News articles tagged with 'burial'
Oldest subarctic North American human remains found
— 26 Feb 2011 18:09 | Geology and palaeontologyA newly excavated archaeological site in Alaska contained the cremated remains of one of the earliest inhabitants of North America. The site may provide rare insights into the burial…
DNA testing on 2,000-year-old bones in Italy reveal East Asian ancestry
— 2 Feb 2010 13:19 | BiologyResearchers excavating an ancient Roman cemetery made a surprising discovery when they extracted ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from one of the skeletons buried at the site: the…
Geologists demonstrate extent of ancient ice age
— 17 Jun 2009 05:31 | Geology and palaeontologyGeologists at the University of Leicester have shown that an ancient Ice Age, once regarded as a brief 'blip,' in fact lasted for 30 million years…
Oldest evidence of leprosy found in India
— 27 May 2009 09:40 | HealthA biological anthropologist from Appalachian State University working with an undergraduate student from Appalachian, an evolutionary biologist from UNC Greensboro, and a team of archaeologists…
Queen's scientist helps search for Colombian 'disappeared'
— 25 May 2009 13:30 | HealthA Geoscientist from Queen's University Belfast has been advising police and legal professionals in Bogota on techniques to recover the bodies of Colombia's 'disappeared'…
World's earliest nuclear family found
— 18 Nov 2008 18:00 | Geology and palaeontologyThe researchers dated remains from four multiple burials discovered in Germany in 2005. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other -…
Roman York skeleton could be early tuberculosis victim
— 16 Sep 2008 18:03 | HealthThe skeleton of a man discovered by archaeologists in a shallow grave on the site of the University of York's campus expansion could be that of one of Britain's earliest victims of…
Study refutes myth of pure Scandinavian race
— 10 Jun 2008 01:44 | BiologyA team of forensic scientists at the University of Copenhagen has studied human remains found in two ancient Danish burial grounds dating back to the Iron Age, and discovered a man…
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