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Anthropology Source: National Geographic
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Wednesday, Aug 19, 2015, 12:04pm Rating: | Views: 3619 | Comments: 0
Archeologist Believes He's Found Egyptian Queen Nefertiti's Tomb Nicholas Reeves, a residential scholar at the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, tells Renee Montagne his hypothesis is based on studying laser scans of King Tutankhamun's tomb.
Archaeology Source: NPR
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Wednesday, Aug 12, 2015, 9:46am Rating: | Views: 3270 | Comments: 0
Ancient Romanian jawbone sheds light on Neanderthal interbreeding You may not know it, but you probably have some Neanderthal in you. For people around the world, except sub-Saharan Africans, about 1 to 3 percent of their DNA comes from Neanderthals, our close cousins who disappeared roughly 39,000 years ago.
Anthropology Source: Reuters
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Tuesday, Jun 23, 2015, 9:26am Rating: | Views: 2282 | Comments: 0
Anthropology Source: CBSNews
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Thursday, May 28, 2015, 8:05am Rating: | Views: 1368 | Comments: 0
Red Lady cave burial reveals Stone Age secrets Some 19,000 years ago, a woman was coated in red ochre and buried in a cave in northern Spain. What do her remains say about Paleolithic life in western Europe?
Anthropology Source: New Scientist
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Thursday, Mar 19, 2015, 7:50am Rating: | Views: 1463 | Comments: 0
Cervantes remains found in Madrid convent, investigators believe MADRID (Reuters) - Investigators said on Tuesday they believe remains found under a Madrid convent include those of Miguel de Cervantes, the author of "Don Quixote" and considered the father of the modern novel.
Anthropology Source: Reuters
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Tuesday, Mar 17, 2015, 9:28am Rating: | Views: 1243 | Comments: 0
Jaw Fossil In Ethiopia Likely Oldest Ever Found In Human Line The 2.8 million-year-old bone may mark the first human branch in the primate family tree. It wasn't just a bigger brain that marked the shift, scientists say. It was also big changes in the mouth.
Anthropology Source: NPR
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Thursday, Mar 05, 2015, 9:05am Rating: | Views: 1160 | Comments: 0
Anthropology Source: Science
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Friday, Dec 12, 2014, 11:28am Rating: | Views: 1607 | Comments: 0
Greenpeace sorry for Nazca stunt Activists apologise for any "moral offence" that Greenpeace has caused, after a publicity stunt on the ancient Nazca lines in Peru.
Anthropology Source: BBC News
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Thursday, Dec 11, 2014, 7:59am Rating: | Views: 1541 | Comments: 0
Anthropology Source: NPR
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Tuesday, Oct 28, 2014, 8:15am Rating: | Views: 1153 | Comments: 0
Old, cold and bold: Ice Age people dwelled high in Peru's Andes In a bleak, treeless landscape high in the southern Peruvian Andes, bands of intrepid Ice Age people hunkered down in rudimentary dwellings and withstood frigid weather, thin air and other hardships.
Anthropology Source: Reuters
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Friday, Oct 24, 2014, 8:16am Rating: | Views: 1221 | Comments: 0
Easter Island's ancient inhabitants weren't so lonely after all They lived on a remote dot of land in the middle of the Pacific, 2,300 miles (3,700 km) west of South America and 1,100 miles (1,770 km) from the closest island, erecting huge stone figures that still stare enigmatically from the hillsides.
Anthropology Source: Reuters
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Friday, Oct 24, 2014, 8:16am Rating: | Views: 1199 | Comments: 0
Regular Guy From Boston Decides to Map the City’s Entire History A veteran EMT and ambulance driver in Boston, Ed McCarthy is in a great position to understand his hometown spatially. But he’s also a history geek, and while constantly driving around the city’s neighborhoods, he loves recognizing the streets, buildings and other locales from the history books he so often buries his nose in.
Anthropology Source: Wired
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Friday, Oct 24, 2014, 8:16am Rating: | Views: 1312 | Comments: 0
Drought exposes once-submerged Oregon town to archaeological dig Record drought on the U.S. West Coast has exposed the ruins of an Oregon hamlet once submerged under the waters of a man-made reservoir, allowing a rare opportunity for an archaeological excavation, a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation official said on Thursday.
Anthropology Source: Reuters
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Friday, Oct 10, 2014, 8:28am Rating: | Views: 1217 | Comments: 0
Indonesian Cave Paintings As Old As Europe's Ancient Art Figures found on the walls of a prehistoric cave in Indonesia are at least 35,400 years old or more, scientists say. That might mean the earliest art developed independently in different regions.
Anthropology Source: NPR
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Thursday, Oct 09, 2014, 9:15am Rating: | Views: 1208 | Comments: 0
The Moral Dilemma We Face in the Age of Humans Humans are proficient problem solvers—but so far that trait has come at a cost. Can our species remain resiliant without destroying the world?
Anthropology Source: Smithsonian
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Wednesday, Oct 08, 2014, 9:01am Rating: | Views: 1206 | Comments: 0
It's not a small world after all: world population will soar Contrary to some earlier projections, the world's population will soar through the end of the 21st century thanks largely to sub-Saharan Africa's higher-than-expected birth rates, United Nations and other population experts said on Thursday.
Were Neanderthals artists? Study of engravings in Gibraltar cave could be final nail in the coffin of hypothesis that Neanderthals were cognitively inferior to modern humans
The Lost Hobbits of the Eastern Arctic Scientists never understood what became of the Paleo-Eskimos who once peopled the north. Now they know—and there's new reason to miss them
Anthropology Source: TIME Magazine
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Friday, Aug 29, 2014, 8:33am Rating: | Views: 1285 | Comments: 0
What Bronze Age Wine Snobs Drank There were some fine vintages 3,000 years ago, and a new study reveals how ancient mixologists made them finer still
Anthropology Source: TIME Magazine
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Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 8:35am Rating: | Views: 1257 | Comments: 0