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…
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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…
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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…
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First pregnant Ancient Egyptian mummy revealed by study
The first known case of a pregnant Ancient Egyptian mummy has been revealed by researchers from the Warsaw Mummy Project.
The mummy, which is housed in the National Museum in Warsaw was previously thought to be the remains of the priest…
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Climate crises in Mesopotamia prompted the first stable forms of State
During the Bronze Age, Mesopotamia was witness to several climate crises. In the long run, these crises prompted the development of stable forms of State and therefore elicited cooperation between political elites and non-elites.
This is the main…
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New research uncovers continental crust emerged 500 million years earlier than thought
The first emergence and persistence of continental crust on Earth during the Archaean (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago) has important implications for plate tectonics, ocean chemistry, and biological evolution, and it happened about half a…
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New results about the diets of people who lived on the Great Hungarian Plain
The lifestyle and eating habits of human groups that have lived for thousands of years can be examined by tooth.
An international research group analyzed the prehistoric findings of the Neolithic Age. In addition to providing knowledge about the…
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Human land use wasn’t always at nature’s expense
Nearly three-quarters of Earth’s land had been transformed by humans by 10,000 BC, but new research shows it largely wasn’t at the expense of the natural world.
A study involving University of Queensland researchers combined global maps of…
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Poop Core Records 4,300 Years of Bat Diet And Environment
Deep in a Jamaican cave is a treasure trove of bat poop, deposited in sequential layers by generations of bats over 4,300 years.
Analogous to records of the past found in layers of lake mud and Antarctic ice, the guano pile is roughly the height…
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Microbe Discovered in Evolutionary Stasis for Millions of Years
It’s like something out of science fiction. Research led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has revealed that a group of microbes, which feed off chemical reactions triggered by radioactivity, have been at an evolutionary standstill for…
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