Mystery Of The Boxgrove Humans – Fossils In The UK Reveal How Ancient Europeans Were Connected Piecing together the story of human evolution is an undeniably complex task. However, new research has brought us closer to understanding how early humans in Britain may have been related to other European populations over 400,000 years ago. In … Read more
Genetic analysis of Neolithic people from Mesopotamia shows blend of demographics A consortium of academic researchers from different universities in Turkey, together with another colleague from Austria and two from Sweden, discovered evidence of a mix of demography in Neolithic folks residing in Mesopotamia’s Upper Tigris region using a DNA study. The group outlines how … Read more
Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb A seven-word inscription discovered by accident on a 3,700-year-old lice comb is the oldest known sentence written in an alphabet, according to a new study. The inscription written on the ivory comb is in Canaanite, the earliest alphabet, and the source of … Read more
Fish fossils show first cooking may have been 600,000 years earlier than previously thought Early human ancestors living 780,000 years ago liked their fish well done, Israeli researchers have revealed, in what they said was the earliest evidence of fire being used to cook. Exactly when our ancestors started cooking has been a matter of … Read more
Humans may have started tending animals almost 13,000 years ago Clues within ancient animal poop challenge the current prevailing theory that humans tamed plants before beasts. Researchers found the preserved dung in question alongside buried remains of ancient hunter-gatherer dwellings in Syria that date back to around 13,000 years ago. “We were surprised when we … Read more
Scan of Fossilized Skull Reveals Hunter-Gatherer’s Hearing Loss Hunter-gatherer died “ a few months after the onset of the pathology” Around 100,000 years ago somewhere in Morocco a hunter-gatherer started stumbling about suffering vertigo and hearing loss. Now, almost 50 years since parts of his skeleton were found as fossils, scientists in Coimbra University have … Read more
Fossil Tooth Analysis Sheds More Light On Earliest Humans From Southern Africa Fossil tooth analysis by Southern Cross University geochemist Dr. Renaud Joannes-Boyau has played a central role in an international collaboration that has properly identified the earliest humans. The new study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrates that among … Read more
Ancient fortress found by archaeologists may be a lost royal city The mountain fortress of Rabana-Merquly in modern Iraqi Kurdistan was one of the major regional centers of the Parthian Empire, which extended over parts of Iran and Mesopotamia approximately 2,000 years ago. This is a conclusion reached by a team of archaeologists led by … Read more
Drought Triggered Civil Conflict Among The Ancient Maya – Study Researchers have peered back through 800 years of history to conclude that Mayapan – the capital of culture and politics for the Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula in the 13th and 14th century CE – may well have been undone by drought. That drought would have … Read more
Ancient DNA adds to evidence for Native Americans’ east Asian ancestry For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published July 14 in the journal Current Biology, suggests that the mysterious hominin belonged to an extinct maternal branch of modern humans that … Read more