Evidence From Dirty Teeth: Ancient Peruvians Ate Well
Starch grains preserved on
human teeth reveal that
ancient Peruvians ate a
variety of cultivated crops
including squash, beans,
peanuts and pacay. Starch
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Humanity May Hold Key For Next Earth Evolution
Human degradation of the
environment has the
potential to stall an
ongoing process of planetary
evolution, and even rewind
the evolutionary clock to
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Jurassic Turtles Could Swim
Around 164 million years ago
the earliest aquatic turtles
lived in lakes and lagoons
on the Isle of Skye,
Scotland, according to new
research. ... > full story
Darwin Was Right About How Evolution Can Affect Whole Group
Worker ants of the world,
unite! You have nothing to
lose but your fertility. The
highly specialized worker
castes in ants represent the
pinnacle of social
... > full story
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Researcher Sheds New Light On Witch-hunting And Epidemics Of Fear
November 27, 2008 Research by the Russian semiologist Yuri M. Lotman analyzes how epidemics of fear work, through the study of witch-hunting processes which claimed thousands of victims among Catholics and ... > full story -
Archeology Of Homelessness
November 26, 2008 No matter what you see in the movies, archaeology isn't really about finding ancient temples or golden idols. It's about the day-to-day "stuff" -- the material culture—of people's lives. It ... > full story -
Using Water To Understand Human Society –- From The Industrial Revolution To Global Trade
November 25, 2008 Water shapes societies, but it is a factor only just beginning to be appreciated by social scientists. Water, according to a Norwegian professor, is a unique natural resource for two reasons. First, ... > full story -
Floppy-footed Gibbons Help Us Understand How Early Humans May Have Walked
November 19, 2008 Early humans roamed the plains long before we evolved our modern inflexible feet. So how did they walk on floppy feet? New research shows how a close relative, the gibbon, manages perfectly well ... > full story -
Funerary Monument Reveals Iron Age Belief That The Soul Lived In The Stone
November 19, 2008 Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from the ... > full story -
World's Earliest Nuclear Family Found
November 18, 2008 The earliest evidence of a nuclear family, dating back to the Stone Age, has been uncovered by an international team of ... > full story -
Pelvis Dated To 1.2 Million Years Ago Shows Ancestors May Have Been Born With Big Heads
November 14, 2008 Discovery of the most intact female pelvis of Homo erectus may cause scientists to reevaluate how early humans evolved to successfully birth larger-brained babies. A reconstruction of the 1.2 ... > full story -
Small Islands Given Short Shrift In Assembling Archaeological Record
November 14, 2008 Small islands dwarf large ones in archaeological importance, says a University of Florida researcher, who found that people who settled the Caribbean before Christopher Columbus preferred more minute ... > full story -
Southern Wall Of Jerusalem That Dates To Time Of Hasmonean Dynasty Discovered On Mount Zion
November 11, 2008 An exciting discovery in Jerusalem constituting extraordinary remains of the wall of the city from the time of the Second Temple (second century BCE-70 CE) that was built by the Hasmonean kings and ... > full story -
Gold Earring 2,000 Years Old Discovered In Excavations In Jerusalem
November 11, 2008 A 2,000 year old gold earring inlaid with pearls and precious stones was discovered in excavations that the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting in the Giv'ati car park at the City of David, in ... > full story
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