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Geotimes January 2006 Megan Sever |
Old "Footprints" Stomped Out? A dating debate over prints found in the Valsequillo Basin in southern Mexico leaves open one of the biggest questions in American archaeology -- when people first colonized the Americas. |
Geotimes March 2007 Megan Sever |
Out of Africa and into Russia Researchers excavating at a well-known archaeological site in Russia have found evidence of the earliest-known modern humans in Europe, pushing back the dates of when modern humans arrived in Europe. |
Geotimes February 2004 Megan Sever |
Geoarchaeology: The Past Comes to Light Geological stories are inseparable from the human ones. The sea level can rise causing populations to migrate. A volcano can erupt and wipe out a civilization. Climate can alter the soil and shift the course of a culture. As the natural world changes, so too does society. |
Geotimes December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Paleontology The "Great Dying" debate... Tracking human migration... More "hobbits" in Indonesia... T. rex bones break ground... An evolving debate... |
Geotimes May 2007 Katherine Unger |
"Clovis First" in Doubt Clovis' status as the first Americans has now been called into question by new radiocarbon dates that indicate Clovis technology flourished for a much shorter time than previously thought. |
Geotimes December 2006 Megan Sever |
Dates Help Paint Picture of Early Migration Geologists and archaeologists are both trying to solve the puzzle of how and when the first settlers migrated to the Americas. New radiocarbon dates from marine sediments in the Arctic are helping geologists better create a timeline for their piece of the puzzle, which could in turn help archaeologists with their job. |
Geotimes May 2006 Megan Sever |
Fleeing Vesuvius A picture is worth more than a thousand words in the case of what some newly uncovered footprints in Vesuvian ash are telling researchers about the hazards that Italy's most notorious volcano might pose in the future. |
Geotimes June 2006 Erika Engelhaupt |
Warming Opened Americas to Humans About 18,000 years ago the comparatively luxuriant Americas beckoned to hunter-gatherers in eastern Asia by way of present-day Alaska, with warmer climes and plenty of fish and game, say geoarchaeologists. |
Scientific American August 2005 Kate Wong |
Footprints to Fill Flat feet and doubts about makers of the 3.6-million-year-old Laetoli footprints, thought to have been made by Australopithecus afarensis. |