11+ hour, 13+ min ago  (420+ words) image: A general view of the excavation of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov Acheulian Site view more Charcoal rarely survives at such early prehistoric sites, making this unusually large assemblage a unique window into the daily practices of early fire users. While…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (58+ words) Eurek Alert! Source discrimination of sedimentary PAHs in the Orkhon River Basin, Central Asia: a geochemical record of anthropogenic contributions Carbon Research Editorial Office More on this News Release Reading the mud: Central Asia's rivers hold a hidden timeline of…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (620+ words) image: Dr Matthew Stephenson, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University view more For the first time, an international research team has harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) to decode the rules of an ancient board game,…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (68+ words) Image shows one of the mummy samples, the size of a peppercorn, used in the study. Disclaimer: AAAS and Eurek Alert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to Eurek Alert! by. .. Image shows one of the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (95+ words) An international team of researchers from LMU, the University of Zurich, and further partners investigated ash residues from incense burners. The substances they discovered show that Pompeii was part of a global trade network. Exotic tree resins from Africa or…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago  (720+ words) New Haven, Conn. "Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum's Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient Egyptian society, according to a new study…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (464+ words) The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioural traits that have made human societies able to thrive and expand, according to a…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (81+ words) The mixture of pigments found in a Cartagena domus and analyzedby the IQUEMA and SCAI laboratories reveals the technical expertise of 1st-century craftsmen image: Jos" Rafael Ruiz Arrebola and Daniel Cosano Hidalgo, researchers fromthe Department of Organic Chemistry at the…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (143+ words) Genomic data confirm that certain human herpesviruses became part of the human genome thousands of years ago image: Laboratory technician and one of the authors in the contamination-controlled ancient DNA laboratory at the University of Tartu extracting tiny amounts of…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (546+ words) Researchers led by geneticist Sarah Tishkoff's found that prehistoric mating preferences is a likely explanation for why modern humans have small amounts of Neanderthal genetic elements on their X chromosomes, challenging the ideas of evolution Now, Tishkoff and her team…...