New evidence -- Clovis people not first to populate North America February 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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The belief that the Clovis People were the first to populate North America some 11,500 years ago has been widely challenged in recent years, and a Texas A&M University anthropologist has found evidence he says could be the ... | |
New Evidence Suggests Need to Rewrite Bronze Age History May 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Separated in history by 100 years, the seafaring Minoans of Crete and the mercantile Canaanites of northern Egypt and the Levant (a large area of the Middle East) at the eastern end of the Mediterranean were never considered ... | |
 Toothy dinosaur newest to come out of southern Utah October 03, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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The newest dinosaur species to emerge from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument had some serious bite, according to researchers from the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah. | |
Britain’s last Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we thought June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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An archaeological excavation at a site near Pulborough, West Sussex, has thrown remarkable new light on the life of northern Europe’s last Neanderthals. It provides a snapshot of a thriving, developing population – rather ... | |
Beyond Mesopotamia: A radical new view of human civilization reported August 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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A radically expanded view of the origin of civilization, extending far beyond Mesopotamia, is reported by journalist Andrew Lawler in the 3 August issue of Science. | |
 Oldest Known Art and Agriculture Calendar in New World Discovered May 12, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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In one of the most significant archaeological and anthropological finds in recent history, Robert Benfer, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, has discovered the earliest ... | |
 Vikings did not dress the way we thought February 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons, and glittering bits of mirrors - the Vikings dressed with considerably more panache than we previously thought. The men were especially vain, and the women dressed provocatively, ... | |
 'Incredibly lucky' find yields important fish fossil September 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 56 vote(s)
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Searching for a different kind of riches in the ground, an oil company made a priceless find it never expected. | |
Satellite images spy ancient history in Syria August 03, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Ancient human settlements in Syria have been revealed in declassified spy satellite images by a small team of researchers led by ANU PhD student Mandy Mottram. | |
 2,000-year-old mummy goes through 21st-century scanner August 01, 2006 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Oxford University researchers have used full-body scanning, usually used for medical reasons, to look at a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy from the University’s Ashmolean Museum. | |
 Unlocking the Maya Code April 04, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Think of Megan O’Neil’s scholarly work as forensic art history. She’s not looking to solve crimes, although she uncovers plenty of murder and mayhem. | |
Science may hold the clue to an ancient riddle April 28, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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The combination of an international project to enhance carbon dating from archaeological samples, and the remains of an olive tree, may hold part of the clue to resolving an age-old archaeological controversy stemming from ... | |
 A new dinosaur species, Pachyrhinosaur lakustai, unveiled from Pipestone Creek, Alberta, Canada October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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The fossils revealed a herd of dinosaurs that perished in a catastrophic event 72.5 million years ago. The animals are characterized by a bony frill on the back of the skull ornamented with smaller horns. ... | |
 Archaeologists explore Peruvian mystery May 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Indiana Jones may be flying over the Nazca Lines in Peru in his latest Hollywood adventure, but two British archaeologists have been investigating the enigmatic desert drawings for several years. | |
Dramatic shift from simple to complex marine ecosystems occurred 250M years ago at mass extinction November 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 65 vote(s)
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The earth experienced its biggest mass extinction about 250 million years ago, an event that wiped out an estimated 95% of marine species and 70% of land species. New research shows that this mass extinction did more than ... | |
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