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Showing posts with label Anthropology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anthropology. Show all posts
Thursday, March 2, 2023

23,000-year-old human genome from southern Spain decoded

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Human tooth recovered Cueva de Malalmuerzo Photo Credit: Pedro Cantalejo A new study reports on genomic data from a 23,000-year-old individu...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

New Study Shows Archery Appeared in Europe Thousands of Years Earlier than Previously Thought

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Laure Metz making experimental bow and arrow shots with arrows armed with Neronian light points.  Photo Credit: Ludovic Slimak The use of bo...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Early humans: Annual cycles in tooth enamel provide insights into life histories

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Jülide Kubat and Wolfgang Müller load the LA-ICPMS with a thin section of tooth for analysis. Photo Credit: Jülide Kubat An interdisciplinar...
Friday, January 6, 2023

New study suggests Mayas utilized market-based economics

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Obsidian collections from the site of Q'umarkaj and the surrounding region. Photo Credit: Rachel Horowitz More than 500 years ago in the...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Early humans may have first walked upright in the trees

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Photo Credit: Alexa Human bipedalism – walking upright on two legs – may have evolved in trees, and not on the ground as previously thought,...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Jawbone may represent earliest presence of humans in Europe

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For over a century, one of the earliest human fossils ever discovered in Spain has been long considered a Neandertal. However, new analysis ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Genes and Languages

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Schematic illustration of possible scenarios of matches and mismatches in the transmission of genes and languages. Genetic (demographic) his...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Study provides first snapshot of global experiences with water insecurity

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A new study by Northwestern anthropologists reveals the life-altering problems with water that have long gone hidden.  Photo Credit: Charles...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

How Prehistoric Humans Simplified the World’s Food Webs

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Illustration depicting all mammal species that would inhabit Southern California today if not for human-linked extinction. Extinct species a...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Study of Ancient Skulls Sheds Light on Human Interbreeding With Neandertals

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Homo neanderthalensis adult male. Reconstruction based on Shanidar 1 by John Gurche for the Human Origins Program, NMNH. Photo Credit: Chip ...
Friday, July 29, 2022

The brains of Neanderthals developed differently from those of modern humans

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Fewer chromosome segregation errors in modern human than Neanderthal neural stem cells. Left side: microscopy image of the chromosomes (in c...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

1.700-year-old Korean genomes show genetic heterogeneity in Three Kingdoms period Gaya

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Facial reconstruction of four Ancient Korean individuals based on Ancient DNA data Full Size Original Credit: Current Biology An internation...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Great white sharks may have contributed to megalodon extinction

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Tooth size comparison between the extinct Early Pliocene Otodus megalodon tooth and a modern great white shark.  Credit: MPI for Evolutionar...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Researchers aim X-rays at century-old plant secretions for insight into Aboriginal Australian cultural heritage

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Century-old plants exudate samples in amber jars. Researchers mapped the chemistry of these samples using high-energy photons. Scientists ca...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Tooth unlocks mystery of Denisovans in Asia

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Views of the TNH2-1 specimen Credit: Flinders University What links a finger bone and some fossil teeth found in a cave in the remote Altai ...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Ancient grains

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Laura Motta, University of Michigan paleoethnobotanist, shows peas excavated from the Karanis site in Egypt. Image credit: Eric Bronson, Mic...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

The genetic origins of the world's first farmers clarified

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Ancient DNA extraction in Mainz’s lab. Work done in sterile conditions to avoid contamination from modern DNA. Credit: Joachim Burger / JGU ...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Researchers unravel mummy bird mystery

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Carol Anne Barsody scans the mummy bird for a 3D model that will be included in a multisensory exhibition she is planning to hold in October...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Study ties present-day Native American tribe to ancestors in San Francisco Bay Area

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U. of I. anthropology professor Ripan Malhi and his colleagues found genomic evidence linking present-day members of the Muwekma Ohlone Trib...