Tag: Archaeology
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Nobel Prizes and ancient DNA – an explainer
The Nobel Prize was awarded to Svante Pääbo on 3 October for groundbreaking research based on ancient DNA. But what exactly is it and how does it impact our knowledge of human evolution and history?
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A Brief History of Chickens
New research shows that the chicken was domesticated thousands of years earlier than previously supposed. But how and where did domestication first happen — and what’s the future of chickens?
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Aborigines Were Part of a Pacific Trade Network 3,000 Years Ago
New archaeological evidence is uprooting traditional ideas about ancient Australia’s isolation from the rest of the world, showing that Aboriginal islanders were trading with islands across the Pacific 3,000 years ago.
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Africa Was Interconnected 50,000 Years Ago
A newly released study suggests that ancient Africans were incredibly interconnected culturally, socially and economically 50,000 years ago.
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