This is Lucy, a 3.18 million year old fossil specimen of Australopithecus afarensis.Credit: Image provided by John Kappelman, UT Austin
Lucy, the most famous fossil of a human ancestor, probably died after falling from a tree, according to a study...
Every culture enjoys music and song, and those songs serve many different purposes: accompanying a dance, soothing an infant, or expressing love. Now, after analyzing recordings from all around the world, researchers reporting in Current Biology on January 25 show that...
Lipo and a team of researchers analyzed human, faunal and botanical remains from the archaeological sites Anakena and Ahu Tepeu on Rapa Nui, dating from c. 1400 AD to the historic period, and modern reference material.
Credit: Jonathan Cohen, Binghamton...
Prehistoric Himalayan settlements are remote and only accessible today by horse and on foot.Credit: University of Oklahoma
In a collaborative study by the University of Oklahoma, University of Chicago, University of California, Merced, and Uppsala University, researchers conduct the first...
This image shows cone photoreceptors (green) in a slice from a mouse retina. A majority of the photoreceptors (97%) in the retina are rods (black). The black layer on top of the photoreceptors is retinal pigment epithelium.Credit: Jung-Woong Kim
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Danish scientists have managed to extract a complete human DNA sample from a piece of birch pitch more than 5,000 years old, used as a kind of chewing gum, a study revealed Tuesday.
The Stone-Age sample yielded enough information to...
Researchers working inside the Klipdrift complex. Credit: Magnus Haaland
Environmental records obtained from archaeological sites in South Africa's southern Cape suggest climate may not have been directly linked to cultural and technological innovations of Middle Stone Age humans in southern...
Careful examination of numerous fluted spear points found in Alaska and western Canada prove that the Ice Age peopling of the Americas was much more complex than previously believed, according to a study done by two Texas A&M University...
Neanderthal depiction (stock image). Neanderthals lived in the Middle Paleolithic, the middle period of the Old Stone Age. This period encompasses the time from roughly 200,000 to 40,000 before our times.
Credit: ©erix/ Flickr
Neanderthals once populated the entire European continent....
Scholars from Rice University, University College London and the Field Museum have found the first direct evidence that glass was produced in sub-Saharan Africa centuries before the arrival of Europeans, a finding that the researchers said represents a "new...
There is no truth to the popular belief that members of the so-called baby boomer generation have a greater work ethic than people born a decade or two later. This is according to a team of US researchers led...
