Pages

▼
Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Palms at the Poles: Fossil Plants Reveal Lush Southern Hemisphere Forests in Ancient Hothouse Climate

›
For decades, paleobotanist David Greenwood has collected fossil plants from Australia – some so well preserved it’s hard to believe they’re ...
Friday, May 27, 2022

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

›
Century-old plants exudate samples in amber jars. Researchers mapped the chemistry of these samples using high-energy photons. Scientists ca...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Newly discovered ancient Amazonian cities reveal how urban landscapes were built without harming nature

›
Lidar image of the large settlement site Cotoca with cross sections A–B and C–D. m.a.s.l., meters above sea level. Credit: University of Exe...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

How seascapes of the ancient world shaped genetic structure of European populations

›
Reconstructed view of the burial caves of the Xaghra Circle (Libby Mulqueeney after an original by Caroline Malone). Source Malone et al.200...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Research Confirms Eastern Wyoming Paleoindian Site as Americas’ Oldest Mine

›
UW Ph.D. student Chase Mahan inspects an artifact from excavation at the Powars II archaeological site in 2020. Mahan is one of the co-autho...

Tooth unlocks mystery of Denisovans in Asia

›
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

›
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

›
Ancient DNA extraction in Mainz’s lab. Work done in sterile conditions to avoid contamination from modern DNA. Credit: Joachim Burger / JGU ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Ancient hand grenades: explosive weapons in medieval Jerusalem during Crusades

›
A fragment of the sphero-conical vessel that was identified as containing a possibly explosive material from Jerusalem. Credit: Robert Mason...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Preserving the past

›
Christina Chavez is Sandia National Laboratories’ first full-time archaeologist. She established the Labs’ cultural resources program within...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

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

›
U. of I. anthropology professor Ripan Malhi and his colleagues found genomic evidence linking present-day members of the Muwekma Ohlone Trib...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

First Modern Humans Arrived in Europe Earlier Than Previously Known

›
Close-up of the Grotte Mandrin in southern France where scientists have uncovered layers of history that include both modern human and Neand...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Climate drove 7,000 years of dietary changes

›
A mid-elevation landscape in the Central Andes. Credit: Kurt Wilson What a person eats influences a person’s health, longevity and experienc...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Climate change in the Early Holocene - archaeology report

›
New insight into how our early ancestors dealt with major shifts in climate is revealed in research by an international team, led by Profess...
Monday, January 17, 2022

Making the invisible visible: tracing the origins of plants in West African cuisine

›
Excavated Nok vessels are cleaned and photographed at the Janjala research station, shown in the picture: Dr Gabriele Franke, Goethe Univers...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Researchers find low oxygen and sulfide in the oceans played greater role in ancient mass extinction

›
Seth Young’s research group collecting and describing limestone samples from a field site in the Roberts Mountains, Nevada. Credit: Anders L...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Europe’s Earliest Female Infant Burial Reveals a Mesolithic Society that Honored Its Youngest Members

›
Photo Credit: TK Working in a cave in Liguria, Italy, an international team of researchers uncovered the oldest documented burial of an infa...