An international research team led by Professor Dr Frank Schäbitz has published a climate reconstruction of the last 200,000 years for Ethiopia.
This means that high-resolution data are now available for the period when early Homo sapiens, our…
Author: admin
-
Newly discovered African ‘climate seesaw’ drove human evolution
While it is widely accepted that climate change drove the evolution of our species in Africa, the exact character of that climate change and its impacts are not well understood.
Glacial-interglacial cycles strongly impact patterns of climate…
Continue Reading
-
A succession of violence rather than a prehistoric war
Since its discovery in the 1960s, the Jebel Sahaba cemetery in the Nile Valley of the Sudan was considered to be one of the oldest testimonies to prehistoric warfare.
However, scientists from the CNRS and the University of Toulouse have…
Continue Reading
-
Forensic archaeologists begin to recover Spanish Civil War missing bodies
Forensic archaeologists and anthropologists from Cranfield University have started to recover the bodies of victims executed by the Franco regime at the end of the Spanish Civil War during an excavation in the Ciudad Real region of Spain.
The team…
Continue Reading
-
Biodiversity devastation: Human-driven decline requires millions of years of recovery
A new study shows that the current rate of biodiversity decline in freshwater ecosystems outcompetes that at the end-Cretaceous extinction that killed the dinosaurs: damage now being done in decades to centuries may take millions of years to…
Continue Reading
-
The ‘Great Dying’
The Paleozoic era culminated 251.9 million years ago in the most severe mass extinction recorded in the geologic record.
Known as the “great dying,” this event saw the loss of up to 96% of all marine species and around 70% of terrestrial species,…
Continue Reading
-
Did Earth’s early rise in oxygen help multicellular life evolve?
Scientists have long thought that there was a direct connection between the rise in atmospheric oxygen, which started with the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago, and the rise of large, complex multicellular organisms.
That theory, the…
Continue Reading
-
New evidence of how and when the Milky Way came together
New research provides the best evidence to date into the timing of how our early Milky Way came together, including the merger with a key satellite galaxy.
Using relatively new methods in astronomy, the researchers were able to identify the most…
Continue Reading
-
Archaeologists teach computers to sort ancient pottery
Archaeologists at Northern Arizona University are hoping a new technology they helped pioneer will change the way scientists study the broken pieces left behind by ancient societies.
The team from NAU’s Department of Anthropology have succeeded…
Continue Reading
-
The oldest human burial in Africa
Despite being home to the earliest signs of modern human behaviour, early evidence of burials in Africa are scarce and often ambiguous.
Therefore, little is known about the origin and development of mortuary practices in the continent of our…
Continue Reading