Spanish conquest left its imprint on men’s genes in Panama
A new genetic study of 408 Panamanian men has revealed that only 22 percent of them carry Y-chromosomes of native origin.
Most complete Bronze Age wheel to date found
Archaeologists working at Must Farm, a Bronze Age site near Peterborough, have uncovered a 3,000-year-old wheel, the first and largest complete example ever to be discovered in Britain.
Fossil analysis pushes back human split from other primates by two million years
C. abyssinicus revealed answers about gorilla lineage but also provided fossil evidence that our common ancestor migrated from Africa.
Researchers trace peanut crop back to its Bolivian roots
Researchers have discovered that a wild plant from Bolivia is a "living relic" of the prehistoric origins of the cultivated peanut species.
Japanese earthenware time capsules contain 4,300-year-old cockroach egg case impressions
Impressions of cockroach egg cases from 4,300 year old Japanese potsherds (broken pottery fragments) have been found in southern Japan.
The world’s oldest woven garment
The Tarkhan Dress, a V-neck linen shirt currently on display in the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, has been confirmed as the world’s oldest woven garment with radiocarbon testing dating the garment to the late fourth-millennium BC.
Vertical burial found in Germany
Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered the remains of a man buried in an upright position at a Mesolithic Era site.
The race to save threatened cultural heritage sites
With sites that are threatened but still intact, like Petra, cyber-archaeology can contribute to ongoing conservation and research goals, and virtually reconstruct ruins to give visitors a glimpse of how they might have looked in the past.
Prehistoric village links old and new stone ages
Archaeologists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem revealed in Israel a prehistoric village, dated around 12,000 years ago, in excavations in the fertile Jordan Valley.
How hunter-gatherers preserved their food sources
Prey-switching behavior helped stabilize an ecosystem.
A gold mount found in Norfolk puzzles archaeologists
A part of a gold artefact, probably a mount of Early Medieval origin, was found in Norfolk field. The item, a fragment of a larger piece, could have been part of a sword grip.
Remains of fifth millennium BCE settlement found in Jerusalem
Archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority have revealed a 7,000-year-old settlement during construction works of a new road in the Shuʻfat neighborhood in northern Jerusalem.
Neanderthals mated with modern humans much earlier than previously thought
First genetic evidence of a scenario in which early modern humans left the African continent and mixed with archaic (now-extinct) members of the human family prior to the migration “out of Africa”.
Atheism is as natural to humans as religion, ancient history suggests
People in the ancient world did not always believe in the gods, a new study suggests – casting doubt on the idea that religious belief is a “default setting” for humans.
Bronze Age human remains come under scrutiny by archaeologist
The remains of a young woman who died more than 3,700 years ago, found in 1987, should be examined with new technologies, archaeologist Maya Hoole claims.
Recreating the Throne of Egyptian Queen Hetepheres
An interdisciplinary collaboration at Harvard University has created a full-scale reproduction of an ancient throne belonging to Queen Hetepheres.
Eternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
Second Clovis people kill site found in New Mexico
It began with a man walking along a shallow wash near Abiquiu, New Mexico one afternoon and noticing some flakes of what looked like bone.
Rooting the family tree of placental mammals
The roots of the mammalian family tree have long been shrouded in mystery – when did the placental mammals go their separate ways?
Detective scientists discover ancient clues in mummy portraits
For example, scientists found that the iron-earth pigments most likely came from Keos in Greece, the red lead from Spain and the wood substrate on which the portraits are painted came from central Europe.
Ancient flowering plant was beautiful, but probably poisonous
Researchers announced in the journal Nature Plants the discovery of the first-ever fossil specimens of an "asterid" — a family of flowering plants that gave us everything from the potato to tomatoes, tobacco, petunias and our morning cup of coffee.
Save the archaeological heritage of Italy!
The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage is undertaking a radical reform of the legal system which protects the archeological monuments. Italian archaeologists invite the Ministry to withdraw the proposed decree.
From washing machines to computers…
Many inventions that we typically think of as modern actually have precedents dating back over 1000 years.
Mycenaean Aigion: The puzzle of rescue excavations in a modern city
Dr Papazoglou-Manioudaki's paper about the Mycenaean Aigion will be presented at the 4th meeting of the Mycenaean Seminar, on Thursday, February 25, 2016.