Posts Tagged ‘history’
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…
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:16 - 0 Comments
Society & Culture - May 8, 2013 15:25 - 24 Comments
Europeans are basically one big family
UC DAVIS (US) — Everyone with ancestors from the European continent are likely cousins who share the same family members from about a thousand years ago. (more…)
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 - Apr 9, 2013 14:06 - 5 Comments
Study: Give animals credit for shaping society
U. OREGON (US) — Animals don’t get their due for their role in sculpting human societies throughout history, argue sociologists. (more…)
Society & Culture - Apr 8, 2013 12:54 - 1 Comment
Gambling was a good bet in early baseball
TEXAS A&M (US) — Players, fans, and even umpires gambled on every aspect of early baseball games, and that’s how players made money, according to a new history of the sport. (more…)
Society & Culture - Apr 2, 2013 14:11 - 0 Comments
Words let software date Medieval writing
U. TORONTO (CAN) — Based on the appearance of popular words or phrases, new software can tell when medieval British documents were written. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 27, 2013 11:22 - 1 Comment
Texas Longhorns trace roots to Columbus voyage
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — Texas Longhorn cattle are direct descendants of the first cattle in the New World, which were brought over by Columbus in 1493, new research reveals. (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…)
Top Stories - Mar 22, 2013 6:22 - 6 Comments
Books contain fewer words about feelings
U. SHEFFIELD (UK) — Other than fear, words about emotions have steadily decreased in books throughout the last century, say researchers. (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…)
Earth & Environment - Mar 1, 2013 12:08 - 0 Comments
Plants and pollinators falling out of sync
WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — Using historical records about plants and pollinators, scientists have found that today’s pollination networks aren’t as robust as they were about 100 years ago. (more…)
Society & Culture - Feb 18, 2013 17:35 - 1 Comment
‘Time machine’ brings back ancestor languages
UC BERKELEY (US) — A new computer program can rapidly reconstruct “proto-languages”—the linguistic ancestors from which all modern languages have evolved. (more…)
Society & Culture - Feb 18, 2013 12:19 - 2 Comments
Can culture protect genetics from misuse?
WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — In the past, good science has been used for unethical purposes, like eugenics. The concept of culture can protect genetics from a similar fate, an anthropologist argues. (more…)
Top Stories - Jan 31, 2013 12:38 - 0 Comments
Ancient DNA opens Aztec ‘cold case’
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — DNA recovered from human remains suggests the Aztec conquest of Xaltocan had a significant genetic impact on the town. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 30, 2013 17:35 - 0 Comments
Archaic tribe built mound in under 90 days
WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — The speedy construction of an earthen mound challenges assumptions about the social structure of early American hunter-gatherers. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 28, 2013 11:37 - 0 Comments
Penicillin, not the pill, sparked sex revolution
EMORY (US) — Non-traditional, riskier sex lives didn’t start in the 1960s, according to an analysis that suggests a treatment for syphilis changed attitudes and behavior. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 17, 2013 16:05 - 0 Comments
Neolithic strainer hints at origin of cheese
PRINCETON (US) — Milk byproducts left in pieces of pottery suggest ancient Europeans, who were mostly lactose intolerant, knew how to separate cheese curds from whey. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 4, 2013 14:29 - 0 Comments
African-American Hoodoo: more than magic
RUTGERS (US) — The tradition of herbal healing known as Hoodoo is about more than using hex-breaking oils and candles to ward off bad vibes, according to a new book by scholar Katrina Hazzard-Donald. (more…)
