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Archaeologists find earliest known domestic horses

Archaeologists find earliest known domestic horses

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest known evidence of horses being domesticated by humans. The discovery suggests that horses were both ridden and milked. The ...





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Archaeologist Uncovers Evidence of Ancient Chemical Warfare

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher from the University of Leicester has identified what looks to be the oldest archaeological evidence for chemical warfare--from Roman times.


Innovative archaeological survey reveals unknown aspects of China's past

Innovative archaeological survey reveals unknown aspects of China's past

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 03, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Imagine future archaeologists trying to understand Illinois, California or New York based on a few excavations in each of those states. They might excavate small areas in city centers, since those sites would ...


New technology for dating ancient rock paintings

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new dating method finally is allowing archaeologists to incorporate rock paintings — some of the most mysterious and personalized remnants of ancient cultures — into the tapestry of evidence used to study life in prehistoric ...


New 'molecular clock' aids dating of human migration history

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Leeds have devised a more accurate method of dating ancient human migration - even when no corroborating archaeological evidence exists.


Race to preserve the world's oldest submerged town

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- The oldest submerged town in the world is about to give up its secrets — with the help of equipment that could revolutionise underwater archaeology.


Bronze age necklace unearthed

Bronze age necklace unearthed

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created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 4,000-year-old amber necklace has been discovered at a dig organised by a team of archeologists in Manchester.


Prehistoric tools discovered at Isles of Shoals

Prehistoric tools discovered at Isles of Shoals

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created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Summer students in Cornell's new Archaeology Field School at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Cornell's marine field station, have discovered the first prehistoric archaeological site in the Isles ...


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Which way 'out of Africa'? New evidence provides an alternative route 'out of Africa' for early humans

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 14, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (29) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The widely held belief that the Nile valley was the most likely route out of sub-Saharan Africa for early modern humans 120,000 year ago is challenged in a paper published this week in the ...


Biblical diet 'unhealthy'

Biblical diet 'unhealthy'

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6

A new study into the diet of ancient Israel has revealed that far from being 'the land of milk and honey', its inhabitants suffered from the lack of a balanced diet.


Chinese culture at the crossroads

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 5

Recent archaeological discoveries from far-flung corners of China are forcing scientists to reconsider the origins of ancient Chinese civilization - and a new crop of young archaeologists are delving into the modern nation's ...



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