Search results for archeological evidence
Studying hair of ancient Peruvians answers questions about stress
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent studies show that one in three Canadians suffer from stress and the number is on the rise. But stress isn't a new problem.
French introduced farming to Britain: study
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Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Simon Fraser University archeologists Mark Collard and Kevan Edinborough and colleagues from University College London have uncovered evidence that French farmers introduced agriculture to Britain some 60 ...
The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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Spanish researchers have studied the fossil record of hadrosaurs, the so-called 'duck-billed' dinosaurs, in the Iberian Peninsula for the purpose of determining that they were the last of their kind to inhabit ...
Mastodon Tusk May Be Largest Ever Uncovered In NYS
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Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research under way at the New York State Museum indicates that a huge mastodon tusk, recently excavated by Museum scientists in Orange County, may be the largest tusk ever found in New York State.
Two-million-year-old evidence shows tool-making hominins inhabited grassland environments
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Oct 21, 2009 |
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In an article published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE on October 21, 2009, Dr Thomas Plummer of Queens College at the City University of New York, Dr Richard Potts of the Smithsonian Institution Nation ...
The Fall of the Maya: 'They Did it to Themselves'
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Oct 07, 2009 |
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For 1200 years, the Maya dominated Central America. At their peak around 900 A.D., Maya cities teemed with more than 2,000 people per square mile -- comparable to modern Los Angeles County. Even in rural areas ...
Visualizing the Aztecs
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has visited the ancient ruins of great civilizations can appreciate the difficulty of visualizing the buildings at their peak. Today's visitor to the British Museum can see structures ...
Japanese help uncover ancient Peru remains
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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A joint Japanese-Peruvian archeological mission has uncovered the remains of a pre-Incan woman sacrificed more than 2,000 years ago in the Andean nation, experts told local media Wednesday.
Hand axes in Europe nearly a million years old: study
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Sep 02, 2009 |
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Early humans used two-sided stone axes in Europe up to 900,000 years ago, far earlier than previously thought, according to a study released Wednesday.
Study finds human population expanded during late Stone Age
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Genetic evidence is revealing that human populations began to expand in size in Africa during the Late Stone Age approximately 40,000 years ago. A research team led by Michael F. Hammer (Arizona Research Laboratory's Division ...
Australia discovered by the 'Southern Route'
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Genetic research indicates that Australian Aborigines initially arrived via south Asia. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have found telltale mutations in modern-day Indian populations that a ...
Archeological evidence of human activity found beneath Lake Huron
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Jun 08, 2009 |
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More than 100 feet deep in Lake Huron, on a wide stoney ridge that 9,000 years ago was a land bridge, University of Michigan researchers have found the first archeological evidence of human activity preserved beneath the ...
Voyages of discovery or necessity? Fish poisoning may be why Polynesians left paradise
May 18, 2009 |
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Fish poisoning, or ciguatera could be the reason that New Zealand, Easter Island and, possibly, Hawaii in the 11th to 15th centuries became colonized by masses of migrating Polynesians.
'Peking Man' older than thought; somehow adapted to cold
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Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new dating method has found that "Peking Man" is around 200,000 years older than previously thought, suggesting he somehow adapted to the cold of a mild glacial period.
Old soles: 800-year-old shoe soles yield clues about preservation of leather
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Ancient garbage can be like gold to archaeologists. During excavation of an 800-year-old trash dump in Lyon, France, scientists discovered the archaeological equivalent of golden shoe soles: A trove of leather soles of shoes, ...
