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An international team of scientists have revealed a new species of ichthyosaur (a dolphin-like marine reptile from the age of dinosaurs) from Iraq, which revolutionises our understanding of the evolution and extinction of these ancient marine... 
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A joint team from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Office for Cultural Relics Administration of Daoxian County, unearthed five hominin...
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The so-called Elephant's Tomb in the Roman necropolis of Carmona (Seville, Spain) was not always used for burials.
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The search for ever deeper relationships among the World’s languages is bedeviled by the fact that most words evolve too rapidly to preserve evidence of their ancestry beyond 5,000 to 9,000 y. On the other hand, quantitative modeling indicates that some “ultraconserved” words exist that might be used to find evidence for deep linguistic relationships beyond that time barrier. Here we use a statistical model, which takes into account the frequency with which words are used in common everyday speech, to predict the existence of a set of such highly conserved words among seven language families of Eurasia postulated to form a linguistic superfamily that evolved from a common ancestor around 15,000 y ago. We derive a dated phylogenetic tree of this proposed superfamily with a time-depth of ∼14,450 y, implying that some frequently used words have been retained in related forms since the end of the last ice age. Words used more than once per 1,000 in everyday speech were 7- to 10-times more likely to show deep ancestry on this tree. Our results suggest a remarkable fidelity in the transmission of some words and give theoretical justification to the search for features of language that might be preserved across wide spans of time and geography.
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Similar rock paintings have previously been found in the Beşparmak Mountains, Bafa Lake and its environs, all of which are located in an area divided between Muğla’s Milas district and Aydın’s Koçarlı and Söke districts.
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Three grinding stones from Shizitan Locality 14 (ca. 23,000–19,500 calendar years before present) in the middle Yellow River region were subjected to usewear and residue analyses to investigate human adaptation during the last glacial maximum (LGM) period, when resources were generally scarce and plant foods may have become increasingly important in the human diet. The results show that these tools were used to process various plants, including Triticeae and Paniceae grasses, Vigna beans, Dioscorea opposita yam, and Trichosanthes kirilowii snakegourd roots. Tubers were important food resources for Paleolithic hunter–gatherers, and Paniceae grasses were exploited about 12,000 y before their domestication. The long tradition of intensive exploitation of certain types of flora helped Paleolithic people understand the properties of these plants, including their medicinal uses, and eventually led to the plants' domestication. This study sheds light on the deep history of the broad spectrum subsistence strategy characteristic of late Pleistocene north China before the origins of agriculture in this region.
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Desde sus orígenes más remotos, los Homo sapiens siempre ha intervenido de un modo u otro en su entorno, lo que se acrecienta con la aparición de la agricultura y el sedentarismo durante el Neolíti...
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El cerebro de los neandertales estaba adaptado para dotarles de una mejor capacidad de visión, según los resultados de una nueva investigación. Aunque el cerebro de los neandertales era similar en ...
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Le temple fait partie du site archéologique connu sous le nom de Teotihuacan ("Cité des Dieux"), qui est bien connu pour ses nombreux bâtiments et pyramides.
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El museo Pergamon de Berlín ofrece a los visitantes un atisbo de lo que quizás fue la primera verdadera ciudad del mundo, en una nueva exhibición que rastrea la antigua historia de Uruk. Los artefa...
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La secuenciación de restos de ADN encontrados en cuarenta esqueletos ha permitido trazar el primer árbol genealógico de Europa. El trabajo publicado en Nature Communications permite conocer mediant...
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El análisis de esqueletos humanos hallados en Alemania permitió a un equipo internacional de científicos descifrar complejos acontecimientos prehistóricos que dieron forma a las poblaciones europeas modernas.
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University of Alberta-led research reveals that Microraptor, a small flying dinosaur was a complete hunter, able to swoop down and pickup fish as well as its previously known prey of birds and tree dwelling mammals.
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Des restes fragmentaires néandertaliens ont été découverts par une équipe franco-grecque en Grèce. "Jusqu’à récemment, on en savait très peu sur la préhistoire ancienne de la Grèce, a avoué à Live Science la paléoanthropologue Katerina Harvati, principalement parce que les recherches archéologiques dans le pays se concentrent sur les périodes classiques et plus récentes. La Grèce se trouve pourtant directement sur l’une des routes les plus probables de dispersion depuis l’Afrique, via le Proche-Orient, des premiers humains et hominidés en Europe. De plus, le pays se situe au cœur d’une des trois péninsules méditerranéennes de l’Europe, ce qui en fait un refuge pour les espèces végétales et animales, et donc aussi humaines, durant la période glaciaire."
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A small village near Dharmapuri has been found to be archaeologically significant as historians have revealed that it has been inhabited since the Neolithic age, about 10,000 years ago. Historians, who have been studying inscriptions and tools found in the area, are of the opinion that Modhur, situated about fifteen kilo metres from Dharmapuri town, was highly civilised and was most probably the capital for the Athiyaman kingdom. Stone hammers, grinding stones, rubbing stones, stone balls, and a terracotta statue of the mother goddess were excavated in the village.
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Un ancien alignement astronomique dans le sud du Pérou a été découvert par des chercheurs entre une pyramide, deux lignes de pierres et le soleil couchant au solstice d'hiver.
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The discovery pushes back the roots of agriculture in China by 12,000 years. The global emergence of similar practices around 23,000 years ago hints that agriculture evolved independently around the world, perhaps as a response to climate change. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-agriculture-china-years.html#jCpThe discovery pushes back the roots of agriculture in China by 12,000 years. The global emergence of similar practices around 23,000 years ago hints that agriculture evolved independently around the world, perhaps as a response to climate change. (Phys.org) —The discovery pushes back the roots of agriculture in China by 12,000 years. The global emergence of similar practices around 23,000 years ago hints that agriculture evolved independently around the world, perhaps as a response to climate change. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-agriculture-china-years.html#jCp(Phys.org) —The discovery pushes back the roots of agriculture in China by 12,000 years. The global emergence of similar practices around 23,000 years ago hints that agriculture evolved independently around the world, perhaps as a response to climate change. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-agriculture-china-years.html#jCp(Phys.org) —The discovery pushes back the roots of agriculture in China by 12,000 years. The global emergence of similar practices around 23,000 years ago hints that agriculture evolved independently around the world, perhaps as a response to climate change. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-agriculture-china-years.html#jCp
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Una scoperta destinata a far riscrivere i libri di storia è al centro di uno degli incontri più interessanti che si terranno a Finale Ligure durante la sesta edizione della Festa dell’Inquietudine (31 maggio – 2 giugno 2013, Complesso Monumentale di Santa Caterina, Finalborgo). A sottolineare l’eccezionalità dell’evento, sabato 1 giugno, alle ore 14,45, la presenza di Klaus Schmidt, Direttore degli scavi di Göbekli Tepe, sito archeologico che si trova in Turchia, risalente all’inizio del Neolitico o alla fine del Mesolitico. L’illustre archeologo tedesco sarà a colloquio con Roberto Maggi, funzionario della Soprintendenza per i beni archeologici della Liguria.
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Desde sus orígenes más remotos, los Homo sapiens siempre ha intervenido de un modo u otro en su entorno, lo que se acrecienta con la aparición de la agricultura y el sedentarismo durante el Neolítico. Evaluar el impacto de este hecho sobre los cambios en la riqueza y la diversidad de los micromamíferos de la Península Ibérica durante el Pleistoceno superior-Holoceno, ha sido el objetivo de una investigación basada en el análisis de más de 3.000 individuos micromamíferos, entre ellos los hallados en Cueva Portalón y Mirador en la Sierra de Atapuerca.
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Researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have spent many years studying the remains of a Stone Age community in Karleby outside the town of Falköping, Sweden.
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The Maya civilization is well-known for its elaborate temples, sophisticated writing system, and mathematical and astronomical developments, yet the civilization's origins remain something of a mystery.
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A mysterious event radically reshaped the genetic landscape of Europe, new research finds.
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Australia was first settled by between 1,000 and 3,000 humans around 50,000 years ago, but the population crashed during the Ice Age before recovering to a peak of some 1.2 million people around five centuries ago, a study said on Wednesday.
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