Ancient voyage carried Native Americans’ DNA to remote Pacific islands (Nature 07/08/20)
Finding that some Polynesians carry genetic ancestry from South America supports long-held theory that ancient populations met and interbred.
AN EXTINCT SPECIES OF LARGE RODENT NEWLY DISCOVERED IN MOROCCO (IPHES 07/08/20)
It lived around 2.6 million years ago and was significantly larger than the extant members of the genus Golunda.
Mysterious Stone Age flint artefacts may be crude sculptures of human (New Scientist 07/07/20)
More than 100 distinctive flint artefacts from a Stone Age village in Jordan may be figurines of people used in funeral rituals, according to a team of archaeologists. However, other researchers aren’t convinced that the objects represent people at all. Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2248126-mysterious-stone-age-flint-artefacts-may-be-crude-sculptures-of-humans/#ixzz6RUxV9ShZ
Underwater caves in Mexico preserve one of the world’s oldest ochre mines (Science 07/03/20)
Crouching as she wound her way through a pinched underground corridor, a young woman grasped a torch in one hand, soot blackening the craggy ceiling above her. Guided by stacks of stones deeper and deeper in the darkness of the cave, she finally spied her prize: a blood-red vein of rock in the fire-lit wall.…
Lunch Break Science # 2 | Lauren Schroeder Interview
Lunch Break Science is a weekly online series featuring short lectures or interviews with Leakey Foundation scientists Lunch Break Science # 2 | Lauren Schroeder Interview Meet Leakey Foundation grantee Lauren Schroeder and learn what it takes to study the skulls of early human ancestors.
Daily briefing: Australian archaeological sites discovered on the seabed (Nature 07/02/20)
Divers found stone tools belonging to people that lived more than 7,000 years ago. Plus: an image library with offensive tags has been pulled offline, and a fire has destroyed important specimens at a museum in Brazil.
Aboriginal artifacts reveal first ancient underwater cultural sites in Australia (Phys.org 07/02/20)
The first underwater Aboriginal archeological sites have been discovered off northwest Australia dating back thousands of years ago when the current seabed was dry land.
Natural Cave Detected Beneath the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacán (Heritage Daily 03/30/20)
Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico City has detected the existence of a natural cave beneath the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacán in Mexico.
Lunch Break Science #1 • Zarin Machanda Lecture
Lunch Break Science is a weekly online series featuring short lectures or interviews with Leakey Foundation scientists Lunch Break Science #1 • Zarin Machanda Lecture Explore the nature of chimpanzee communication and relationships with Leakey Foundation grantee and director of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project Zarin Machanda. This short lecture is part of The Leakey Foundation’s…
Dog Breeding in the Neolithic Age ( The New York Times 06/05/20)
Fossils and modern DNA show the ancient roots of Arctic sled dogs.
48,000-year-old arrowheads found in Sri Lankan cave (ScienceFocus 06/22/20)
An international team of researchers have found a cache of immaculately preserved bone arrowheads in the cave of Fa-Hien Lena, deep in the heart of Sri Lanka’s rainforests. The find is evidence of the earliest use of bows and arrows anywhere outside of Africa, they say.
Stonehenge: Neolithic monument found near sacred site (BBC News 06/22/20)
Archaeologists have discovered a ring of prehistoric shafts, dug thousands of years ago near Stonehenge.
