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#New research shows climate was the key factor impacting the movement of the first farmers across Europe

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“#New research shows climate was the key factor impacting the movement of the first farmers across Europe” Credit: University of Roehampton The research, a collaboration between the University of Roehampton, the University of Cambridge and several other institutions, combined archeological data with palaeoclimatic reconstructions to show for the first time that climate dramatically impacted the…

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#New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization

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“#New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization” Jacob Lulewicz, lecturer in archaeology at Washington Universiity in St. Louis, studies southeastern/midwestern ethnohistory and archaeology including Indigenous-colonizer dynamics; social networks and sociopolitics. Credit: WUSTL In American history, we learn that the arrival of Spanish explorers led by Hernando de Soto in the 1500s was a watershed…

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#Hyksos, 15th Dynasty rulers of Ancient Egypt, were an internal takeover

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“#Hyksos, 15th Dynasty rulers of Ancient Egypt, were an internal takeover” Seal amulet with the name of the Hyksos pharoah Apophis. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0) The Hyksos, who ruled during the 15th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, were not foreign invaders, but a group who rose to power from within, according to a…

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#New Mygatt-Moore quarry research leads to prehistoric climate finds

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“#New Mygatt-Moore quarry research leads to prehistoric climate finds” Decomposition of dinosaurian remains inferred by invertebrate traces on vertebrate bone reveal new insights into Late Jurassic ecology, decay, and climate in western Colorado Credit: Brian Engh Top predator dinosaurs like the Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus devouring dinosaur remains isn’t all that surprising, but the smaller creatures…

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#Growing up trilobite

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“#Growing up trilobite” Slabs at the excavation site in western Utah with circles indicating the locations of Elrathia kingii fossils, some of which can be as small as half a millimeter long. Credit: M. Hopkins/AMNH If you’ve ever held a trilobite fossil, seen one in a classroom, or walked by one in a store, chances…

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#New chemical analyses: What did Danes and Italians in the Middle Ages have in common?

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“#New chemical analyses: What did Danes and Italians in the Middle Ages have in common?” The Montella Chapel near Naples, southern Italy, was built in the 1620s when Giovanni Bernardino Iannelli donated a large sum to the monastery. It has been excavated since 2007. Credit: University of Southern Denmark In the 1600s, two private chapels…

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#29,000 years of Aboriginal history

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“#29,000 years of Aboriginal history” Midden shell exposed on the Pike cliff line on the River Murray. Credit: Flinders University The known timeline of the Aboriginal occupation of South Australia’s Riverland region has been vastly extended by new research led by Flinders University in collaboration with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation (RMMAC). Radiocarbon…

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#Multi-disciplinary study provides evidence of forced migration by pre-colonial Incas

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“#Multi-disciplinary study provides evidence of forced migration by pre-colonial Incas” Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2005965117 A team of researchers with members from several institutions in the U.S., one in the U.K. and one in Peru, has found evidence of forced migration by pre-colonial Incas. In their paper published in…

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#The settlement of Europe could be the result of several imigration waves by a single population

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“#The settlement of Europe could be the result of several imigration waves by a single population” Montmaurin-La Niche mandible. Credit: M. Martínez de Pinillos The Dental Anthropology Group of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), in collaboration with the paleoanthropologist Amélie Vialet of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) in Paris,…

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#Homo erectus hand ax found in East Africa

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“#Homo erectus hand ax found in East Africa” Credit: Berhane Asfaw, University of Tokyo A team of researchers from Japan, Hong Kong and Ethiopia has found a hand ax that they believe was made by a possibly direct human ancestor in what is now modern Ethiopia. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National…