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Science & Tech News tagged with anthropology

Ancient Hair Reveals Origins of Early Greenlanders
Science & Tech  (tags: culture, society, history, archeology, paleontology, anthropology, study, research, science, scientists, society, investigation, interesting, humans, environment, habitat, history, discovery, concept, ancient, archaeology, climate )


- 105 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
A clump of hair that lay frozen in the Greenland tundra for 4,000 years has yielded DNA from the earliest Arctic residents, and offers clues to their origins.
The Mild-Altering Role of Incense in Religion
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, study, world, anthropology, environment, culture, biology, religion, ceremonies, incense, sociology, physiology, spirituality, evolution )

J.
- 140 days ago - livescience.com
A team of international neuroscientists have announced that a component of the resin made from Boswellia trees, more commonly called Frankincense, biochemically relieves anxiety in mice, and presumably people.
Even Paleoanthropologists Shouldn't Judge Books By Their Covers.
Science & Tech  (tags: Anthropology, research, discovery, Dentistry, fossils, Paranthropus boisei, evolution )

J.
- 164 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Analysis of scratches on the teeth & other tooth wear reveal the pattern of eating for the Paranthropus boisei, aka "Nutcracker Man,"an ancient hominin that lived between 2.3 & 1.2 million yrs. ago,was more consistent with modern-day fruit-eating animals.
Schiller Relatives Exhumed to Identify Poet's Skull
Science & Tech  (tags: Anthropology, graves, poet, skulls, identification )

Ingrid
- 197 days ago - reuters.com
Anthropologists have exhumed the graves of Friedrich Schiller's family in an attempt to positively identify the skull of the German dramatist and poet and end a 180-year-old debate.
SPAIN: Archeological Dig Yields Ancient European
Science & Tech  (tags: Europe, Homo sapiens, archeology, anthropology, science, primatology, history, human evolution )

Rooibos
- 198 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Scientists have discovered the oldest human remains in western Europe.A jawbone and teeth discovered at the famous Atapuerca site in northern Spain have been dated between 1.1 and 1.2 million years old.
Tank-Like Armadillo Fossils Found in Andes
Science & Tech  (tags: chile, science, remains, Anthropology, fossils, armadillo )

Jacquelin
- 305 days ago - news.com.au
SCIENTISTS searching for fossils high in the Andes mountains in Chile have unearthed the remains of a tank-like mammal related to armadillos that grazed 18 million years ago. "It looks different than almost anything out on the landscape today. There re
Most Ancient Case of Tuberculosis Found in 500,000-Year-Old Human
Science & Tech  (tags: Anthropology, discovery, science, technology, humans, Homo erectus, health, research, study, interesting )

J.
- 310 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
This new found specimen of the human species,Homo erectus,suggests support for the theory that dark-skinned people who migrate northward from low, tropical latitudes produce less vitamin D,which can adversely affect the immune system as well the skeleton.
Neanderthal Child Tooth Growth Suggests Rapid Maturation
Science & Tech  (tags: science, Archaeology, Anthropology, research, scientists, tech, study, humans, discovery, cultures, early humans, Neanderthal, interesting )

J.
- 311 days ago - physorg.com
Scientists report evidence for a rapid developmental pattern in a 100,000 year old Belgian Neanderthal child (Homo neanderthalensis).
NEW FINDING: Chatty Cave Men? Me Neanderthal, Talk Just Fine
Science & Tech  (tags: Neanderthal, human evolution, speech, genes, anthropology, archeology )

Rooibos
- 359 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Neanderthals might have spoken just like humans do now, new genetic findings suggest. Neanderthals are humanity's closest extinct relatives. Since their discovery more than 150 years ago, researchers have found out they could make tools just like our ance
Primitive Man Used Makeup, Dined on Cooked Seafood
Science & Tech  (tags: interesting, humans, research, scientists, study, Anthropology, discovery, environment )

Michele
- 359 days ago - news.xinhuanet.com
It's possible that modern humans were culturally sophisticated from the start but found their niche at the sea side where much of the evidence has been washed away. Primitive Homo sapiens may have eaten seafood, used razor-sharp cutting tools and...
Million-Year-Old Human Tooth Found in Spain
Science & Tech  (tags: anthropology, tooth, ancestor, fossils )

Tony
- 468 days ago - news.yahoo.com
MADRID (AFP) - Spanish researchers on Friday said they had unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe.
"Hobbit" Was Own Species, Not Diseased Human, Brain Study Says
Science & Tech  (tags: Indonesia, Anthropology )

Karli
- 620 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
A tiny, hobbit-like human that lived on a remote Indonesian island 18,000 years ago was a member of its own unique species and was not a diseased human, according to a new study of the hominin's skull.
   

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