Chemical analysis on these storage jars mark the earliest discovery of wine residue in the entire prehistory of the Italian peninsula.
Credit: Dr. Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida
Chemical analysis conducted on ancient pottery could dramatically predate the...
Kenneth Chapin with a whip spider on his back, in a cave in Puerto Rico in 2012.
Credit: Courtesy of Kenneth Chapin
Would you be willing to spend each night in the company of 300,000 bats -- all in the service...
This is a 3-D habitual and environmental reconstructions of Ponomarenkia belmonthensis restored after linedrawing of the holotype and 2-D reconstruction. The plant is Australian cycadophyt Lepidozamia hopei from the Botanical Garden of Jena University.
Credit: © Evgeny V. Yan/FSU Jena
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Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon at the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. (Stock image)
Credit: © gnagel / Fotolia
Many attempts to explain how past people experienced their wider world have focused on sight at the expense of...
Side view of a domestic cat skull from the Neolithic site of Wuzhuangguoliang (Shaanxi, 3200-2800 BC).
Credit: © J.-D. Vigne, CNRS/MNHN
Were domestic cats brought to China over 5,000 years ago? Or were small cats domesticated in China at that time?...
These are several cats buried in a 6000-year-old pit in Hierakonpolis, Egypt.
Credit: © Hierakonpolis Expedition
DNA found at archaeological sites reveals that the origins of our domestic cat are in the Near East and ancient Egypt. Cats were domesticated by...
Two drones work in tandem to discovered what is behind a brick wall.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - Santa Barbara
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara professor Yasamin Mostofi's lab have given the first demonstration of three-dimensional imaging of...
Indian women in saris.
Credit: © Kokhanchikov / Fotolia
In addition to its vast patchwork of languages, cultures and religions, the Indian Subcontinent also harbours huge genetic diversity. Where did its peoples originate? This is an area of huge controversy among...
One of the axeheads after it was dug up.
Credit: Eirik Solheim
Some 3,000 years ago, 24 axes were cached in Stjørdal municipality, about 44 km east of Trondheim. They're now seeing the light of day once again.
In late April, a...
This is a funerary garden discovered by CSIC's research team.
Credit: CSIC Communications
The Djehuty Project, led by research professor, José Manuel Galán, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has discovered a 4,000-year-old funerary garden- the first such garden ever...
This is a photomicrograph of a vesicular green shard from the Onaping Formation of the Sudbury impact basin.
Credit: Paul Guyett, Trinity College Dublin
Meteorite impacts can produce more than craters on Earth -- they can also spark volcanic activity that...
