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Rethinking the social structure of ancient Eurasian nomads: Current Anthropology research
Prehistoric Eurasian nomads are commonly perceived as horse riding bandits who utilized their mobility and military skill to antagonize ancient civilizations such as the Chinese, Persians, and Greeks. View More (2012-02-27)
Team hopes to use new technology to search for ETs
A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy. View More (2008-06-05)
Researchers unlock ancient Maya secrets with modern soil science
After emerging sometime before 1000 BC, the Maya rose to become the most advanced Pre-Columbian society in the Americas, thriving in jungle cities of tens of thousands of people, such as the one in Guatemala's Tikal National Park. View More (2012-11-12)
Radiocarbon testing challenges understanding of ancient Hawaiian architecture, social complexity
The development of monumental architecture and social complexity on the Hawaiian island of Maui occurred over a span of at least 500 years, according to the most detailed study to date on the antiquity of the island's extensive temple system. View More (2006-08-02)
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)
Discovery of an ancient civilization in the west of the Amazon Basin
The western part of the Amazon basin is covered by tropical rainforest, severely eroded in places. The area is still largely unknown to archaeologists. It covers the lower eastern flanks of the Andean cordillera and extends from the piedmont down to the Amazon plain. It is in these twisting watershed areas that the River Amazon springs forth, loading itself with silts and other sediments. The... View More (2003-07-08)
Geologist Warms Up For Antarctic Expedition
It won't quite be a white Christmas for Professor Nick Petford, but the Kingston University geologist will see in the New Year in sub-zero temperatures. Professor Petford, from the Centre for Earth and Environmental Science Research, flies out to Antarctica on December 27 to investigate the ancient interiors of volcanoes. He has been selected as one of only 25 participants from around the world... View More (2004-12-15)
UC Research Explores Why Ancient Civilization Was 'Livin' on the Edge'
University of Cincinnati research is investigating why a highly sophisticated civilization decided to build large, bustling cities next to what is essentially swampland. View More (2011-03-29)
Scientists discover 'light echoes' of ancient supernovae
Astronomers have found "light echoes" from three ancient supernovae by detecting their faint, centuries-old light reflected in the clouds of interstellar dust. View More (2005-12-23)
Buried coins key to Roman population mystery?
University of Connecticut theoretical biologist Peter Turchin and Stanford University ancient historian Walter Scheidel recently developed a new method to estimate population trends in ancient Rome and waded into an intense, ongoing debate about whether the state's population increased or declined after the first century B.C. View More (2009-10-06)
Feces fossils lend new insights into connection between Native-Americans, diabetes
Why do Native Americans experience high rates of diabetes? A common theory is that they possess fat-hoarding "thrifty genes" left over from their ancestors - genes that were required for survival during ancient cycles of feast and famine, but that now contribute to the disease in a modern world of more fatty and sugary diets. View More (2012-07-24)
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. When a well was emptied of its contents of pumice stone from the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79, a... View More (2005-04-18)
U of T researchers shed light on ancient Assyrian tablets
A cache of cuneiform tablets unearthed by a team led by a University of Toronto archaeologist has been found to contain a largely intact Assyrian treaty from the early 7th century BCE. View More (2010-04-09)
Ancient Egyptian cosmetics: 'Magical' makeup may have been medicine for eye disease
There's more to the eye makeup that gave Queen Nefertiti and other ancient Egyptian royals those stupendous gazes and legendary beauty than meets the eye. View More (2010-01-12)
Scientists Discover the First Physical Evidence of Tobacco in a Mayan Container
A scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an anthropologist from the University at Albany teamed up to use ultra-modern chemical analysis technology at Rensselaer to analyze ancient Mayan pottery for proof of tobacco use in the ancient culture. View More (2012-01-12)
390-million-year-old scorpion fossil -- biggest bug known
The gigantic fossil claw of an 390 million-year-old sea scorpion, recently found in Germany, shows that ancient arthropods - spiders, insects, crabs and the like - were surprisingly larger than their modern-day counterparts. View More (2007-11-26)
University of Kansas researcher investigates mysterious stone spheres in Costa Rica
The ancient stone spheres of Costa Rica were made world-famous by the opening sequence of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," when a mockup of one of the mysterious relics nearly crushed Indiana Jones. View More (2010-03-23)
Space technology revolutionizes archaeology, understanding of Maya
A flyover of Belize's thick jungles has revolutionized archaeology worldwide and vividly illustrated the complex urban centers developed by one of the most-studied ancient civilizations -- the Maya. View More (2010-05-12)
Human settlements already existed in the Amazon Basin (Equador) 4000 years ago
An important discovery by IRD archaeologists in Equador reveals that, more than 4000 years ago, early Andean civilizations had become established in a tropical environment where they were not hitherto known to have existed. This finding pushes further back the presumed beginning of developed agricultural societies in the western Amazon Basin. It also prompt a rethink of the history of the... View More (2003-07-04)
Using modern sequencing techniques to study ancient modern humans
DNA that is left in the remains of long-dead plants, animals, or humans allows a direct look into the history of evolution. So far, studies of this kind on ancestral members of our own species have been hampered by scientists' inability to distinguish the ancient DNA from modern-day human DNA contamination. View More (2010-01-04)
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