2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (722+ words) Newswise — Anthropology Professor and Department Chair Britney Kyle, Ph.D., spent her sabbatical sharing her expertise in examining human skeletons with students and faculty from the University of Prishtina in Kosovo, a country in Southeast Europe. During a five-week partnership…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (605+ words) Matthew T. Boulanger, Christy Bednar and Eric Weinberg at SMU’s Archaeology Research Collections lab. On his first day volunteering at SMU’s Archaeology Research Collections (ARC) lab this summer, high school student Eric Weinberg met Christy Bednar, a longtime volunteer with a…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (323+ words) A research team led by Iowa State University botanists confirmed cotton was domesticated from a diverse population native to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a potentially fruitful target for finding genetic traits that could strengthen the world’s most important fiber crop....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (378+ words) Newswise — Researchers have demonstrated a nondestructive way to collect cellular material from historical parchment manuscripts, allowing them to conduct genetic analyses that offer new insights into everything from trade routes to agricultural practices dating back 1,300 years – without harming the valuable…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (467+ words) Thomas Schoenemann, Professor of Cognitive Science and Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington, is the lead author of the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, with co-authors Ralph Holloway…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (348+ words) Faculty researchers and archaeology students at the University of West Florida have uncovered artifacts linked to multiple pre-Columbian Native American cultures during a recent archaeological survey on UWF’s Pensacola campus. “The condition of the site is significant due in part…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (112+ words) Medieval medicine was smarter than you think - and weirdly similar to TikTok trends, according to new research from Binghamton University. Medieval Medicine Was Smarter Than You Think! Connecting Research and Experts with Journalists Unlock Your Access to Newswise Research News…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago   (154+ words) Daniel Fernandes preparing to take a sample. The discovery builds on a reanalysis of a well-known Upper Paleolithic burial discovered in 1963 at Grotta del Romito in southern Italy, which has long puzzled researchers. Unusual skeletal features and the circumstances of…...

7+ mon, 6+ day ago   (500+ words) Professor Zeresenay Alemseged demonstrates how the fragments of the newly discovered mandible specimen fit together. Top: Multiple views of MLP-3000-1, the newly discovered Paranthropus partial left mandible and molar crown. Bottom: MLP-3000-1 in side-by-side comparison with mandible fossils from other…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (363+ words) [Newswise image]New evidence from South China reveals how early humans adapted to environmental transformations during the Late Pleistocene. Using pollen, isotopic, and published lithic evidence from the Sandinggai site (96.6-13.3 ka BP), researchers quantitatively reconstructed the region's vegetation and climate…...