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Researchers in South Africa’s Border Cave, a well-known archaeological site perched on a cliff between eSwatini (Swaziland) and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, have found evidence that people have been using grass bedding to create...
Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate after an international team of scientists improved the technique for assessing the age of historical objects. The team of researchers at the Universities of Sheffield, Belfast,...
At the start of her 2008 field season at El Parque El Piñalito in the Misiones province in northeastern Argentina, Dr Ilaria Agostini knew something was terribly wrong. Agostini has studied Misiones’ two howler...
By Thomas Suddendorf, The University of Queensland and Michelle Langley, Griffith University Today, bags are everywhere — from cheap canvas ones at the supermarket to designer handbags costing up to US$2,000,000. But archaeological evidence...
Ancient submerged Aboriginal archaeological sites await underwater rediscovery off the coast of Australia, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE by Jonathan Benjamin of Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia and colleagues. At the...
A loner and a hunter with highly developed territorial instincts. These features make cats averse to domestication. Even so, we did it. Nowadays, about 500 million of them live in households around the world....
The diets of ancient foxes were influenced by humans, and these small carnivores might be tracers of human activity over time, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE by Chris Baumann of...
Alarming results from a 2019 survey of well-known archaeological site Ageröd reveal drastic bone and organic matter deterioration since the site’s initial excavations in the 1940s, suggesting action is needed to preserve findings from...
A new method for estimating the biological sex of human remains based on reading protein sequences rather than DNA has been used to study an archaeological site in Northern California. The protein-based technique gave...
By Robyn Humphreys, University of Cape Town; June Bam-Hutchison, University of Cape Town, and Rebecca Ackermann, University of Cape Town For many people, the mention of archaeology makes them think of Indiana Jones. He’s...
Four fossilized monkey teeth discovered in the Peruvian Amazon provide new evidence that more than one group of ancient primates journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa, according to new research published in the...
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Fossil teeth fill 6-million-year-old gap in primate evolution
16 May, 2019
