Friday, April 30, 2010

Humans Interbred with Neanderthals, Study Suggests

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Humans today could be part Neanderthal, according to a new study that found our ancestors interbred with an extinct hominid species some mil...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Lice hang ancient date on first clothes

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For once lice are nice, at least for scientists investigating the origins of garments. Using DNA to trace the evolutionary split between hea...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Ancient Hereford ditch was 'royal city boundary'

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A Bronze Age earth ditch has been found in Hereford which archaeologists say may have been used to mark the city's old tax boundary. It ...

Nanostructure of 5,000-year-old mummy skin reveals insight into mummification process

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Using cutting-edge microscopy techniques, researchers have gained insight into how human mummies can be extremely well-preserved for thousan...

Stonehenge Down Under: Australians copy Neolithic rock structure to draw tourists

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A full-sized replica of Stonehenge will be built on a beach in western Australia after a small town gave the green light for construction in...

Ancient stones found in Devon

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Archaeologists revealed today what they believe is a "spectacular" monument hundreds of years older than Stonehenge on one of the ...

Religious Beliefs Seen as Basis of Origins of Palaeolithic Art

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The idea that palaeolithic art is based in religious beliefs isn't new. But for years, anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of...

Chinese Pigs 'Direct Descendants' of First Domesticated Breeds

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Modern-day Chinese pigs are directly descended from ancient pigs which were the first to be domesticated in the region 10,000 years ago, a n...
Monday, April 19, 2010

“X-Woman” coexisted with Neanderthals and modern humans 40,000 years ago

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Washington, March 25 (ANI): A new study has suggested that an unknown type of human, nicknamed “X-Woman,” coexisted with Neanderthals and ou...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Nine megalithic sites in England linked to death rituals

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Nine megalithic sites in a remote part of Dartmoor (England), share features in common with Stonehenge, and may shed light on the meaning be...

Social Networks for Archaeology

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The power and importance of social networks are growing all the time, not least in the field of archaeology. I thought that it would be usef...

Row of ancient stones found in Dartmoor ‘are older than Stonehenge’

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A row of ancient stones that mirrors the path of the sun like Stonehenge but is up to 1,000 years older has been unearthed on Dartmoor. The ...
Saturday, April 17, 2010

'Java Man' takes age to extremes

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New dating of Indonesian strata produces unexpected results New age estimates for Homo erectus fossils on the Indonesian island of Java have...
Friday, April 16, 2010

Supervolcano: How humanity survived its darkest hour

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THE first sign that something had gone terribly wrong was a deep rumbling roar. Hours later the choking ash arrived, falling like snow in a ...

Fury as Gormley pushes Tara for heritage honour

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CONSERVATIONISTS have hit out at Green Party leader John Gormley after his department included the Hill of Tara on a shortlist of seven site...

Do Dartmoor's ancient stones have link to Stonehenge?

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LITTERED across the hills of Dartmoor in Devon, southern England, around 80 rows and circles of stones stand sentinel in the wild landscape....
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Brain Parts Found in Ancient Human Ancestor

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Electromagnetic radiation revealed parts of the 1.9-million-year-old brain, as well as eggs of insects that fed on it. THE GIST: A remnant o...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Ancient Pre-Human Skeleton May Contain Shrunken Brain

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A shrunken brain may potentially lie inside the fossil skull of a newfound candidate for the immediate ancestor to the human lineage, resear...

New human species: Australopithecus sediba

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A boy and his father were out walking around north of Johannesburg, South Africa. Luckily, the father was a paleoanthropologist and he knew ...

Competition finds over a thousand prehistoric sites on Google Street View

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Following the recent expansion of Google Street View to most of the UK's roads, the Megalithic Portal has created a comprehensive map of...