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Carles Lalueza-Fox -- author profile on ZME Science
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (127+ words) Carles Lalueza-Fox is a leading research expert on the retrieval and analysis of ancient genomes, including extinct hominins, past human populations, and pathogens. He is Director of the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona and the author of several books, including…...
Could Yeast Help Build 3D-Printed Habitats on Mars? Scientists Are Testing the Recipe
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (546+ words) A yeast-based material turns Mars’s hostile environment into part of the construction process....
This Tiny Ancient Plant Is Becoming a New Secret Weapon For Forensics
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (656+ words) Moss can be an important silent witness. Moss is ancient. It evolved some 470 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur hatched. It is so rudimentary that it lacks both flowers and roots, yet it is an expert at survival....
Scientists Found a Real Mummy’s Curse Hiding in the Online Trade in Human Remains – ZME Science
1+ week, 5+ day ago (984+ words) Online sales of mummified remains may expose buyers, sellers and postal workers to hidden hazards. Disturb the dead and disaster may follow. Such is the pharaohs’ curse, the old legend that opening a tomb or handling a mummy could bring…...
Hunters in South Africa Were Using Complex Poison Arrows 60,000 Years Ago
8+ mon, 4+ day ago (528+ words) Home → Science → Anthropology New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago. Picture a hunt in Pleistocene South Africa, roughly 60,000 years ago. The weapon is a delicate bow launching a tiny,…...
Researchers Recreated a Lost Ming-Dynasty Goldsmithing Technique That Made Gold Earrings Look Like Woven Thread
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (525+ words) Ancient earrings reveal a forgotten way to fold gold like fabric....
15,000-Year-Old Clay Beads Show Children Helped Craft Some of the First Ornaments
5+ mon, 6+ day ago (781+ words) Home → Science → History Beads modeled on plants and marked by fingerprints suggest symbolism and social learning predate agriculture by thousands of years. Fifteen thousand years ago, someone pressed their fingers into soft clay—never knowing those tiny ridges would outlast…...
A Mislabelled “Awl” From 5,000 Years Ago May Be Ancient Egypt’s Earliest Metal Drill
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (665+ words) Researchers found the ultimate ancient power tool hiding in plain sight at a Cambridge museum. In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool from a cemetery at Badari…...
Oldest Blue Pigment Reveals Ice Age Art May Not Have Been Just Red and Black 13,000 Years Ago
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (549+ words) For fifty years, a small stone sat on display in a German museum. Catalogued in the 1970s as a simple “oil lamp” from the end of the Ice Age, it drew little attention. But when archaeologists looked again, they saw something…...
Ancient, Massive Hoard Of Beads In Spain Hints At A Forgotten Female Dynasty
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (844+ words) A quarter-million beads reveal the power of ancient women. It’s not uncommon for archaeologists to stumble upon ancient tombs filled with grave goods. Usually, we see weapons, jewels, crowns, or pottery. But finding a whopping 270,000 beads in a single location…...