Daily Archives: 9 April, 2020

Earliest Humans In Amazon Created Thousands Of ‘Forest Islands’ As They Tamed Wild Plants (Eurasiareview 04/09/20)

The earliest human inhabitants of the Amazon created thousands of artificial forest islands as they tamed wild plants to grow food, a new study shows.

Revolutionary new method for dating pottery sheds new light on prehistoric past (Sciencedaily 04/08/20)

A team has developed a new method to date archaeological pottery using fat residues remaining in the pot wall from cooking.