Archaeologist Sturt Manning (Cornell University) narrows on date of Thera eruption; the study has been published in PLoS ONE
India’s troubled history of monsoon droughts of the last millennium revealed by stalagmites and historical documentary sources
A new study has revealed the earliest known evidence of the use of the hallucinogenic drug opium, and psychoactive drugs in general, in the world
Investigating the diploic veins in skulls with premature suture fusion: a new study has been published on the Journal of Morphology
Byzantine Solar Eclipse records illuminate obscure History of Earth’s rotation; a new study has been published on the subject in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
What ancient dung reveals about Epipaleolithic animal tending: a study about Abu Hureyra, published on PLoS One
Archaeological excavations in Romania reveal a possible ‘projectile workshop’ of early Homo sapiens, which may have changed their subsistence strategies compared to Neanderthals
The Upper Palaeolithic rock art of Côa Valley and Siega Verde lights a faint match to understand our history as humans
Scientific ‘detective work’ reveals South American mummies were murdered; the study was published on Frontiers in Medicine
An article published in Science shows the origins of donkey domestication Africa in 5,000 B.C.E, around the time when the Sahara became the desert region we know today
