Sgt. Ronald Peters, a geospatial analyst with Multi-National Corps-Iraq C-7, is creating new maps of 800 of Iraq’s archaeological sites. CT scans of skull fragments unearthed at the royal cemetery at Ur show that the palace attendants had died when a sharp instrument had been driven into their heads. It had been thought that the […]

 Tools and a hominid tooth add to the evidence that Africa’s Great Rift Valley is the “cradle of humankind,” according to Friedemann Schrenk of Goethe University in Frankfurt.   And, a new study led by Stephen Stearns of Yale University shows that humans are still evolving.   David Geary of the University of Missouri adds that as […]