Posts Tagged ‘archaeology’

DNA reveals origins of Minoan civilization

U. WASHINGTON (US) — DNA from skeletal remains clears up competing theories about the origins of the earliest European civilization. Continue…

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Society & Culture - May 6, 2013 12:15 - 1 Comment

Did China’s agriculture sprout in Ice Age?

STANFORD (US) — The discovery of grinding stones pushes the origins of agriculture in China back 12,000 years, and suggests it evolved independently around the world. (more…)

Society & Culture - Apr 26, 2013 10:23 - 0 Comments

Maya marked start of ‘new form of society’

U. ARIZONA (US) — Scientists have uncovered evidence at a site in Guatemala that suggests the origins of the Maya civilization are more complex than previously thought. (more…)

Society & Culture - Mar 26, 2013 11:21 - 0 Comments

Pottery shards show ancient social networks

U. ARIZONA (US) — Thousands of ceramic and obsidian artifacts from A.D. 1200-1450 show the growth and collapse of long-distant relationships in the US Southwest. (more…)

Society & Culture - Mar 1, 2013 12:46 - 2 Comments

Tobacco traces found in millenium-old pipes

UC DAVIS (US) — Native American hunter-gatherers living in what is now northwestern California grew and smoked tobacco more than a thousand years ago, according to a new report. (more…)

Society & Culture - Dec 20, 2012 13:15 - 1 Comment

Crisis in Syria mirrors collapse 4,000 years ago

U. SHEFFIELD (UK) — Ancient tools found in Syria suggest parallels between the country’s current crisis and a period of urban decline, government collapse, and drought in the region during the Bronze Age. (more…)

Science & Technology - Nov 20, 2012 16:04 - 0 Comments

Spears with stone tips used 500,000 years ago

U. TORONTO (CAN) — Human ancestors used stone-tipped weapons for hunting 500,000 years ago, about 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. (more…)

Earth & Environment - Nov 8, 2012 17:54 - 1 Comment

Climate change withered Maya civilization

PENN STATE / UC DAVIS (US) — A high-resolution climate record spanning 2,000 years shows how Maya political systems developed and fell apart in response to climate change, researchers report. (more…)

Earth & Environment - Sep 20, 2012 6:46 - 0 Comments

Clovis-era impact: Did critics miss evidence?

U. OREGON (US) — A group challenging the theory of a North American meteor-impact event some 12,900 years ago may have missed supporting evidence because they didn’t follow three critical protocols. (more…)

Science & Technology - Aug 13, 2012 11:00 - 0 Comments

Domesticated turkey bones found in Maya temple

U. FLORIDA (US) — Bones from an ancient Mayan archaeological site show the turkey was domesticated more than 1,000 years earlier than previously believed. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jul 30, 2012 10:39 - 0 Comments

Lung infection was mummy maiden’s curse

STONY BROOK (US) — A 15-year-old Inca girl who lived 500 years ago had a lung infection at the time of her death, according to a new method of analyzing protein samples. (more…)

Society & Culture - Jul 5, 2012 15:01 - 0 Comments

Dig unearths 4th century biblical mosaic

UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US) — A monumental synagogue building dating to the Late Roman and Byzantine periods (c. 4th-6th centuries CE) has been discovered in archaeological excavations at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee. (more…)

Society & Culture - Jun 12, 2012 13:46 - 0 Comments

Artifacts show family at heart of race history

U. MARYLAND (US) — Archaeological evidence reveals how a Filipino and African American family thrived amid the racial tensions of early 20th century Annapolis, Maryland. (more…)

Science & Technology - May 7, 2012 10:12 - 0 Comments

Mastodons, humans were Florida neighbors

U. FLORIDA (US) — During the last ice age 13,000 years ago, modern humans in North America lived alongside large, now extinct mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, and giant sloths. (more…)

Society & Culture - Mar 30, 2012 14:13 - 2 Comments

Massive pyramid-era effigies found in Peru

U. MISSOURI (US) — Animal-shaped effigy mounds—some more than 4,000 years old—have been found rising above the coastal plains of Peru. (more…)

Science & Technology - Nov 15, 2011 10:55 - 1 Comment

Alaskan dig turns up ancient ‘buckle’

U. COLORADO-BOULDER (US) — A small prehistoric buckle-like object that likely originated in East Asia has been found in an ancient Eskimo dwelling in Alaska. (more…)

Science & Technology - Aug 16, 2011 14:40 - 0 Comments

Sunflower has all-American roots

INDIANA U. (US) — With its only geographic domestication site planted firmly in the eastern U.S., new research proves the sunflower is purely American. (more…)

Gatekeeper lion dates back 3,000 years

U. TORONTO (CAN) — Archaeologists have discovered a gate complex adorned with stone sculptures, including a magnificently carved lion that dates back to the end of the second millennium. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jun 30, 2011 9:18 - 0 Comments

Early and modern humans didn’t mingle

NYU (US) — New excavations in Indonesia show that Homo erectus disappeared from the area at least 143,000 years ago—and possibly as long as 550,000 years—long before modern humans arrived on the scene. (more…)

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