20+ hour, 10+ min ago   (462+ words) The ancient town comes with pyramids, buildings, stone columns, and a ball field. The jungles of the Balamak" ecological reserve on the Yucatan Peninsula recently offered up a remarkable look at an ancient Maya city, one likely to be rather…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (374+ words) The community that lived in the Grotta della Monaca caves had its own unique mix of ancestry. The remains of a distinct Bronze Age community found in the Grotta della Monaca caves within the Pollino massif in Calabria, Italy, offered…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (260+ words) In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor in South Africa's Sterkfontein Caves. Thought to be between 3 million and 1.95 million years old, skull StW 573or "Little Foot," as it was nicknamedwas assigned…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (473+ words) How burned artifacts offer a window into the dismantling of a dynasty. Archaeologists discovered clues to a fire in Guatemala from between 733 and 881 AD that they say represents a key turning point in Maya rule'a very public turning point. The…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (177+ words) In the mountains of Tibet, adaptations to punishing conditions, including higher oxygen levels and unique gene proteins, are recent evidence of evolutionary adaptations. Endless mountain expanses that seem to pierce the heavens make Tibet one of the most breathtaking places…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (322+ words) Welcome to the family. Although only one species of hominin (a tribe of the subfamily Homininae) exists on the planet today'good ole Homo sapiens'the human family, throughout more geologically-recent Earth history, was comprised of a complex tableaux of members. And…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (543+ words) Google Translate isn't going to help here. There's a new language in town. Well, actually, it's ancient, and experts can't even read it yet. But they're excited to find out more. Archaeologists discovered a basalt tablet about the size of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (283+ words) An ancient group from central Argentina held on to their DNA, even with the exchange of culture and language. "[Our findings suggest] that the ancestry component represented by [the Jes's Mar'a individual] is the main Native American lineage in the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (29+ words) While more evidence is needed to link paleo-Americans to Japan, it is possible that they came by boat instead of crossing the Bering Land Bridge as previously thought....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (350+ words) In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking. A 4.4-million-year-old female skeleton named Ardi may answer that question. Predating even the iconic Lucy by a million years, she belongs to the species Ardipithecus…...