Link: Legendary Bronze Age Chinese flood
Annalee Newitz describes a study in Science that examines a semi-legendary flood at the dawn of Chinese civilization, which turns out to have been a real eve...
Annalee Newitz describes a study in Science that examines a semi-legendary flood at the dawn of Chinese civilization, which turns out to have been a real eve...
Slate has a fun story by Andrew Lawler that covers some of how we study ancient diets: “The Mystery of Curry”:
A new study by Remco Bouckaert and colleagues attempts to place the origin of Indo-European languages by using an epidemiological population model, essential...
The Siberian Times is running a long, detailed story on the return of the Ukok Princess, or “Ice Maiden” to the Altai Republic: “Siberian princess reveals he...
There are many stories from my travels last summer that I haven’t yet told here. I’ve been thinking that I need to get them written down, so that I’ll have m...
In the course of studying recent human evolution, I’ve done a lot of work on the skeletal remains of Bronze Age Europeans. This is a series of cultures we kn...
The BBC has a story about Y chromosome matches between German Bronze Age skeletons and a couple of guys living in the same area now: