collaborators.
New study reviews the palaeoecological information associated with hominin dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania throughout the Pleistocene.
Honey bees also have excellent navigation skills, they communicate symbolically through dance, and they can learn abstract concepts.
Just as 21st-century Americans can visit a grocery store stocked with citrus grown in Florida and quinoa from South America, ancient people may have looked beyond what grew locally for dinner.
Discovery of advanced tools in Malaga thousands of years before modern humans were thought to be there may not be that odd: Humans in North Africa 300,000 years ago could see Spain from their porch
Prime minister Scott Morrison defends annual holiday and opposes any changes as protestors take to streets in cities across country
Leaders sent letter to school seeking to ‘build understanding’ after students were filmed in apparent confrontation
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Conservators stabilized famed crypt’s wall paintings, introduced viewing platforms and barriers designed to limit visitor access to fragile areas
Although the number of space rocks striking earth is increasing, the probability of an asteroid strike wiping out mankind is extremely low.
As Treuer shows, the Indians not only have maintained their culture and civilization through some dark years — but in some parts of the country, today, are thriving.
Scientists at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias developed and applied an image processing technique designed to draw out the unseen light in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
This event, and the media whirlwind around it, raise important questions about America’s historic baggage when it comes to issues of race.
From 25 to 28 January, scientists will gather at a workshop at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom to discuss what the new finds suggest about Neanderthal views of death.
Indigenous people and farmers alike fear Walgett has only six months left if they don’t get water.
The construction and clearing of their sophisticated highways, it turns out, relies mainly on independent efforts that add up to unintentional teamwork.
Archaeologists believe that a native civilization smelted the mask before Europeans made their way over and it could be as old as thousands of years BC.
Who was Homo erectus? And could 2019 be the year we learn more about our mysterious ancestor?
New York-based company Honeybee Robotics has teemed up with the University of Central Florida (UFC) to develop a steam-powered robotic spacecraft.
Many of the city’s roads began as indigenous pathways – just one example of Native American infrastructure that helped make Chicago a successful city.
AI has predicted a new hybrid species stemming from Denisovans and Neanderthals that has not yet been identified.
Before 290m years ago, the planet suffered an asteroid strike about once every 3m years, but since then the rate has risen to once nearly every 1m years.
Analysis of fossil teeth reveals that the children of mysterious prehistoric human relatives grew slowly – just like us.
Apophis 99942 is expected to come within 37,600km of the Earth, just a tenth of the distance between our planet and the moon, in 2029.
Geneticists have begun using old bones to make sweeping claims about the distant past. But their revisions to the human story are making some scholars of prehistory uneasy.
Scientists surprised by haul of crustaceans and tardigrades in undisturbed subglacial lake.
As levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide rise and warm the globe, Antarctica's ice will become more vulnerable to cycles on an astronomical scale, particularly the tilt of our planet is as it spins around its axis.
The first direct evidence of white dwarf stars solidifying into crystals has been discovered by astronomers at the University of Warwick, and our skies are filled with them.
Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their behaviour.
Analysis of jaw from 6.5-year-old child in Xujiayao Cave who lived as much as a quarter-million years ago indicates modern-type parental care.
Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities is developing the around the Dendera temple complex into an open-air museum, Ahram Online reports.
Thanks to an ongoing archeological dig, nearly 30,000 artifacts have turned up that could provide context to the rich history of the Michigan-Canada border as well as its indigenous relations.
Rapid shifts in the Earth’s north magnetic pole are forcing researchers to make an unprecedented early update to a model that helps navigation by ships, planes and submarines in the Arctic, scientists said.
A smash-up in the asteroid belt may have turned a previously calm and quiet space rock into a splashier kind of celestial object.
'Awesome' technology could be used to explore 'anywhere there is water and sufficiently low gravity'.
This is very strong circumstantial evidence for an early human presence in eastern Beringia from 32,000 years ago throughout the LGM.