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| NC State takes lead in crime scene investigation training Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(North Carolina State University) North Carolina State University researchers are launching a new project that will standardize forensic crime scene investigation training throughout the state, decrease the cost of providing the training to law enforcement personnel and forensic scientists, and hopefully contribute to the establishment of nationwide standards for death investigations. |
| Deathways open doors to unexpected cultural practices Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University at Buffalo) Cremation, "air burial," grave cairns, funeral mounds, mummification, belief in life after death -- death practices sacred to one culture are often considered "odd" or even terrifying by another. In every social group throughout history, the disposal of the dead has special significance, and ways of death always fascinate those on the outside looking in, says a professor of history at the University at Buffalo. |
| Egalitarian revolution in the Pleistocene? Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Public Library of Science) Although anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are still debating this question, a new study, published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, supports the view that the first egalitarian societies may have appeared tens of thousands of years before the French Revolution, Marx and Lenin. |
| Why your boss is white, middle-class and a show-off Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of New South Wales) The way male managers power dress, posture and exercise power is due to humans' evolutionary biology, according to research from the University of New South Wales. |
| After the first decade of metagenomics -- adolescent growth spurt anticipated Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(DOE/Joint Genome Institute) Ten years after the term was coined, metagenomics is going mainstream and already paying provocative dividends in the areas of energy and environment, according to a "Q&A," News and Views by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute microbial ecology program head Philip Hugenholtz and MIT researcher Gene Tyson, published in the Sep. 25 edition of the journal Nature. |
| Primordial fish had rudimentary fingers Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Uppsala University) Tetrapods, the first four-legged land animals, are regarded as the first organisms that had fingers and toes. Now researchers at Uppsala University can show that this is wrong. Using medical x-rays, they found rudiments of fingers in the fins in fossil Panderichthys, the "transitional animal," which indicates that rudimentary fingers developed considerably earlier than was previously thought. The study is to be published in Nature. |
| Research pushes back history of crop development 10,000 years Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Warwick) Researchers led by Dr. Robin Allaby of the University of Warwick' have found evidence that genetics supports the idea that the emergence of agriculture in prehistory strated 10,000 years earlier than originally thought and took much longer. |
| Roman York skeleton could be early TB victim Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of York) The skeleton of a man discovered by archaeologists in a shallow grave on the site of the University of York's campus expansion could be that of one of Britain's earliest victims of tuberculosis. |
| Revising and re-sizing history: New work shows Ohio site to be an ancient water works, not a fort Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Cincinnati) More than 200 years ago, William Henry Harrison -- when he was a general and not yet the US' ninth president -- made historical pronouncements that a hilltop site west of Cincinnati was an ancient military fort. Discoveries made by University of Cincinnati researchers this summer, though, offer new evidence that turns that long-accepted historical interpretation upside down. |
| DNA shows that last woolly mammoths had North American roots Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(McMaster University) DNA tests have proved that the roots of the iconic woolly mammoth are North American, not Asian, as previously thought. |
| Ancient DNA evidence points to woolly mammoths' dynamic past Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Cell Press) The largest study ever conducted of DNA evidence extracted from long-dead woolly mammoths points to a rockier past for the iconic Ice Age giants than many had suspected. |
| Connolly tells Manchester conference: Tutankhamen fathered twins Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Manchester) Two fetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamen may have been twins and were very likely to have been the children of the teenage Pharaoh, according to the anatomist who first studied the mummified remains of the young King in the 1960s. |
| Prehistoric funerary precinct excavated in northern Israel Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Hebrew University excavations in the north of Israel have revealed a prehistoric funerary precinct dating back to 6,750-8,500 BCE. The precinct, a massive walled enclosure measuring 10 meters by at least 20 meters, was discovered at excavations being undertaken at Kfar HaHoresh. The Pre-pottery Neolithic B site in the Nazareth hills of the lower Galilee is interpreted as having been a regional funerary and cult center for nearby lowland villages. |
| 'Pristine' Amazonian region hosted large, urban civilization, study finds Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Florida) They aren't the lost cities early explorers sought fruitlessly to discover. |
| Bone parts don't add up to conclusion of Palauan dwarfs Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Oregon) Misinterpreted fragments of leg bones, teeth and brow ridges found in Palau appear to be an archaeologist's undoing, according to researchers at three institutions. They say that the so-called dwarfs of these Micronesian islands actually were modern, normal-sized hunters and gatherers. |
| UC project puts Midwest mounds back on the map Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Cincinnati) Mammoth-sized earthworks built over three millennia by Native American peoples in the Midwest are now back on the map thanks to a University of Cincinnati project. |
| New evidence debunks 'stupid' Neanderthal myth Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Exeter) Research by UK and American scientists has struck another blow to the theory that Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) became extinct because they were less intelligent than our ancestors (Homo sapiens). The research team has shown that early stone tool technologies developed by our species, Homo sapiens, were no more efficient than those used by Neanderthals. Published today in the Journal of Human Evolution, their discovery debunks a textbook belief held by archaeologists for more than 60 years. |
| New book further supports controversial theory of 'Man the Hunted' Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Washington University in St. Louis) Despite popular theories to the contrary, early humans evolved not as aggressive hunters, but as prey of many predators."Humans are no more born to be hunters than to be gardeners," argues Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, in the newly-updated version of the controversial book "Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators and Human Evolution." |
| Oetzi the Iceman dressed like a herdsman Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Wiley-Blackwell) A famous Neolithic Iceman is dressed in clothes made from sheep and cattle hair, a new study shows. The researchers say their findings support the idea that the Iceman was a herdsman, and that their technique, reported today in the journal Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, has use in the modern clothing industry. |
| 'Virtual archaeologist' reconnects fragments of an ancient civilization Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Princeton University, Engineering School) A team of Princeton University computer scientists working in collaboration with archaeologists in Greece has developed a new technology that has the potential to change the way people do archaeology. |
| Hebrew U. archaeological excavations uncover Roman temple in Zippori (Sepphoris) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ruins of a Roman temple from the second century CE have recently been unearthed in the Zippori National Park in Israel. Above the temple are foundations of a church from the Byzantine period. The excavations, which were undertaken by the Noam Shudofsky Zippori Expedition led by of Prof. Zeev Weiss of the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, shed light on the multicultural society of ancient Zippori. |
| New evidence implicates humans in prehistoric animal extinctions Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Exeter) Research led by UK and Australian scientists sheds new light on the role that our ancestors played in the extinction of Australia's prehistoric animals. Their study suggests that the mass extinction of Tasmania's large prehistoric animals was the result of human hunting, and not climate change as previously believed. |
| UCSB receives collection of aerial photography valued at $14.3 million Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of California - Santa Barbara) More than 500,000 aerial images -- a pictorial odyssey spanning 65 major metropolitan areas in the United States at the turn of the 21st century -- has been donated to UC Santa Barbara by Pacific Western Aerial Surveys, of Santa Barbara. |
| Complete Neandertal mitochondrial genome sequenced from 38,000-year-old bone Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Cell Press) A study reported in the August 8 issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, reveals the complete mitochondrial genome of a 38,000-year-old Neandertal. The findings open a window into the Neandertals' past and helps answer lingering questions about our relationship to them. |
| Antarctic fossils paint a picture of a much warmer continent Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(National Science Foundation) National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra -- in the form of fossilized plants and insects -- on the interior of the southernmost continent before temperatures began a relentless drop millions of years ago. |
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