In a quaint seaside workshop on Greece's island of Lesbos, Nikos Kouvdis is keeping ancient pottery techniques alive, a dedication recently acknowledged by UNESCO through its National Inventory of ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

A new study suggests that the DNA some modern Japanese people have inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers may increase BMI. Some modern Japanese people may have a higher body mass index ...

In the scenic workshop on Lesbos, renowned potter Dimitris Kouvdis is reviving ancient techniques that have landed a spot on UNESCO's National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Kouvdis, at 70 ...

Radiocarbon dating showed this giant wolf lived 35,000 years ago while the Japanese wolf lived 5,000 years ago during the Jomon Pottery Culture ... “Our cutting-edge ancient DNA analysis ...

But that has all changed, as scholars from Macquarie University in Australia have identified an ancient Egyptian... As Greek mythology goes, the universe was once a big soup of nothingness. Then, two ...

In Germany’s Blätterhöhle cave, students and archaeologists uncovered a 9,000-year-old fireplace and prehistoric weapons, ...

They found that two-thirds of the pottery vessels were made by children as young as seven and eight years old, indicating that child labor helped sustain the ancient pottery industry. The ...

When you picture a timeline of Japanese history, which side is the Jomon Pottery Culture Period (c. 14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.) on? Is it right or left? Since ancient times, the passage of time has ...

Laboratory director Gretchen Cotter was sorting through them when she noticed the pottery fragment’s peculiar markings: imprints of a foreleg and small paw pads, as well as deep, precise ...

This effectively means variations in modern day Japanese genetic patterns can be explained by the historical influence of ancient Jomon hunter-gatherers and two continental groups from Northeast ...