Oetzi the Iceman dressed like a herdsman 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A famous Neolithic Iceman is dressed in clothes made from sheep and cattle hair, a new study shows. The researchers say their findings support the idea that the Iceman was a herdsman, and that their technique, reported today ... | |
 Anropologist explores plausibility of bulbs and tubers in the diet of early human ancestors August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it. Anthropologist Nathaniel J. Dominy of the University of California, Santa Cruz, has advanced the investigation of the diet of early human ancestors ... | |
 Stone Age Graveyard reveals Lifestyles of a 'Green Sahara': Two Successive Cultures Thrived Lakeside August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has been discovered in Niger by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence ... | |
 Professor Examines the Effects of Climate Change on Civilizations August 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Global warming is currently one the world's most pressing issues, but the phenomenon of climate change is not specific to the 21st century. A new book by anthropologist Brian Fagan takes a look at the global ... | |
 New evidence implicates humans in prehistoric animal extinctions August 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Research led by UK and Australian scientists sheds new light on the role that our ancestors played in the extinction of Australia's prehistoric animals. The study, published this week in the journal Proceedings ... | |
 Archaeological excavations uncover Roman temple in Zippori (Sepphoris) August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Ruins of a Roman temple from the second century CE have recently been unearthed in the Zippori National Park in Israel. Above the temple are foundations of a church from the Byzantine period. The excavations, ... | |
 Research reveals the origins of chooks August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The question of whether the egg or the chicken came first may not have been solved, but University of Queensland research is helping find how the humble chook moved around the world. | |
 A potted history of milk August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans were processing cattle milk in pottery vessels more than two thousand years earlier than previously thought, according to new research from the University of Bristol. | |
 Duck-billed dinosaurs outgrew predators to survive August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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With long limbs and a soft body, the duck-billed hadrosaur had few defenses against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research on the bones of this plant-eating dinosaur suggests that it had at least ... | |
 Antarctic fossils paint a picture of a much warmer continent August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra--in the form of fossilized plants and insects--on the interior of the southernmost ... | |
Little teeth suggest big jump in primate timeline August 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids, the primate lineage of today's monkeys, apes and humans, say researchers from Duke University ... | |
Rock art marks transformations in traditional Peruvian societies August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Peru is one of the Latin American countries, like Argentina and Brazil, where rock art is thought to have developed throughout a period stretching from 10,000 BC to 1500 AD. The wealth and diversity of the series of pictorial ... | |
 New life given to ancient Egyptian texts stored at Stanford for decades July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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They're torn and faded and have the woven texture of a flattened Triscuit. At first glance, the ancient Egyptian texts look like scraps of garbage. And more than 2,000 years ago, that's exactly what they were—discarded ... | |
 Unique fossil discovery shows Antarctic was once much warmer July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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A new fossil discovery- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent- provides scientists with new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer. | |
 Lost castle solves riddle of Buckton Moor July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A mysterious monument standing on a windswept Lancashire hilltop for nearly a thousand years has been identified as one of England’s most important castles – causing a sensation among archaeologists. | |
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