Using evidence found in two Neanderthal teeth from southeastern France, researchers from the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report the earliest evidence of lead exposure in an extinct human-like species from 250,000 years ago. This study is the first to report lead exposure in ...
The history of Vikings has always been a topic of curiosity for the Western world. Over the past several months, archaeologists have discovered new remnants of Viking culture that provide a better understanding of this fascinating civilization. The longship Archaeologists recently unearthed a very rare Viking longship in Ostfold County of Southeastern Norway. The vessel ...
The study by a team of geographers and archaeologists from UCL and King’s College London, published in Nature Communications, suggests that early pastoralists in North Africa combined detailed knowledge of the environment with newly domesticated species to deal with the long-term drying trend. This delayed the onset of the Sahara Desert by 500 years. It is thought ...
Tulane University researchers, documenting the discovery of dozens of ancient lowland maya civilization cities in northern Guatemala through the use of jungle-penetrating Lidar (light detection and ranging) technology, have published their results in the prestigious journal Science. The article includes the work of Marcello Canuto, director of the Middle American Research Institute at Tulane, and Francisco ...
India is often criticized for having a patriarchal society by liberals. Interestingly, there is a tribe in India that follows matriarchal practices where women hold a higher status than men. And though some feminists might call it a win for women, the fact of the matter is that many men are terribly discriminated against in ...
Archaeologists from the University of Western Australia working with Traditional Custodians from the Birriliburru Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) have recovered evidence that aboriginals lived in the Australian arid zone 50,000 years ago. This is 10,000 years earlier than previously understood for the interior deserts of Australia, and among some of the earliest known evidence of ...
Skin wrinkles and hair loss are hallmarks of aging. What if they could be reversed? Keshav Singh, Ph.D., and colleagues have done just that, in a mouse model developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. When a mutation leading to mitochondrial dysfunction is induced, the mouse develops wrinkled skin and extensive, visible hair loss ...
After just two weeks, an exhibition of plastinated corpses entitled “Mystery of the Human Body,” organized by Mega Vina, a South Korean company specializing in promoting and developing exchange programs in Vietnam, has been suspended. The exhibition took place in Ho Chi Minh City and was scheduled to be held from June 21 to December ...
Ancient tools and bones discovered in China by archaeologists suggest early humans left Africa and arrived in Asia earlier than previously thought. The artifacts show that our earliest human ancestors colonized East Asia over 2 million years ago. They were found by a Chinese team that was led by Professor Zhaoyu Zhu of the Chinese ...
Even with a highly skilled neurosurgeon, the most effective anesthesia, and all the other advances of modern medicine, most of us would cringe at the thought of undergoing cranial surgery today. After all, who needs a hole in their head? Yet for thousands of years, trepanation — the act of scraping, cutting, or drilling an ...
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