Archaeology - Science News
2024年10月23日 · Archaeology A digital exam reels in engraved scenes of Stone Age net fishing Nearly 16,000-year-old portrayals of fish surrounded by nets had evaded detection until a new technique took ...
Human brains found at archaeological sites are surprisingly well …
2024年3月19日 · Naturally preserved brains, it turns out, aren’t so rare after all, Morton-Hayward, of the University of Oxford, and colleagues report March 20 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The ...
Lidar reveals the oldest and biggest Maya structure yet found
June 3, 2020 at 11:00 am. Ancient Maya society got off to a monumentally fast start around 3,000 years ago. Excavations and airborne mapping at a previously unknown site in Mexico, called Aguada ...
Satellites are transforming how archaeologists study the past
2019年8月4日 · Henry Holt and Co., $30. The term “space archaeology” may conjure up images of astronauts hunting for artifacts from little green men, but the field is much more down to Earth. Space ...
A tour of ‘Four Lost Cities’ reveals modern ties to ancient people
2021年3月11日 · A tour of ‘Four Lost Cities’ reveals modern ties to ancient people. Annalee Newitz’s book explores what drives humans toward an urban life — and what might send us away. An archaeological ...
King Tut’s tomb has secrets to reveal 100 years after its discovery
November 2, 2022 at 7:00 am. One hundred years ago, archaeologist Howard Carter stumbled across the tomb of ancient Egypt’s King Tutankhamun. Carter’s life was never the same. Neither was the ...
An old perfume bottle reveals what some ancient Romans smelled …
June 11, 2023 at 7:00 am. A surprisingly well-preserved perfume bottle is providing a rare olfactory window to ancient Rome — and letting in a familiar smell. Chemical analyses of the contents ...
Anthropology - Science News
2024年9月18日 · Ancient primates’ unchipped teeth hint that they ate mostly fruit. Of more than 400 teeth collected, just 21 were chipped, suggesting that early primate diets were soft on their choppers. By ...
Lasers reveal ancient urban sprawl hidden in the Amazon - Science …
May 25, 2022 at 11:00 am. A massive urban landscape that contained interconnected campsites, villages, towns and monumental centers thrived in the Amazon rainforest more than 600 years ago. In ...
Textile archaeologists weave a tapestry of the past with ancient …
2019年8月28日 · Textile archaeologists use ancient tools to weave a tapestry of the past. From clay artifacts, scientists learn how fabrics were made long ago. Ancient art depicting female textile workers, as on ...