Wednesday, March 31, 2010

New Written Language of Ancient Scotland Discovered

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Once thought to be rock art, carved depictions of soldiers, horses and other figures are in fact part of a written language dating back to t...

New Type of Human Discovered via Single Pinky Finger

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A new type of prehistoric human has been discovered via DNA from a child's pinky finger found in a central Asian cave, a new study says....
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Neanderthal may not be the oldest Dutchman

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People may well have been roaming the land we now call the Netherlands for far longer than was assumed until recently. There is evidence to ...
Friday, March 26, 2010

A New Human Relative from the Siberian Mountains

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Have scientists identified a "homo incognitus" -- a previously unknown human species? Finger bones dating from 30,000 years ago we...

Religious beliefs are the basis of the origins of Palaeolithic art

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This statement isn't new, but for years anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of art understood these artistic manifestations a...

DNA identifies new ancient human dubbed 'X-woman'

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Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of ancient human through analysis of DNA from a finger bone unearthed in a Siberian cav...

Dig for Bronze Age King's Ditch in Herefordshire

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Archaeologists have begun excavating a site in Herefordshire, which they believe may reveal a 3,000-year-old earth trench called the King...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Fingerbone points to a new type of human who fell off the family tree 30,000 years ago

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A new species of ancient human that lived side by side with Homo sapiens and Neanderthals as recently as 30,000 years ago has been discovere...

Fossil may be evidence of unknown hominid

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A fossilised finger found in a Siberian cave contains mitochondrial DNA that may come from a previously unknown human ancestor. Research pub...

Ancient DNA suggests new hominid line

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Genetic data unveil a shadowy, previously unknown Stone Age ancestor A new member of the human evolutionary family has been proposed for the...

Did Climate Change Drive Human Evolution?

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There's a plan afoot among evolutionary scientists to launch a big new project — to look back in time and find out how climate change ov...

Ancient 'X-Woman' discovered as man's early ancestors are pictured together for the first time

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A mysterious species of ancient human has been discovered in a cave in southern Siberia. Nicknamed X-Woman, scientists say the human lived a...

Scientists reveal discovery of fourth human species

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A fourth type of hominid, besides Neanderthals, modern humans and the "hobbit", was living as recently as 40,000 years ago, accord...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Farming's rise cultivated fair deals

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Blanche DuBois, Tennessee Williams’ wide-eyed protagonist who relied on “the kindness of strangers,” had nothing on ancient farmers. In rapi...

Stone Age could complicate N.Sea wind farm plans

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Energy firms taking part in a North Sea boom for offshore wind farms will have to watch out for remains of Stone Age villages submerged for ...

New method could revolutionize dating of ancient treasures

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Scientists today described development of a new method to determine the age of ancient mummies, old artwork, and other relics without causin...

23,000 year old stone wall found at entrance to cave in Greece

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The oldest stone wall in Greece, which has stood at the entrance of a cave in Thessaly for the last 23,000 years, has been discovered by pal...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Human ancestors walked comfortably upright 3.6 million years ago, new footprint study says

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A comparison of ancient and contemporary footprints reveals that our ancestors were strolling much like we do some 3.6 million years ago, a ...
Friday, March 19, 2010

How discovery off the Norfolk coast holds the key to Norway's past

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It is just eight inches long, but its discovery changed what we know about prehistoric Europe and our ancestors. The harpoon, which was foun...

"Hobbits" Had Million-Year History on Island?

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Newfound stone tools suggest the evolutionary history of the "hobbits" on the Indonesian island of Flores stretches back a million...