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History / Archeology - 13.05.2016
New archaeological method finds children were skilled ceramists during the Bronze Age
New archaeological method finds children were skilled ceramists during the Bronze Age
Artisanal interpretation of ceramics from the Bronze Age shows that a nine-year-old child could be a highly skilled artisan. This was one of the discoveries presented in a new thesis from Lund University. The thesis explores how an artisanal perspective can contribute to archaeology by providing new insights into archaeological artefacts.

History / Archeology - 11.05.2016
Archaeologists find world’s oldest ground-edge axe in Australia »
This is the earliest evidence of hafted axes in the world. Nowhere else in the world do you get axes at this date. Archaeologists from The Australian National University (ANU) have unearthed fragments from the edge of the world's oldest-known ground-edge axe, found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

History / Archeology - 11.05.2016
Archaeologists find world’s oldest axe in Australia »
This is the earliest evidence of hafted axes in the world. Nowhere else in the world do you get axes at this date. Archaeologists from The Australian National University (ANU) have unearthed fragments from the edge of the world's oldest-known axe, found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Lead archeologist Professor Sue O'Connor said the axe dates back between 46,000 and 49,000 years, around the time people first arrived on the continent.

History / Archeology - Health - 04.05.2016
Trauma exposure linked to African-Americans, criminal justice system
ANN ARBOR-Frequent traumatic exposure to crime can take a toll on most people. For African-Americans, trauma significantly increases their odds of being arrested, jailed or imprisoned, a new study shows. In addition, post-traumatic stress disorder also contributes to their involvement in the criminal justice system.

History / Archeology - Life Sciences - 20.04.2016
The history of orangutans in human culture »
Orangutan's are so similar to humans that there is now a strong movement to give them qualified human rights. Image: Travis Isaacs, Flickr. They've been known to show compassion, there's a video of an orangutan rescuing a duckling that was in difficulty. That's something pretty special. The similarities between orangutans and humans, and the argument that primates should be given their own form of human rights, will be put under the microscope in a presentation at The Australian National University (ANU).

Life Sciences - History / Archeology - 07.04.2016
Deer to the islands
A study by Cardiff University researchers has shed new light on the origins of the Scottish Red Deer. For many years archaeologists have found ancient red deer remains on the distant Scottish isles. Evidence from tombs and houses dating from around 5,000 years ago show that humans exploited these iconic animals for food and resources.

History / Archeology - Administration - 04.04.2016
Ancient burial ground discovery adds to jar mystery »
One theory is that they were used to decompose the bodies. Later, after the flesh was removed the remains may have been buried around the jars. Archaeologists from The Australian National University (ANU) have unearthed an ancient burial ground at one of Asia's most mysterious sites - the Plain of Jars in Laos.

Life Sciences - History / Archeology - 23.03.2016
Novel collagen fingerprinting identifies a Neanderthal bone among 2,000 fragments
Scientists from the universities of Oxford and Manchester have used a new molecular fingerprinting technique to identify one Neanderthal bone from around 2,000 tiny bone fragments. All the tiny pieces of bone were recovered from a key archaeological site, Denisova Cave in Russia, with the remaining fragments found to be from animal species like mammoths, woolly rhino, wolf and reindeer.

History / Archeology - Economics - 17.03.2016
From Pulp to Fiction: our love affair with paper
It may seem strange to describe paper as technology, but its arrival in England in about 1300 was a pivotal moment in cultural history. That story is being pieced together for the first time in a new project that also promises to reveal much about why some innovations succeed where others fail Paper became a pivotal technology for a subsequent explosion in the transmission of knowledge.

Physics - History / Archeology - 10.03.2016
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The "great smoky dragon" of Quantum Physics
Physicists around Anton Zeilinger have, for the first time, evaluated the almost 100-year long history of quantum delayed-choice experiments - from the theoretical beginnings with Albert Einstein to the latest research works in the present. The extensive study now appeared in the renowned journal "Reviews of Modern Physics".

History / Archeology - Social Sciences - 10.03.2016
First non-utilitarian weapons found in the Arabian Peninsula
First non-utilitarian weapons found in the Arabian Peninsula
An exceptional collection of bronze weapons dating from the Iron Age II (900-600 BC) has been uncovered near Adam, in the Sultanate of Oman. The remains were discovered scattered on the ground in a building belonging to what is thought to be a religious complex, during excavations carried out by the French archaeological mission in central Oman.

History / Archeology - Life Sciences - 02.03.2016
Macabre variety of Iron Age burial practices
Research reveals the diverse and unusual ways dead people were treated more than 2,000 years ago Unusual and macabre burial practices used by Iron Age Britons have been discovered by researchers from the Natural History Museum and Cardiff University.

Life Sciences - History / Archeology - 22.02.2016
Ancient DNA reveals phylogeny of prehistoric armadillos
Ancient DNA reveals phylogeny of prehistoric armadillos
Before the last ice age, South America had an impressive array of megafauna including the megatherium, a sloth the size of an elephant, and a wide variety of glyptodonts, a group of imposing armored mammals. Glyptodonts have been traditionally considered to represent a phylogenetically distinct group close to the cingulates (armadillos).

History / Archeology - Earth Sciences - 19.02.2016
Most complete Bronze Age wheel to date found at Must Farm near Peterborough
The largest and best-preserved Bronze Age wheel in Britain has been uncovered at Must Farm, a site described as Peterborough's Pompeii. The wheel will extend our understanding of early technologies and transport systems. The discovery of the wheel demonstrates that the inhabitants of this watery landscapes had links to the dry land beyond the river.

History / Archeology - 12.02.2016
Gravitational waves discovery a monumental moment in history, Dr Katie Mack tells Sky News
Albert Einstein has been finally proven right 100 years after predicting the existence of gravitational waves, thanks to the international LIGO experiment. Speaking with Sky News' Aaron Young on Friday, 12 February, astrophysicist Dr Katie Mack says it will set off an avalanche of scientific discoveries in the years to come.

History / Archeology - 08.02.2016
Signs of early settlement in the Nordic region date back to the cradle of civilisation
Signs of early settlement in the Nordic region date back to the cradle of civilisation
Osteologist Adam Boethius (fourth from the left) at his excavation in Blekinge, Sweden. Adam has found the oldest storage of fermentet fish indicating the Nordic prehistory started earlier than previously thought. The discovery of the world's oldest storage of fermented fish in southern Sweden could rewrite the Nordic prehistory with findings indicating a far more complex society than previously thought.

Life Sciences - History / Archeology - 08.02.2016
New lineage of electric fish discovered in Gabon
Analysis of three unusual electric fish specimens collected over a 13-year period in Gabon led researchers at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates (CUMV) to describe two new species and an entirely new genus. The discoveries are reported in the Feb. 8 issue of the journal ZooKeys. Preserved DNA from the three specimens sequenced at Cornell University revealed they were close relatives but didn't belong within known genus within the family of electric fish, called Mormyridae .

History / Archeology - Law - 29.01.2016
Georgian jailbirds and celebrity highwaymen shaped modern Britain, say historians
Eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen helped shape the evolution of modern justice and welfare systems, according to new evidence uncovered by historians. London Lives, a landmark project led by Professor Bob Shoemaker from the University of Sheffield and Professor Tim Hitchcock from the University of Sussex, has uncovered a mass of extraordinary new evidence which reveals how the lives of thousands of 18th-century poor and criminal Londoners helped shape modern Britain.

History / Archeology - 25.01.2016
Archaeological project discovers 3,400-year-old family made out of sandstone in Egypt
Archaeological project discovers 3,400-year-old family made out of sandstone in Egypt
A research group recently found six statues dating back 3,400 years in two shrines by the sandstone quarry of Gebel el Silsila, Egypt. Photo: The Gebel el Silsila Project 2015. It was just before Christmas when the only Swedish-led archaeological project in Egypt, run by Maria Nilsson from Lund University, made the unique discovery.

History / Archeology - Earth Sciences - 21.01.2016
Oldest battlefield discovered in Kenya »
Scientists have uncovered human fossils from a horrific slaughter on the shores of a lake, which they believe may be one of the oldest known examples of warfare. The 10,000 year-old find, at Nataruk near Lake Turkana in Kenya, included five skeletons with crushed skulls and five with seemingly fatal arrow injuries.