700-year-old West African soil technique could help mitigate climate change
Ancient farming practice could be the answer to offsetting CO2 emissions and preventing food shortages.
MORE THAN 700 ARCHAEOLOGISTS URGE OBAMA TO PROTECT BEARS EARS CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
110th Anniversary of the Antiquities Act Provides Reminder: Work of Protecting Antiquities is Not Finished
Discovering Our Ingenious Early Human Ancestors
A globe-trotting archaeologist helps unearth clues to what made our prehistoric ancestors the ultimate survivors.
Ancient DNA analysis explains spread of domestic goats from Fertile Crescent into Caucasus
Study confirms introduction of domesticated goats in the Southern Caucasus from the Fertile Crescent region about 7,500 - 8,000 years ago.
New fossils shed light on the origin of ‘hobbits’
Researchers find ancestors of ancestors.
Fossil teeth suggest prehistoric red deer in the Adriatic migrated seasonally
Paleolithic hunter-gatherers depended on this prey, may have left caves to follow them.
New research counters claim that the ‘Hobbit’ had Down syndrome
Status confirmed as a fossil human species.
Yale researchers map 6,000 years of urban settlements
Research group maps spatially explicit dataset of urban centers from 3700 BC to 2000 CE.
Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitants
Conflicting theories of Mungo Man debunked.
Lucy had neighbors: A review of African fossils
Review confirms co-existence of multiple early human species during middle Pliocene.
‘Pristine’ landscapes haven’t existed for thousands of years due to human activity
An exhaustive review of archaeological data from the last 30 years provides details of how the world's landscapes have been shaped by repeated human activity over many thousands of...
New support for human evolution in grasslands
A 24-million-year record of African plants plumbs the deep past.
Ice age bison fossils shed light on early human migrations in North America
Study dates the first movements of bison through an ice-free corridor that opened between the ice sheets after the last glacial maximum.
