| Title |
Type |
Date |
Words |
| Oldest alphabet identified as Hebrew: Israelites turned hieroglyphics into letters, researcher claims. |
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Dec 24, 2016 |
514 |
| Glassmaking may have begun in Egypt, not Mesopotamia. |
Brief article |
Dec 24, 2016 |
268 |
| Monkey flakes resemble hominid tools: unlike human ancestors, capuchins don't use sharp rocks to cut. |
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Nov 26, 2016 |
577 |
| Australia's interior colonized quickly: roots of Aboriginal culture may stretch back 49,000 years. |
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Nov 26, 2016 |
875 |
| Apes recognize others' false beliefs: animals anticipate person's thoughts and actions, scientists say. |
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Nov 12, 2016 |
558 |
| Big Viking families nurtured murder: killers tended to have more relatives than their victims. |
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Nov 12, 2016 |
637 |
| Maya codex real, analysis claims: Grolier text could claim spot as oldest book from Americas. |
|
Oct 29, 2016 |
777 |
| Oldest indigo-dyed fabric found: ancient Peruvians used blue hue 6,000 years ago. |
|
Oct 15, 2016 |
489 |
| The hybrid factor: the physical effects of interbreeding among animals may offer clues to Neandertals' genetic mark on humans. |
|
Oct 15, 2016 |
3126 |
| Bonobos adept at nut cracking. |
Brief article |
Oct 1, 2016 |
147 |
| Details of Otzi's clothes unveiled: Iceman wore hides from wild and domesticated animals. |
|
Sep 17, 2016 |
359 |
| Lucy fell from tree, study claims: disputed analysis says tumble killed famed early hominid. |
|
Sep 17, 2016 |
751 |
| Cognitive scientist puts profanity in its place. |
Book review |
Sep 17, 2016 |
446 |
| Flood tale rooted in real disaster: deluge might have given China's first dynasty wet start. |
|
Sep 3, 2016 |
717 |
| Cancer afflicted ancient hominids: nearly 2-million-year-old bone had possibly malignant tumor. |
|
Sep 3, 2016 |
553 |
| Ape-man hoax pinned on one culprit: probe rules out coconspirators in Piltdown Man forgery. |
|
Sep 3, 2016 |
776 |
| Honey hunters ask birds for help: honeyguides, Yao people communicate to collaborate. |
|
Aug 20, 2016 |
698 |
| New date suggested for Homo naledi: South African hominid may have lived only 900,000 years ago. |
|
Aug 6, 2016 |
824 |
| Lasers map hidden cities in Cambodia: aerial surveys are revealing extent of ancient Khmer Empire. |
|
Jul 23, 2016 |
504 |
| Wine making goes way back in ancient Europe. |
Brief article |
Jul 9, 2016 |
246 |
| Hobbit history gets new beginning: fossils of potential ancestor fuel debate over Homo floresiensis. |
|
Jul 9, 2016 |
746 |
| Europeans lit fires 800,000 years ago: cave holds continent's earliest evidence of intentional blazes. |
|
Jul 9, 2016 |
443 |
| Deadly devotion: new studies explore why ordinary people turn terrorist. |
|
Jul 9, 2016 |
3060 |
| Stone circles show Neandertals' skills: ancient stalagmite structures found inside French cave. |
Brief article |
Jun 25, 2016 |
257 |
| Some Stone Age humans ventured back to Africa. |
Brief article |
Jun 25, 2016 |
176 |
| Climate shift altered primate evolution: fossil finds may explain why humans arose in Africa, not Asia. |
|
Jun 11, 2016 |
636 |
| Florida inhabited surprisingly early: more evidence puts people in North America before Clovis. |
|
Jun 11, 2016 |
620 |
| Bear bone rewrites human history in Ireland. |
Brief article |
May 28, 2016 |
207 |
| Ancient surgery had ritual purpose: skull cutting 6,000 years ago was not medical treatment. |
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May 28, 2016 |
717 |
| Debate over Homo naledi continues: fossils' age and arrival in cave remain mysterious. |
|
May 14, 2016 |
994 |
| Viking-era 'woman in blue' provides clues to Iceland's earliest settlers. |
Brief article |
May 14, 2016 |
323 |
| Belize cave was site of Maya child sacrifice. |
Brief article |
May 14, 2016 |
299 |
| Cambodia's hidden city: laser technology reveals surprising sprawl around Angkor Wat. |
|
May 14, 2016 |
3115 |
| Hobbits died out earlier than thought: disappearance coincided with Homo sapiens' arrival in region. |
|
Apr 30, 2016 |
793 |
| Marijuana linked to financial woes. |
Brief article |
Apr 30, 2016 |
242 |
| Melanesians carry Denisovan genes: present-day Pacific Islanders also inherited Neandertal DNA. |
|
Apr 16, 2016 |
444 |
| Tailored Egyptian dress is the oldest ever found. |
Brief article |
Apr 2, 2016 |
198 |
| Psychology's replication crisis debated: analyses of reproducibility review reach conflicting conclusions. |
|
Apr 2, 2016 |
734 |
| Raw meat, tools drove facial evolution: advantages of slicing food led to H. erectus' small teeth, jaws. |
|
Apr 2, 2016 |
452 |
| Ancient engraved pendant found in England. |
Brief article |
Apr 2, 2016 |
251 |
| Easter Islanders made tools, not war: artifacts challenge idea that violence led to Rapa Nui collapse. |
|
Mar 19, 2016 |
545 |
| Babylonians used fancy geometry: ancients had remarkably modern way to track Jupiter. |
|
Mar 5, 2016 |
509 |
| New clues illuminate mysteries of ancient Egyptian portraits. |
Brief article |
Mar 5, 2016 |
224 |
| Massacre hints at early origin of war: 10,000-year-old skeletons show signs of lethal violence. |
|
Feb 20, 2016 |
570 |
| Mystery hominid settled Sulawesi: stone tools point to early colonization of remote island. |
|
Feb 6, 2016 |
596 |
| Iceman has the world's oldest tattoos. |
Brief article |
Jan 23, 2016 |
176 |
| Death pit deepens Neolithic mystery: ancient victims of violence add to debate over circular graves. |
|
Jan 23, 2016 |
709 |
| Over the, edge: what leads a person to move from thinking about suicide to taking action? |
|
Jan 9, 2016 |
3058 |
| Science forecast for 1966. |
Brief article |
Dec 26, 2015 |
151 |
| Arrival to South America pushed back: people reached Chile by 18,500 years ago, stone tools indicate. |
|
Dec 26, 2015 |
433 |
| Bees sweetened early farmers' lives: chemical traces on pottery point to broad use of wax, honey. |
|
Dec 12, 2015 |
512 |
| DNA puts Neandertal relatives in Siberia for 60,000 years. |
Brief article |
Dec 12, 2015 |
205 |
| Plagues plagued the Bronze Age: Yersinia pestis infected people long before Black Death. |
Report |
Nov 28, 2015 |
727 |
| Fossil offers clues to ape evolution: living apes may have arisen from gibbonlike primate. |
Report |
Nov 28, 2015 |
548 |
| DNA illuminates reverse migration: ancient genome points to Eurasian ancestry in Africa. |
|
Nov 14, 2015 |
416 |
| Before Europe, humans went to Asia: people reached China by 80,000 years ago, fossil teeth suggest. |
|
Nov 14, 2015 |
534 |
| Early globalization on display in history of Eurasian civilization. |
Book review |
Nov 14, 2015 |
432 |
| Oldest decapitated head in the Americas. |
Brief article |
Oct 31, 2015 |
212 |
| Bronze Age mummies found in Britain: microscopic investigation uncovers once-preserved skeletons. |
|
Oct 31, 2015 |
795 |
| Ancient hominid ears were tuned to high frequencies. |
Brief article |
Oct 31, 2015 |
193 |
| Oldest humanlike hand bone. |
Brief article |
Oct 17, 2015 |
223 |
| New species of hominid found: undated fossils from South Africa resemble genus Homo. |
|
Oct 3, 2015 |
748 |
| Psych studies fail replication test: experiment redos highlight problem with P value statistics. |
|
Oct 3, 2015 |
635 |
| Pottery clarifies route to Polynesia: New Guinea shards show ties between islanders, seafarers. |
|
Oct 3, 2015 |
532 |
| Chimps keep numbers high as forest losses mount. |
Brief article |
Oct 3, 2015 |
128 |
| Bones tell of 7,000-year-old massacre: mass grave fuels debate over demise of early farming culture. |
|
Sep 19, 2015 |
453 |
| Fired-up apes: chimps show their smarts and fuel an evolutionary debate. |
|
Sep 19, 2015 |
3354 |
| Monkey brain's folds surprising: Victoriapithecus fossil may alter primate evolution story. |
|
Aug 8, 2015 |
582 |
| DNA resolves Kennewick Man debate: ancient skeleton closely related to modern Native Americans. |
|
Jul 25, 2015 |
686 |
| Music to just about everyone's ears: statistical analysis finds globally shared rhythms, pitch changes. |
|
Jul 25, 2015 |
561 |
| Human face laugh lines traced to apes: chimps' expressions signal silent communication evolved early. |
|
Jul 11, 2015 |
329 |
| Trackers decipher ancient footprints: hunters help reconstruct behavior of early Europeans. |
|
Jul 11, 2015 |
1049 |
| A biologist takes aim at religion. |
Book review |
Jul 11, 2015 |
450 |
| Hominid family gets new member: East African species lived near Lucy's kind, discoverers say. |
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Jun 27, 2015 |
706 |
| Cold at heart: changing minds about how to treat criminal psychopaths. |
|
Jun 27, 2015 |
2943 |
| Earliest known stone tools unearthed: at 3.3 million years old, flakes, cores predate origin of Homo. |
Report |
Jun 13, 2015 |
740 |
| Bullying linked to poor mental health: being picked on worse threat than child abuse, study suggests. |
|
May 30, 2015 |
675 |
| Ritual cannibalism occurred in prehistoric England: archaeologists discover gnaw and butcher marks on 14,700-year-old human bones. |
|
May 30, 2015 |
613 |
| Beads suggest hunter-gatherers resisted farming in Northern Europe: culture clash may have delayed arrival of agriculture. |
|
May 16, 2015 |
474 |
| 'Little Foot' lived in same era as Lucy: new dating pushes back age of earliest South Africa hominids. |
|
May 2, 2015 |
613 |
| Early arrival for hominids in Greece: new data place human ancestors there by 206,000 years ago. |
|
May 2, 2015 |
477 |
| Kennewick man's bones reveal an ancient taste for seafood. |
Brief article |
May 2, 2015 |
123 |
| Footprints offer clues about daily hominid life. |
Brief article |
May 2, 2015 |
155 |
| Earliest evidence of humans living in rainforests. |
Brief article |
Apr 18, 2015 |
223 |
| Cache of eagle claws points to Neandertal jewelry-making: extinct human relative had ability to create symbolic objects 130,000 years ago, researchers argue. |
|
Apr 18, 2015 |
638 |
| Ring links Viking, Islamic civilizations: inscription, style and lack of wear point to ancient contact. |
|
Apr 18, 2015 |
356 |
| Fossil linked to origin of human genus: classification of 2.8-million-year-old jaw sparks controversy. |
|
Apr 4, 2015 |
523 |
| Reading the Stones: there is more than one way to tell the story of hominid evolution via ancient tools. |
|
Apr 4, 2015 |
3892 |
| 'The Invaders' sees dogs as key to modern humans' success. |
Book review |
Apr 4, 2015 |
387 |
| DNA foretells success in intervention: at-risk kids with stress-gene variant responded best to program. |
|
Mar 21, 2015 |
562 |
| Wheat reached England before farming. |
|
Mar 21, 2015 |
222 |
| Alexithymia\uh LEHK suh THY mee uh\n. |
Brief article |
Mar 7, 2015 |
164 |
| Earliest New World monkey unearthed: fossils suggest primates came to South America from Africa. |
|
Mar 7, 2015 |
400 |
| Scans push back origins of tool use: ancient fossils contain inner signs of humanlike hands. |
|
Feb 21, 2015 |
344 |
| Murals unveil Maya literary practices: discoveries peg ritual specialists as central to making books. |
|
Feb 21, 2015 |
586 |
| Fossil recasts history of first Europeans. |
Brief article |
Feb 21, 2015 |
246 |
| Ancient bone hand ax found in China. |
Brief article |
Feb 7, 2015 |
231 |
| Ancient Egyptian blue glass beads reached Scandinavia: chemical analysis extends range of bronze age trade. |
|
Jan 24, 2015 |
649 |
| Culture affects tones of voices: schizophrenia's hallucinations tend to positive in some places. |
|
Jan 24, 2015 |
561 |
| Ancient hominids engraved shells: over 400,000 years ago, H. erectus in Indonesia carved zigzags. |
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Dec 27, 2014 |
559 |
