Bone tools have been created by hominins for millions of years, with the earliest evidence for the manufacture of deliberately shaped bone tools dating to approximately 1.4 to 0.7 million years ago in Ethiopia. In Europe, ...
A new study published in PeerJ reveals that the teeth of South American sea lions (Otaria byronia) hold valuable clues about past population dynamics. Researchers from the Instituto de Biolog铆a de Organismos Marinos, the ...
Research led by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Ohio University has found evidence of hominin activity at a Romanian fossil site dating to at least 1.95 million years ago. This discovery pushes back the known ...
Babies were weaned earlier in cities in the Roman Empire than in smaller and more rural communities, according to a study of ancient teeth. Urban weaning patterns more closely hewed to guidelines from ancient Roman physicians, ...
A UAB study in collaboration with the UVic-UCC and the ALBA synchrotron concludes that the Iberian culture newborns buried within domestic spaces died of natural causes, such as complications during labor or premature births, ...
How do you find out the age of a wild animal? For some Australian marsupials, we have discovered you can tell from their teeth.
The Dental Anthropology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigaci贸n sobre la Evoluci贸n Humana (CENIEH) has published a paper in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology on the morphological differences between ...
Kilat, the largest living lizard at the Toronto Metro Zoo, like other members of his species (Varanus komodoensis), truly deserves to be called the Komodo dragon. His impressive size and the way he looks at you and tracks ...
Evidence from teeth reveals that vitamin D deficiency during childhood was likely a major issue in industrialized England, according to a study published January 31, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Anne Marie ...
The Dental Anthropology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigaci贸n sobre la Evoluci贸n Humana (CENIEH) has published a study in the journal Anthropological Science, in collaboration with the University of Bordeaux (France) ...
