 Researcher finds fossilized shell-breaking crab April 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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While waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in the state of Chiapas, Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary ... | |
 URI analysis of rare textiles from Honduras ruins suggests Mayans produced fine fabrics April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Very few textiles from the Mayan culture have survived, so the treasure trove of fabrics excavated from a tomb at the Copán ruins in Honduras since the 1990s has generated considerable excitement. | |
Keeping African artifacts in Africa April 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
It is common for professional archaeologists and paleoanthropologists working in Africa to populate western museums with foreign artifacts by excavating and permanently removing them from history rich communities in Africa. ... | |
 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. | |
The voyage to America: Fossilized human feces reveals the first immigrants April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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A team of researchers led by Danish professor Eske Willerslev shows that the ancestors of the North American Indians who came from Asia were the first people in America, and that they were of neither European nor African ... | |
 Researchers find pre-Clovis human DNA April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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DNA from dried human excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides apparent ... | |
Brunel cement find is world first April 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Archaeologists working on a site in the Bristol Docks have discovered what is thought to be the first ever substantial use of Portland cement in the construction of a major building. The building was designed in 1839 by ... | |
Were Assyrian rulers the forefathers of today's CEOs? April 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Tel Aviv University archaeologists find ancient Jerusalem may be a model for today's corporations. | |
 Archaeologist Finds Oldest Known Gold Artifacts in the Americas March 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Gold has long been more than a fashion statement, and wearing jewelry and other adornments made of it often connotes prestige. And it did not take long for ancient people to figure that out. | |
 Virtual smash-ups show teenaged dome-skulled dinos could knock heads March 31, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
After half a century of debate, a University of Alberta researcher has confirmed that dome-headed dinosaurs called pachycephalosaurs could collide with each other during courtship combat. Eric Snively, an ... | |
Scientists say early Americans arrived earlier March 20, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A team led by two Texas A&M University 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. | |
Ancient reptile rises from Alberta oil sands March 20, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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One of the oldest and most complete plesiosaur fossils recovered in North America, and the oldest yet discovered from the Cretaceous Period, represents a new genus of the prehistoric aquatic predator according to University ... | |
Good luck indeed: 53 million-year-old rabbit's foot bones found March 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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One day last spring, fossil hunter and anatomy professor Kenneth Rose, Ph.D. was displaying the bones of a jackrabbit’s foot as part of a seminar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine when something about the ... | |
 Lemur's Little Finger Poses a Mystery March 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Analysis of the first hand bones belonging to an ancient lemur has revealed a mysterious joint structure that has scientists puzzled. | |
 FSU classics professor exploring a 'lost' city of the Mycenaeans March 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
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