Egypt archeologists unearth 110 ancient tombs in Nile Delta (Phys.org 27/04/21)
Egyptian archeologists unearthed 110 burial tombs at an ancient site in a Nile Delta province, the Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said Tuesday
La Fundación Palarq es una entidad privada y sin ánimo de lucro que se crea con la finalidad de apoyar las Misiones en Arqueología y Paleontología Humana Españolas en el extranjero, excluyendo Europa, dentro de una perspectiva que abarca desde la etapa paleontológica a las épocas prehistóricas y las históricas en interés monumental
How 3D Scanning is Reinventing Paleoanthropology (Scientific American 25/04/21)
It lets us excavate ancient fossils while preserving information about the sediments that hold them—crucial to understanding their age, among other things
Lunch Break Science #26| Andrea Baden and Stacey Tecot
Lunch Break Science is a weekly online series featuring short lectures or interviews with Leakey Foundation scientists Lunch Break Science #26| Andrea Baden and Stacey Tecot Meet Leakey Foundation grantees Andrea Baden and Stacey Tecot on this special Earth Day episode of Lunch Break Science and learn about lemur behavior and ecology.
New study of Roman/Byzantine settlement within the emerald mining network (Heritage Daily 22/04/21)
A new paper published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies presents the results of and images from the resuming of the archaeological seasons in the Mons Smaragdus region in the Egyptian Eastern Desert
Genomes Reveal Humanity’s Journey into the Americas (Scientific American 21/04/21)
DNA has upended neat and tidy accounts of the peopling of the American continents
New Evidence Regarding Emerald Production In Roman Egypt Coming From Wadi Sikait (Eurasia Review 15/04/21)
A new paper published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies presents the results of and images from the resuming of the archaeological seasons in the Mons Smaragdus region in the Egyptian Eastern Desert
Lunch Break Science #25| Nicole Thompson González
Lunch Break Science is a weekly online series featuring short lectures or interviews with Leakey Foundation scientists Lunch Break Science #25| Nicole Thompson González Meet Leakey Foundation grantee Nicole Thompson González and learn about the costs and benefits of social connections during development in blue monkeys and chimpanzees.
DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared (Science 15/04/21)
Estatuas cave in northern Spain was a hive of activity 105,000 years ago
‘High status’ Roman villa and bath house found in England (CNN 15/04/21)
Remains of a complex of “high-status” Roman buildings have been uncovered during construction work on a new housing development in northern England
New evidence regarding emerald production in Roman Egypt coming from Wadi Sikait (EurekAlert 14/04/21)
Resuming the archaeological season in the Egyptian Eastern Desert provides proof of Roman emerald mines
New evidence suggests sexual division of labor as farming arose in Europe (Phys.org 14/04/21)
A new investigation of stone tools buried in graves provides evidence supporting the existence of a division of different types of labor between people of male and female biological sex at the start of the Neolithic
Genetic admixture in the South Pacific: from Denisovans to the human immune response (EurekAlert 14/04/21)
Describing the genetic diversity of human populations is essential to improve our understanding of human diseases and their geographical distribution
