Evidence found of goose domestication in China 7,000 years ago (Phys.org 08/03/22)
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Japan and China has found evidence of goose domestication in China approximately 7,000 years ago
Rare Pictish stone unearthed near Angus (BBC 07/03/22)
A rare carved Pictish stone has been unearthed in Angus.Archaeologists believe it dates from the 5th or 6th Centuries
Lunch Break Science #41 | Mercy Akinyi
Meet Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellowship Scholar Mercy Akinyi and learn what studying disease in wild baboons tells us about how behavior influences disease transmission to others.
7,000-year-old grains hints at origin of Swiss pile dwellings (Phys.org 03/03/22)
Researchers at the University of Basel have now uncovered new clues and say that settlers at Lake Varese in northern Italy may have played a leading role
Mummification in Europe may be older than previously thought (Heritage Daily 03/03/22)
A multi-national study of the Sado Valley in Portugal suggests that mummification in Europe may be older than previously thought
Stonehenge served as an ancient solar calendar: New analysis (Phys.org 01/03/22)
It had long been thought that the famous site of Stonehenge served as an ancient calendar, given its alignment with the solstices. Now, research has identified how it may have worked
Old Stone Age culture discovered in China (LiveScience 02/03/22)
Artifacts from a newly-excavated site include tiny stone tools
Origin of the 30,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf discovered (Phys.org 28/02/22)
The almost 11-cm-high Venus figurine from Willendorf (Austria) is one of the most important examples of early art in Europe
Findings in Theopetra Cave Shed Light on Neolithic Era in Greece (Greek Reporter 28/02/22)
The cave that was created in the limestone there has been inhabited since the Middle Paleolithic period, and new findings give new insight into the lives of those early peoples
Ancient DNA reveals surprises about how early Africans lived, traveled and interacted (Rice University 23/02/22)
New research provides evidence of demographic shifts in sub-Saharan Africa
“A Genealogy for All of Humanity” – University of Oxford Researchers Create Largest Ever Human Family Tree (SciTechDaily 24/02/22)
Researchers from the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute have taken a major step towards mapping the entirety of genetic relationships among humans: a single genealogy that traces the ancestry of all of us. The study has been published today in Science
Earliest evidence of ear surgery 5,300 years ago (Phys.org 23/02/22)
A team of several researchers from the University of Valladolid, in Spain and one from the Spanish National Research Council in Italy, has found evidence of the earliest ear surgery performed on a human being. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, the group describes their study of a human skull found at the…