Scientists from the Stanford Human Genome Center studied 650,000 DNA locations from 938 people from 51 different places, to create “the highest resolution look at population genetics that has been done to date,” according to researcher Devin Absher. They say that their paper, published in Science, when combined with the two studies published in Nature, (see yesterday’s news listings) offer strong evidence for the “Out of Africa” theory of human migration.

A study published in Current Anthropology suggests that the average height of people within different ethnic groups can be linked to where and how their ancestors lived. (Nomadic herders tend to be taller than hunter gatherers.)  

Only battery-powered vehicles will be allowed to approach the World Heritage Khajuraho temples, located near Bhopal, in central India. “Pollutants are damaging the walls of the temples. Unesco has asked us to make the area around the temple a pollution-free zone,” said K.K. Muhammad of the Archaeological Survey of India.  

Al-Ahram has published photographs of what had been called the “warrior’s tomb,” discovered in Thebes, and pictures of the arrows and pottery found within it. The burial dates to 2000 B.C.  

New magnetic resonance scanning software allowed researchers from the University of Zurich to examine a 1,000-year-old Peruvian mummy “without having to moisten tissues before examination.” This short piece from BBC News is accompanied by four photographs.

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