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Australia discovered by the 'Southern Route'

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

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

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 2

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

Other Sciences / Other

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

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.


First Americans arrived as 2 separate migrations, according to new genetic evidence

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created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 4

The first people to arrive in America traveled as at least two separate groups to arrive in their new home at about the same time, according to new genetic evidence published online on January 8th in Current Biology, a Cell ...





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Two-million-year-old evidence shows tool-making hominins inhabited grassland environments

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...


Research reveals history of Chinese agriculture

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created Jan 15, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 0

A research team headed by a University of Toronto anthropology professor has published a study containing new insights into the history of agriculture in a region of China where one of the world’s earliest state-level societies ...


Archaeologist uses satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico

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created May 13, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Satellite imagery obtained from NASA will help archeologist Bill Middleton peer into the ancient Mexican past. In a novel archeological application, multi- and hyperspectral data will help build the most accurate and most ...


Despite their diversity, pygmies of Western Central Africa share recent common ancestors

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created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Despite the great cultural, physical, and genetic diversity found amongst the numerous West Central African human populations that are collectively designated as "Pygmies," a report published online on February 5th in Current Bi ...


Archeology of homelessness

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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 doesn't even have to be ancient, ...


Evidence from dirty teeth: Ancient Peruvians ate well

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created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Starch grains preserved on human teeth reveal that ancient Peruvians ate a variety of cultivated crops including squash, beans, peanuts and the fruit of cultivated pacay trees.


Debate unfolds over origin of grouped stones at lake's bottom

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created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Forty feet below the surface of Lake Michigan in Grand Traverse Bay, a mysterious pattern of stones can be seen rising from an otherwise sandy half-mile of lake floor.


'Peking Man' older than thought; somehow adapted to cold

'Peking Man' older than thought; somehow adapted to cold

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created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(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.


Salt production started in ancient China

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created Aug 23, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A Harvard University study reports large-scale salt production occurred in inland China more than 2,000 years ago, the earliest date yet uncovered.


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Peruvian citadel is site of earliest ancient solar observatory in the Americas

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created Mar 01, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (54) | comments 0

Archeologists from Yale and the University of Leicester have identified an ancient solar observatory at Chankillo, Peru as the oldest in the Americas with alignments covering the entire solar year, according ...



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