News tagged with human artifact

Virtual possessions have powerful hold on teenagers, researchers say

Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today's online world may be as precious to teenagers as a favorite book that a parent once read to them or a t-shirt ...

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created May 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Stone cutting tools link early humans to prehistoric India

Dating of recently discovered artifacts in South India indicates that early humans lived in the region more than a million years ago, and that they used distinct 'Acheulian' stone cutting tools, a new study ...

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created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Paleo-Indians settled North America earlier than thought: study

New discoveries at a Central Texas archaeological site by a Texas A&M University-led research team prove that people lived in the region far earlier – as much as 2,500 years earlier – than previously ...

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created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Modern humans reached Arabia earlier than thought, new artifacts suggest

Artifacts unearthed in the United Arab Emirates date back 100,000 years and imply that modern humans first left Africa much earlier than researchers had expected, a new study reports. In light of their excavation, ...

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created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

In Brief: Social inequality among Pueblo Indians

A study in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that social hierarchies may have emerged within Southwestern Native American society as early as the 9th century.

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created Nov 09, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gulf exploration yields evidence of raw materials used by early Americans

In one of the more dramatic moments of an underwater archaeological survey co-led by Mercyhurst College archaeologist James Adovasio along Florida's Gulf Coast this summer, Andy Hemmings stood on an inundated ...

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created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Ancient Humans Left Evidence from the Party that Ended 4,000 Years Ago

(PhysOrg.com) -- The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, University of Missouri researchers have ...

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created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1

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

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.

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