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Investigators suggest in the conclusions of a new research that our Stone Age ancestors may have been the first to develop the bodily traits necessary for long runs, including spring-loaded heel bones. According to the team behind the work, hominids living at the same time, such as Neanderthals, did not feature this ... |
4 February 2011
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New discoveries related to the route taken by our Stone Age ancestors to leave Africa reveal that they also traveled through Arabia, rather than through the near and middle East, as originally discovered.The thing that makes these findings so important is that they push back the date of the first substantial human mi... |
28 January 2011
04:21 GMT |
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In a recent investigation, researchers showed that it was changes in the brains of hominids living in the Stone Age that allowed for them to start creating more complex tools. For many years, historians and anthropologists have been wondering as to what was it exactly that allowed our ancestors living in the Stone Ag... |
4 November 2010
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Analysis of artifacts dating back to the Stone Age have revealed that our ancestors most likely ate a rather balanced diet, and not just meat, as originally proposed. Experts believed until now that ancient hominids used a prehistoric version of the Atkins diet, which avoids the use of carbohydrates such as sugar,&nb... |
19 October 2010
04:00 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers at the Uppsala University and Stockholm University has recently discovered, following a new study, that the ancient inhabitants of Scandinavia were lactose-intolerant. The people living in what are now Sweden, Norway and Finland tended to have a really hard time digesting milk proteins,... |
1 April 2010
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African hunter-gatherers were apparently not the savage bunch many anthropologists today paint them to be. Long before the advent of fiber-optic-based communication, our ancestors used ostrich egg shells to engrave geometrical designs and other concepts on an enduring material. This happened more than 60,000 years ag... |
2 March 2010
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It is commonly believed that the onset and development of agriculture took place around 10,000 years ago, as our forefathers learned how to harvest and domesticate plants, and put them at work to support growing communities. This ability allowed for the appearance of larger cities, which in turn made science evolve, ... |
18 December 2009
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Recent archaeological discoveries hint at the fact that the early humans, even those living as far back as the Stone Age, used to separate their homes into various living quarters, much like we do today. Experts say that these people did not eat in the same place they slept, or hanged out during the day, which is a r... |
18 December 2009
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It would arguably be extremely hard to image the modern world without multitasking. It has become such a widespread habit, that virtually everyone does it. Children do it, their parents too, and business people are among the representatives of the genre. But very few of us have stopped to think where this ability com... |
29 September 2009
03:03 GMT |
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New archaeological finds cast a new light on the life of early humans, living as far back as 72,000 years ago. It would appear that even in those remote times, toolmakers knew the fact that treating their tools thermally, as in with fire, provided a new set of traits, that could not be obtained naturally. The finds w... |
14 August 2009
02:34 GMT |
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Skara Brae is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Orkney, Scotland, and one of the most important ones at that. It is one of the best preserved Stone Age settlements discovered to date, with a number of buildings uncovered, and the shape and size of streets established as well. However, its position, a few meters away fr... |
3 August 2009
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According to recent investigations, it would appear that Stone Age people were a lot smarter than first thought. The conclusion was reached once experts managed to reverse-engineer a type of ancient superglue, which hinted at the fact that its makers were people with a high degree of cognitive skills. Used primarily ... |
13 May 2009
02:33 GMT |
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As indicated in a previous article, the remains of an ancient family have recently been unearthed in Germany, close to the city of Eulau. This has also been demonstrated to be the earliest ever genetic evidence of a nuclear family discovered. The impressive batch of Stone Age graves also provided clues to the fact th... |
19 November 2008
06:34 GMT |
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The PRP music news site has got hold of some vital Guitar Hero III information. No, the game won't be played with Jimmy's original guitar; you'll be using a plastic guitar just like before. However, the first rock band to be featured in the music game for the PS3 and Wii has been confirmed: Queens of ... |
7 May 2007
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