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Early origins of maize in Mexico
The ancestors of maize originally grew wild in Mexico and were radically different from the plant that is now one of the most important crops in the world.   view more (2008-06-30)

Ancient Mexican maize varieties
Maize was first domesticated in the highlands of Mexico about 10,000 years ago and is now one of the most important crop plants in the world.   view more (2008-06-26)

Archaeologist Uses Satellite Imagery to Explore Ancient Mexico
Satellite imagery obtained from NASA will help archeologist Bill Middleton peer into the ancient Mexican past. In a novel archeological application, multi- and hyperspectral data will help build the most accurate and most detailed landscape map that exists of the southern state of Oaxaca, where the... view more (2008-05-14)

Russian-American research team examines origins of whaling culture
Recent findings by a Russian-American research team suggest that prehistoric cultures were hunting whales at least 3,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than was previously known.   view more (2008-04-07)

Vikings did not dress the way we thought
Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons, and glittering bits of mirrors - the Vikings dressed with considerably more panache than we previously thought. The men were especially vain, and the women dressed provocatively, but with the advent of Christianity, fashions changed, according to Swedish... view more (2008-02-26)

Humans inhabited New World's doorstep for 20,000 years
The human journey from Asia to the New World was interrupted by a 20,000-year layover in Beringia, a once-habitable region that today lies submerged under the icy waters of the Bering Strait.   view more (2008-02-13)

Did early Southwestern Indians ferment corn and make beer?
The belief among some archeologists that Europeans introduced alcohol to the Indians of the American Southwest may be faulty.   view more (2007-12-06)

Peruvian citadel is site of earliest ancient solar observatory in the Americas
Archeologists from Yale and the University of Leicester have identified an ancient solar observatory at Chankillo, Peru as the oldest in the Americas with alignments covering the entire solar year, according to an article in the March 2 issue of Science.   view more (2007-03-02)

Toward more effective paleolgenetic analysis
DNA preserved in bones undergoing fossilization deteriorates up to 50 times faster when stored in a museum than when the bones are buried in the ground.   view more (2007-01-18)

NIST's new advanced imaging facility peers inside hydrogen fuel cells
Thanks to a new and improved imaging instrument at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), scientists now can conduct detailed surveillance on the comings and goings of water inside hydrogen fuel cells-a piece of intelligence key to making the technology... view more (2006-08-21)

Ancient Etruscans unlikely ancestors of modern Tuscans, statistical testing reveals
For the first time, Stanford researchers have used novel statistical computer modeling to simulate demographic processes affecting the population of Tuscany over a 2,500-year time span. Rigorous tests used by the researchers have ruled out a genetic link between ancient Etruscans, the early... view more (2006-05-26)

New Planet Is Larger than Pluto
Claims that the Solar System has a tenth planet are bolstered by the finding by a group lead by Bonn astrophysicists that this alleged planet, announced last summer and tentatively named 2003 UB313, is bigger than Pluto.   view more (2006-02-02)

Newly Located Greek Temple to Be Discussed at AIA Annual Meeting
The discovery in Albania of a Greek temple dating back to the 6th century B.C. by researchers from UC's Classics Department will be publicly presented for the first time at the Archaeological Institute of America's annual meeting in early January.    view more (2006-01-09)

New analysis of pottery stirs Olmec trade controversy
Clearing - or perhaps roiling - the murky and often contentious waters of Mesoamerican archeology, a study of 3,000-year-old pottery provides new evidence that the Olmec may not have been the mother culture after all.   view more (2005-08-02)

Golden Tunic For Hetera
Specialists of Kharkov National University named after V. Kazarin have managed to disclose one of mysteries of antique beauties' attires. They investigated a rare finding - a fragment of antique goldwoven brocade discovered in the burial place of Roman times in the National Preserve of Tauric... view more (2005-05-13)

New Pompeii before Pompeii discovered
Swedish archeologists have found previously unknown prehistoric settlements under ancient Pompeii. The Swedish Pompeii Project, tied to Stockholm University and the Swedish Institute in Rome, has worked for five seasons in a section of Pompeii to study and document the relics of the ancient city.... view more (2005-04-18)

Shipworm threatens marine archeological remains in the Baltic
Shipworm has spread to the Baltic Sea. If it continues to spread, it threatens to destroy still well-preserved and irreplaceable shipwrecks and other marine archeological remains along the coast of Sweden, according to Carl Olof Cederlund, professor of marine archeology at Södertörn... view more (2004-11-24)

The First Domesticated Donkey Was Born in Africa
An international team of researchers, with the participation of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona professor, Jordi Jordana, has published in Science magazine the results of their investigation into the origins of the domesticated donkey. The authors have discovered by using genetic analysis... view more (2004-06-23)

Media Invitation: The 37th CIESM Congress Covering All Mediterranean Marine Sciences
YOU ARE INVITED to report on one of Europe's most important marine science conferences 37th CIESM Congress Forum Barcelona, Spain 7-11 June 2004 CIESM Congresses have been held regularly around the Mediterranean shores since 1919. This conference will bring together more than 700 marine scientists... view more (2004-03-31)

BETWEEN THE WOLF AND THE DOG
The dog was the first animal domesticated by human beings. However, domestication took more than one step: people and dogs used to adjust to each other within numerous generations of coexistence. Biochemical and genetic researches have proved quite definitely that the dog's ancestor was the big... view more (2003-04-25)

Discovery of vestiges of the first settlements in central and eastern Micronesia
Who were the first inhabitants of Micronesia? When did they settle there? Remains of such inhabitation are abundant enough in the western isles of Micronesia, but up to now that has not been the case for islands in the centre and in the east of the group. Archaeological excavations on the Ahnd and... view more (2000-11-17)
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