Illustration of female hunter depicting hunters who may have appeared in the Andes 9,000 years ago. Credit: Matthew Verdolivo, UC Davis IET Academic Technology Services…
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A Photoshop-created image of how Kataigidodon venetus may have looked, illustrated by Ben Kligman, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geosciences and Hannah R.…
A global study of ancient dog DNA, led by scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, University of Oxford, University of Vienna and archaeologists from more…
An illustration of Brevicaudosaurus. Credit: Illustration by Tyler Stone BA ’19, art and cinema; https://tylerstoneart.wordpress.com About 240 million years ago, when reptiles ruled the ocean,…
Artist’s reconstruction of a savannah in Middle Pleistocene Southeast Asia. In the foreground Homo erectus, stegodon, hyenas, and Asian rhinos are depicted. Water buffalo can…
Aerial view showing the Southern Storage Complex (SSC), the Northern Storage Complex (NSC; blue dashed box) and the trench (red dashed lines). Credit: Eric Cline/GW…
An upper canine milk-tooth that belonged to a Neanderthal child, aged 11 or 12, that lived between 48,000 and 45,000 years ago. Credit: Journal of…
An artistic reconstruction of ‘Southern European’ Vikings emphasizing the foreign gene flow into Viking Age Scandinavia detected in the study. Credit: Jim Lyngvild In the…
Matthias Meyer at work in the clean laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Credit: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology Neanderthals have adopted male…
Artist’s reconstruction of mating ostracods. Credit: YANG Dinghu Small bivalved crustacean ostracods are the most abundant fossil arthropods since the Ordovician and play an important…
The proximity of hot springs to early settlements have led researchers to wonder if early humans used hot springs as a cooking resource long before…
Seven La Chamba unglazed ceramic pots used in a yearlong cooking experiment that analyzed the chemical residues of meals prepared. Credit: Melanie Miller Archaeologists find…
This figure shows the settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization during different phases of its evolution. RIT Assistant Professor Nishant Malik developed a mathematical method…
A new study led by the University of Bristol and Swansea University has revealed the size of the legendary giant shark Megalodon, including fins that…
New archaeological research in Saudi Arabia documents hundreds of stone structures interpreted as monumental sites where early pastoralists carried out rituals. Image shows character of…
The coiled remains of an Egyptian Cobra, undisturbed for thousands of years. Digitally dissected and revealed beneath the wrappings. Credit:Swansea University Analysis of three mummified…
Researchers link end of Green Sahara with Southeast Asia megadrought. Physical evidence found in caves in Laos helps tell a story about a connection between…
Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientists improved the technique for assessing the age of historical…
An illustration of Deinosuchus from the journal’s cover. Credit: Illustration by Tyler Stone BA ’19, art and cinema; see his website https://tylerstoneart.wordpress.com A new study,…
Stone box with carved shell llama and rolled gold foil. Credit: Teddy Sequin A llama carved from a spondylus shell and a cylindrical laminated gold…