[ad_1] Newswise — “Horses have been part of us since long before other cultures came to our lands, and we are a part of them,” states...
[ad_1] Newswise — The researchers discovered evidence of horse riding by studying the remains of human skeletons found in burial mounds called kurgans, which were between 4500-5000...
[ad_1] Newswise — Some cities only last a century or two, while others last for a thousand years or more. Often, there aren’t clear records left...
[ad_1] Newswise — If the emergence of mechanically propelled weapons in prehistory is commonly perceived as one of the hallmarks of the advance of modern human...
[ad_1] Newswise — Along the shores of Africa’s Lake Victoria in Kenya roughly 2.9 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever...
[ad_1] Descriptions and phrases used in the Revelation of John are similar in terminology to those appearing on curse tablets produced in antiquity and the associated...
[ad_1] Newswise — New research has revealed that the process of ‘peopling’ the entire continent of Sahul — the combined mega continent that joined Australia with...
[ad_1] Newswise — Around 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic revolution radically changed the economy, diet and structure of the first human societies in the Fertile Crescent...
[ad_1] Newswise — A short biography of pioneering scientist Mary Anning, written in the final ten years of her life, has been made public for the...
[ad_1] Newswise — BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The length of a specific generation can tell us a lot about the biology and social organization of humans. Now,...
[ad_1] Newswise — More than 500 years ago in the midwestern Guatemalan highlands, Maya people bought and sold goods with far less oversight from their rulers...
[ad_1] Newswise — A new study shows that the Bering Land Bridge, the strip of land that once connected Asia to Alaska, emerged far later during...
[ad_1] Newswise — Analysis of more than 1,200 vessels from hunter-gatherer sites has shown that pottery-making techniques spread vast distances over a short period of time...
[ad_1] Newswise — Modern humans evolutionarily split from our chimpanzee ancestors nearly 7 million years ago, yet we are continuing to evolve. 155 new genes have...
[ad_1] Newswise — ST. LOUIS – Atria Larson, Ph.D., associate professor of Medieval Christianity at Saint Louis University, has been awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant through...
[ad_1] Newswise — Ancient owl-shaped slate engraved plaques, dating from around 5,000 years ago in the Iberian Peninsula, may have been created by children as toys,...
[ad_1] Newswise — DURHAM, N.C. — A team of Duke researchers has identified a group of human DNA sequences driving changes in brain development, digestion and...
[ad_1] Newswise — Capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) are among only a few primates that use tools in day-to-day activities. In the Cerrado and Caatinga, they use stones...
[ad_1] Newswise — An interdisciplinary team headed by archeologists Dr. Mariachiara Franceschini of the University of Freiburg and Paul P. Pasieka of the University of Mainz has discovered a previously...
[ad_1] Newswise — Researchers at the University of Nottingham have solved an important piece of the animal evolution puzzle, after a new study revealed that our...