climate change Archive
Earth Changes
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A comprehensive study examining fossil human teeth from Ice Age Europe has revealed significant insights into how climate change affected prehistoric human populations.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of the most extraordinary archaeological discoveries of recent times was the uncovering of the so-called Seahenge off the north coast of Norfolk,
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - It is no secret that the Romans were heavy wine drinkers. Estimates put the average Roman male's consumption at a liter or more of diluted wine per day.
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Central features of human evolution may stop our species from resolving global environmental problems like climate change, says a recent study led by
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - As the world faces the challenges of present-day climate change, scientific inquiry is, among other objectives, exploring how human societies navigate environmental variations at
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News
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Using geological samples from the Ythan Estuary in Scotland, scientists have identified a melting ice sheet as the probable trigger of a
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has found evidence that past changes in atmospheric CO2 and corresponding shifts in climate and vegetation played a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to
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Vikings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings occupied Greenland from roughly 985 to 1450, farming and building communities before abandoning their settlements and mysteriously vanishing. Why they disappeared has
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Swiss scientists are reconstructing the climate of the ancient world using small wooden artifacts hung on mummified remains. Throughout history, the Earth's climate has undergone
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient temple complex Medinet Habu has survived in the arid desert climate for thousands of years. But in the 100 years since
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Simon Fraser University scientists say their research on the latest fossil find near Princeton, B.C. is raising questions about how the dispersal
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have pinpointed two intervals when ice and ocean conditions would have been favorable to support early human migration from Asia to North
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The collapse of the Hittite Empire in the Late Bronze Age has been blamed on various factors, from war with other territories to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Pronounced climate fluctuations and changed conditions for agriculture coincided with the rise and fall of the Persian Empires, according to an international study
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Changes in Earth's orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago that
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - When the ancestors of Māori made landfall in Aotearoa some 750 years ago, it marked the final stop of the greatest expansion of human migration in
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - About 8,000 to 10,000 years ago, a major climate shift took place, and Sahara turned into a desert. Before this occurred, the region
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –We rely on climate models to predict the future, but models cannot be fully tested as climate observations rarely extend back more than
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional environmental context of the evolution and dispersal of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Our ancestors dealt with large-scale environmental challenges thousands of years ago. Understanding their traditional practices may inform modern Europeans racing to adapt to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Prolonged drought likely helped to fuel civil conflict and the eventual political collapse of Mayapan, the ancient capital city of the Maya on
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - El Nino has been a major driver of societal collapse, various catastrophes and cultural change in coastal Peru for millennia, but it isn't
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study of the ancient world of Anatolia—now Turkey—shows how they adapted to climate change but offers a warning for today's climate
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A study carried out in the area around the Pego-Oliva Marshland Natural Park, between Valencia and Alicante, reveals how the rise in sea
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One day more than 3,000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has found clear evidence for a link between astronomically-driven climate change and human evolution. According to the new
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What a person eats influences that person's health, longevity and experience in the world. Identifying the factors that determine people's diets is important
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Sea level changes caused the decline of one of the longest pre-Columbian coastal societies of the Americas 2,000 years ago, known as Sambaqui.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Based on the identification of plant remains, Tel Aviv University and Tel-Hai College researchers provide the first detailed reconstruction of the climate in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Referred to as China's Venice of the Stone Age, the Liangzhu excavation site in eastern China is considered one of the most significant
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many believe climate change and environmental degradation caused the Maya civilization to fall—but a new survey shows that some Maya kingdoms had sustainable
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Why did some ancient Khmer and Mesoamerican cities collapse between 900-1500CE, while their rural surrounds continued to prosper? Intentional adaptation to climate changed
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Throughout history, people of different cultures and stages of evolution have found ways to adapt, with varying success, to the gradual warming of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have gathered measurements of over 300 ancient fossils all over the world to analyze how climate change has altered our brain and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some of the world's earliest rock art located at the Maros-Pangkep site in Sulawesi, Indonesia, is rapidly disappearing due to climate change. Rock
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have studied five drought periods over an 800-year period during which Ancestral Puebloans had to fight for their survival, and they succeeded.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An examination of two documented periods of climate change in the greater Middle East, between approximately 4,500 and 3,000 years ago, reveals local
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Glacier archaeology has become a sparking a brand-new field of research, and with good reason. Over the years, archaeologists have unearthed exceptional artifacts
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - German-Italian research project investigates different cutting tools from the Sesselfelsgrotte cave in Lower Bavaria. Now they know that Neanderthals had to develop more
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Megadrought that caused the end of the Green Sahara and its vegetation, also heavily damaged human settlements in Southeast Asia. Researchers have now physical
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