Anthropology and Archaeology News

All cattle are descended from as few as 80 animals that were domesticated from wild ox in the Near East some 10,500 years ago, according to a new genetic study

he water flowing through Venice's famous canals laps at buildings a little higher every year -- and not only because of a rising sea level

House mice (Mus musculus) happily live wherever there are humans. When populations of humans migrate the mice often travel with them

A wooden statue of a king, a private offering chapel, a monumental building and remains of over 80 animal mummies

Evidence uncovered during research conducted in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio late last year appears to support the theory that a lost Leonardo da Vinci painting existed on the east wall of the Hall of the 500, behind Giorgio Vasari's mural

A professor of classics is translating and analyzing ancient inscriptions from columns, stones, tombs, floors, and mosaics of ancient Israel to uncover the life of the common men -- and women -- of antiquity

Until now, it was presumed that the last glacial period denuded the Scandinavian landscape of trees until a gradual return of milder weather began and melted away the ice cover some 9000 years ago

Cut marks found on Ice Age bones indicate that humans in what is now Ohio hunted or scavenged animal meat earlier than previously known

An international tea, including a Cardiff University researcher who previously found evidence of Earth's earliest tree, has gone one step further

It has been sought for centuries but remained a mystery, still out of reach. Now an expert has pinpointed a site that could be Atahualpa's resting place: the last Inca emperor's tomb