Domestication of the donkey March 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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An international group of researchers has found evidence for the earliest transport use of the donkey and the early phases of donkey domestication, suggesting the process of domestication may have been slower and less linear ... | |
Micronesian Islands colonized by small-bodied humans March 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Since the reporting of the so-called “hobbit” fossil from the island of Flores in Indonesia, debate has raged as to whether these remains are of modern humans (Homo sapiens), reduced, for some reason, in stature, or whether ... | |
A fossilized giant rhino bone questions the isolation of Anatolia, 25 million years ago March 10, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Contrary to generally accepted belief, Anatolia was not geographically isolated 25 million years ago (during the Oligocene epoch): this has just been demonstrated by researchers from the Laboratoire des Mécanismes et Transferts ... | |
 Scientists discover massive Jurassic marine reptile March 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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University of Alaska Museum of the North earth sciences curator Patrick Druckenmiller spent several weeks last summer working with a Norwegian research team to excavate a large pliosaur specimen in the remote ... | |
 Archeologists Find Ancient Cemetery in Egypt March 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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The El Hibeh tell — a mound of ancient human architecture, artifacts and debris — is so rich with the remnants of human life in central Egypt that shards of pottery literally crunch under a visitor’s feet. ... | |
 Evidence of commerce between ancient Israel and China March 04, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Throughout the 12th and 13th centuries - during the time of the Crusades –ceramic vessels reached Acre from: Mediterranean regions, the Levant, Europe, North Africa, and even China – reveals new research, ... | |
 Keeping Traditions in a Modern-Day Bedouin Village March 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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University of Arkansas researchers have used modern digital-mapping technology to uncover an ancient tradition still practiced by a Bedouin tribe that once roamed Jordan but now has settled into a modern village. ... | |
 Innovative archaeological survey reveals unknown aspects of China's past March 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Imagine future archaeologists trying to understand Illinois, California or New York based on a few excavations in each of those states. They might excavate small areas in city centers, since those sites would ... | |
Centuries-old Maya Blue mystery finally solved February 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts ... | |
 Royals weren't only builders of Maya temples, archaeologist finds February 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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An intrepid archaeologist is well on her way to dislodging the prevailing assumptions of scholars about the people who built and used Maya temples. | |
 Vikings did not dress the way we thought February 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 44 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, ... | |
 Scientists Discover 'Giant Fossil Frog from Hell' February 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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A giant frog fossil from Madagascar dubbed Beelzebufo or ‘the frog from Hell' has been identified by scientists from UCL (University College London) and Stony Brook University, New York. The discovery of the ... | |
 High-tech conservation solutions for old warship February 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Scientists from the Mary Rose Trust are using cutting edge synchrotron technology at Diamond Light Source to provide 21st century solutions to enhance the conservation of Henry VIII’s Tudor warship. This work ... | |
 New meat-eating dinosaur duo from Sahara ate like hyenas, sharks February 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Two new 110 million-year-old dinosaurs unearthed in the Sahara Desert highlight the unusual meat-eaters that prowled southern continents during the Cretaceous Period. Named Kryptops and Eocarcharia in a paper ... | |
 Team uncovers Egypt's earliest agricultural settlement February 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Archaeologists from UCLA and the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands have found the earliest evidence ever discovered of an ancient Egyptian agricultural settlement, including farmed grains, remains ... | |
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