2+ week, 17+ hour ago   (529+ words) A new study of Dutch skeletal remains shows how hard child labor damaged growing spines between the 17th and 19th centuries. Researchers examined the remains of 143 children and young adults aged about 4 to 25 years from three Dutch populations dating from 1650 to 1850. The…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (519+ words) For decades, scientists have used the human pelvis to study a basic question about our evolution: how did our ancestors balance walking upright with giving birth to large-brained babies? The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (479+ words) A new study has overturned a long-held idea about when farming reached Ireland. Bone fragments from Ferriter’s Cove, once seen as the earliest signs of domestic cattle, came from a bear and a wild boar. Ferriter’s Cove sits on the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (468+ words) A 4,000-year-old painted stone plaque from an Indonesian island offers new evidence about the spread of Austronesian culture across the Pacific. Archaeologists found the plaque at Huknaur rockshelter on Wetar Island, in eastern Indonesia. An international team from The Australian…...