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The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial

Community

Bringing up baby, 10,000 years ago

26 September 2022

Article

Culture

"Odibi", a graphic novel about the Anishinaabeg of Lac Simon

5 April 2022

Article

The site of Ganj Dareh, which means "valley of treasures", in Iran.

Science

Using Philip Smith’s archaeological archives to rediscover Iran’s “Treasure Valley”

10 February 2022

Article

Mario Martone, Laurence McFalls, Mariella Pandolfi, Christiane Lutz and François Girard

Culture

Staging opera for a contemporary audience

9 February 2022

Article

We illustrate a conservative view of potential human adaptations based on similar technology today and from science fiction (Elson, 2016; Smith, 2008). Extreme heat may require protective personal clothing for outdoor activity – in this hypothetical case, a sealed helmet and a suit conducting water and coolants around the body. Outdoor agriculture in 2500 may be managed by automated drone-machinery.

Science

The climate emergency: a Q&A with Ariane Burke and Julien Riel-Salvatore

27 October 2021

Article

Among the observations they made in the wild, the researchers noted that chimpanzee mothers share food with their offspring that is difficult to swallow or food that they cannot chew themselves, most often done with staple foods.

Science

Something to chew on

21 May 2020

Article

Excavation of a double burial at Shum Laka Rockshelter in Cameroon, containing the remains of two boys who lived ~8000 years ago and who were genetically from the same family. Ancient DNA reveals that these two individuals and another pair of children buried three millennia later at Shum Laka were from a stable population that was then almost completely replaced by the very different populations living in Cameroon today.

Society

Where do we come from?

22 January 2020

Press release

Retoucher on a long bone fragment from a large mammal.

Society

Discovery of 115,000-year-old bone tools in China

14 March 2018

Article

Human remains from a Late Neolithic Globular Amphora burial site in Kierzkowo, northwestern Poland, supplied by UdeM geneticist Damian Labuda for the study on the genomic history of southeastern Europe published in Nature, Feb. 21, 2018.

Society

Ancient DNA study reveals the prehistory of Southeastern Europe

21 February 2018

Press release

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