Rare, Late Pleistocene Human Remains in Japan Turn Out to be Bear Bones todayheadline
The Ushikawa man fossils found in the late 1950s turns out not to be bona fide.After the bones were discovered ...
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Medieval Solar Compasses May Have Guided Viking Sailors todayheadline
During their prime, the Vikings mastered the seas and went on to make wide-spanning voyages by boat. But how exactly ...
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How Viking and Germanic DNA Spread Through the Iron Age Migrations todayheadline
Back in the first millennium A.D., waves of human migration across Europe created an elaborate genetic puzzle that researchers have ...
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Autopsies Have A Long and Complicated History todayheadline
When a person dies of unknown causes, modern forensic pathologists might conduct a complete or partial autopsy. In some situations, ...
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Bronze Age Bones Indicate Violent Death and Possible Cannibalism todayheadline
Researchers in England uncovered the skeletal remains of 37 Bronze Age individuals, and further analysis indicated that not only were ...
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Chamber in Manot Cave May Be The Earliest Ancient Ritual Site in Southwest Asia todayheadline
A cave in Israel may have once been a ritualistic gathering site for early humans some 35,000 years ago, likely ...
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Canines Were Human Companions 2,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought todayheadline
Scientists discovered evidence that North Americans tried to tame or domesticate canines 12,000 years ago.Analyzing biomarkers in a canine fossil ...
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Two Different Early Human Species Walked the Same Lake 1.5 Million Years Ago todayheadline
About 1.5 million years ago, two different species of early man likely came within hours of passing each other on ...
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Genetic Analysis of Viking Settlers Challenges Historical Saga todayheadline
If you look at a map, it would appear obvious that the neighboring Norse folks settled both Iceland and the ...
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