A tomb made out of more than 2,000 blue and white stacked porcelain bowls stuck together with rice and cement was discovered just beneath a road in Chongqing, China. Similar tombs have been found in Fujian Province, prompting archaeologists to speculate that the tomb had been built by migrant workers.  Four 1,600-year-old bronze mirrors were […]

Marine ecologist Claudio Richter and others have identified a rare species of giant clam that was once the dominant variety. Did early hunter-gatherers cause the decline, and did they migrate out of Africa to search for more clams? Alain Beauvilain of the University of Paris at Nanterre discovered the fossilized bones of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, aka […]