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
‘Lost golden city’ found in Egypt reveals lives of ancient pharaohs (BBC 09/04/21)
The discovery of a 3,000-year-old city that was lost to the sands of Egypt has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological finds since Tutankhamun’s tomb
Egypt mummies pass through Cairo in ancient rulers’ parade (BBC 04/04/21)
Egyptians have been witnessing a historic procession of their country’s ancient rulers through the capital, Cairo
Genomes of the earliest Europeans (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 07/04/21)
Ancient genomes shed new light on the earliest Europeans and their relationships with Neandertals
Bronze Age slab found in France is oldest 3D map in Europe (BBC 06/04/21)
A freshly unearthed Bronze-Age stone may be the oldest three-dimensional map in Europe, researchers say