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Fascinating article on earliest evidence of wine making and consumption in Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico! Many thanks to Peter Jordens for sharing this link from Cranfield University, featuring a study led by Dr Lisa Briggs. The article highlights the “earliest evidence of wine drinking in the Americas [as] found in Caribbean pottery vessels”; “no…

Researchers detected evidence of wine residue on the remains of a pottery vessel dated to around 500 years ago.

Scientists have found what they believe to be the earliest known evidence of wine drinking in the Americas, inside ceramic artefacts recovered from a small Caribbean island.

Identifying the Species or Breeds of Long-dead Canines Before the Era of Fashionable Disfigurement in Dogs Can Be Difficult. Now a New Technique Finds Some Answers in the Saqqara Necropolis of Egypt

Stony Brook University graduate student Fanny M. Cornejo has been named the winner of the newly-created “Emerging Conservationist Award"

Ball State Professor of Anthropology Mark Hill thinks it comes down to social networks, not trade.

New research showed that Viking bead makers were advanced and sophisticated in bead making in 700 AD.

Isotopic analysis primarily involves the separation of isotopes based on the significant differences in mass. The method is effective for identifying the isotopic signature within the inorganic and organic compounds.

Chinese paleontologists have further revealed how prehistoric humans in East Asia ate and made use of birds, according to the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Scientists reveal how East Asian prehistoric humans utilize birds-