Sunday, November 28, 2010

Antarctic ice reveals trapped secrets of climate change

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Cores drilled from the icecap are going on show at London's Science Museum. The centuries-old information they contain could help scient...

Britain's Oldest Brain

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The oldest surviving human brain in Britain, dating back at least 2000 years to the Iron Age, was unearthed during excavations on the site o...

A prehistoric star map carved on a Welsh capstone?

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A recent excavation programme at a standing stone known as Trefael, near Newport (south-west Wales) has revealed that what originally was a ...

Face it, guys: We’re cubs compared with our forebears

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I’m afraid there’s more bad news, boys. A new book on men is out, and — guess what? — it isn’t flattering to our gender. That’s hardly surpr...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

'Ancient farm' found at site of new Forth Crossing

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Archaeologists believe they may have unearthed the remains of a Neolithic farm on the site where the new Forth road bridge is to be built. T...

Archaeologists bridge the gap between old and new

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe they may have unearthed the remains of a neolithic farm on the site where the new Forth bridge is to be built. The ra...

Exeter university student sparks new Stonehenge theory

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A REVOLUTIONARY new idea on the movement of big monument stones like those at Stonehenge has been put forward by an archaeology student at t...

Researchers Kick-Start Ancient DNA

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Binghamton University researchers recently revived ancient bacteria trapped for thousands of years in water droplets embedded in salt crysta...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Stone age skull found in Orkney

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AN ALMOST intact human skull which may date back 5,000 years has been exhumed from a tomb in South Ronaldsay in Orkney. The burial chamber c...

Modern man outlived Neanderthals due to 'live slow and grow old' strategy

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Modern man developed a better brain than Neanderthals because of our "live slow and grow old" strategy, a study claimed. Humans be...

Synchrotron reveals human children outpaced Neanderthals by slowing down

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Human childhood is considerably longer than chimpanzees, our closest-living ape relatives. A multinational team of specialists, led by resea...

Neandertal Children Developed on the Fast Track

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Parents who think their kids are growing up too fast should be glad they're not Neandertals. A new study of the fossilized teeth of eigh...

Flint tools found in 5,500-year-old tomb

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered flint tools while excavating a portal tomb dating back 5,500 years in Co Londonderry. Cormac McSparron, from t...

Prehistoric Ilkley Moor carvings to be preserved in 3D

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Prehistoric carvings on Ilkley Moor are to be preserved with help from the latest technology so future generations will be able to enjoy and...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Ancient DNA Reveals Origins Of First European Farmers

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A team of international researchers led by ancient DNA experts from the University of Adelaide has helped resolve the longstanding issue of ...

Early Cities Spurred Evolution of Immune System?

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"Amazing" DNA results show benefits of ancient urbanization, study says. As in cities today, the earliest towns helped expose thei...

The brains of Neanderthals and modern humans developed differently

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Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany have documented species differences in the pattern ...

Ancient DNA from European Early Neolithic Farmers Reveals Their Near Eastern Affinities

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In Europe, the Neolithic transition (8,000–4,000 B.C.) from hunting and gathering to agricultural communities was one of the most important ...

Fertile Crescent farmers took DNA to Germany

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DNA evidence suggests that immigrants from the Ancient Near East brought farming to Europe, and spread the practice to the region's hunt...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Babies' brains 'resemble those of Neanderthals'

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New-born humans' brains are about the same size and of similar appearance to those of Neanderthals, but alter in the first year of life,...