Evidence suggests Neanderthals boiled food

Originally posted on Ancientfoods:
Evidence suggests Neanderthals boiled food Neanderthal cooking likely wouldn’t have won any prizes on Top Chef, but a paleontologist suggests that our ancient cousins knew how to cook a mean stew, without even a stone pot to their name. This female Neanderthal, found in a cave in Gibraltar, may have enjoyed…

The past’s mark on the present as seen through LIDAR

Originally posted on Ecology by Proxy:
By Erika Lyon Light Detection and Ranging, also known as LiDAR, is a form of remote sensing used by various professions to examine landscape features in three-dimensions.  Imaging is generally performed by aircraft (though not always) that use lasers, scanners, and GPS to measure reflected light from Earth’s surface.…

ROMARCH: American Journal of Archaeology Open Access (April 2014)

Originally posted on [quem dixere chaos]:
American Journal of Archaeology Open Access April 2014 Below is a list of freely available content published in tandem with the April 2014 issue (vol. 118 no. 2): AIA Awards: http://www.ajaonline.org/aia-awards/1767. Supplementary Content accompanying “Life and Death of a Bronze Age House: Excavation of Early Minoan I Levels at…

Modern Humans Journey

Originally posted on After Big Bang:
Biological evolution simply put is descent with modification. This definition encompasses small-scale evolution (changes in gene frequency in a population from one generation to the next) and large-scale evolution (the descent of different species from a common ancestor over many generations). Evolution helps us to understand the history of…