A new calibration curve will extend radiocarbon calibration and improve earlier parts of the curve. “It is significant because this agreed calibration curve now extends over the entire normal range of radiocarbon dating, up to 50,000 years before today,” said Ron Reimer of the Queen’s School of Geography, Archaeology, and Palaeoecology. Flat-footed walking is energy […]

 DNA tests conducted on four 4,000-year-old human hairs discovered in Greenland have linked the man who grew them to modern-day Arctic residents of Siberia. “We have an increasingly powerful forensic tool with which to ‘reconstruct’ extinct humans and the demographics of populations,” according to David Lambert and Leon Huynen of Griffith University in Australia.   Live […]