A newly translated 19th-century book, written by samurai, describes martial arts techniques designed to help police officers of the time. The highly guarded practices included how to tie suspects up using paper string and fighting techniques that allowed officers to… Continue Reading
Some fossils found in Sweden that have bewildered scientists for decades turn out to be the oldest known land fossils that have been discovered to date. The fossils are 440 million year old fungus help life take root on… Continue Reading
A growing number of scientists have proposed the creation of a new epoch in Earth’s geologic history that would reflect the impact of humanity upon the planet. This new epoch, the Anthropocene, is proposed to have begun when humans began… Continue Reading
Large Roman winery, baths exposed in Jerusalem Posted by TANN ArchaeoHeritage, Archaeology, Breakingnews, Greater Middle East, Israel, Near East 5:30 PM Unexpected finds more than 1,600 years old were uncovered during archaeological excavations financed by the Merom Yerushalayim Company, which… Continue Reading
A new, less expensive, and faster method now has been developed and used to determine the DNA sequence of the male-specific Y chromosome in the gorilla. The technique will allow better access to genetic information of the Y chromosome of… Continue Reading
Neanderthals used these ‘manganese oxides’ in fire-making and not as previously thought for coloring. This information demonstrates the Neanderthals were highly intelligent and had advance cognitive skills. Read more at: http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2016/03/neanderthals-may-have-used-manganese.html#.VtxBDOYt5eQ
Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have thus initiated the Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee and, since 2010, have collected data on chimpanzee behavior, demography and resource availability across Africa following a standardized… Continue Reading
Westerners have a less-diverse gut microbiome compared to hunter-gatherers, but how and why these microbe collections diverged has largely remained a mystery. Now, researchers reporting in Cell Reports describe an intermediate gut microbiome from the Central African Republic’s Bantu community,… Continue Reading
Now there’s a new reason to own a 3D printer. MorphoSource, launched at Duke in 2013, is the largest and most open digital fossil repository of its kind. MorphoSource is allowing professionals and amauteurs download and create fossils that they… Continue Reading
In a middle-class tomb just east of the Nile River in what was Upper Nubia, a woman offers a glimpse of how two met civilizations met, mingled and a new pharaonic dynasty arose. Her tomb was Egyptian, but she was… Continue Reading