Were Neanderthals really as well adapted to a life in the cold as previously assumed, or did they prefer more temperate environmental conditions during the last Ice Age?
To answer these questions, it is worthwhile to examine Neanderthal sites on…
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Ancient oak trees to shed light on the climate of the past 4500 years
Researchers will soon be able to reconstruct the climate of north-west Europe including the UK over the last 4500 years, and to date wooden buildings and objects more accurately, by analysing the chemistry of ancient oak trees, through a new…
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Marine mollusc shells reveal how prehistoric humans adapted to intense climate change
Current global climatic warming is having, and will continue to have, widespread consequences for human history, in the same way that environmental fluctuations had significant consequences for human populations in the past.
The so-called ‘8.2…
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Peasants held large barbecues for Anglo-Saxon Royalty
New study suggests that Anglo-Saxon Kings lived mainly on a vegetarian diet, but would often be treated to large barbecues by the peasants they ruled.
This is based on a large isotopic analysis and a bioarchaeological study of over 2,000 skeletons…
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The Power of Narrative – Nautilus
What future do we face? What future do we want? What must we do to get there?
These three questions preoccupy us all. We can’t predict the future. However, we can imagine it and even design it; no outcome is predetermined…
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Why did the Vikings abandon Greenland?
A study led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and published recently in Science Advances, upends the previously accepted theory on why the Vikings abandoned Greenland.
Greenland, or Grœnland in Old Norse, was settled by Norwegian and…
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Researchers open lunar time capsule from Apollo 17 mission
Scientists from NASA have opened a lunar time capsule from the Apollo 17 mission conducted in 1972.
The Apollo mission was the final mission of NASA’s Apollo program, in which Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt…
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Scientists solve solar secret
The further we move away from a heat source, the cooler the air gets. Bizarrely, the same can’t be said for the Sun, but University of Otago scientists may have just explained a key part of why.
Study lead Dr Jonathan Squire, of the Department…
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Researchers reveal the burial rituals of the “oldest city in the world”
An international team of researchers have provided new insight into the burial rituals of Çatalhöyük, considered the “oldest city in the world”.
Çatalhöyük is an ancient proto city from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, located on…
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Well-preserved fossils could be consequence of past global climate change
Climate change can affect life on Earth. According to new research, it can also affect the dead.
A study of exceptionally preserved fossils led by a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin has found that rising global temperatures…
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