Archaeology

Discovered near a graveyard, the wand was likely used in funereal rituals

Ice sheets trapped ancient Americans in refuges on land now under the Bering Strait

The fossil-rich layers date from the period when dinosaurs and birds split from a common ancestor

What with all the monitor-themed goodness around these parts lately (see links below), it seems only fitting that I provide a re-vamped, substantially updated version of this Tet Zoo ver 2 classic (originally published in September 2007).

Genetic evidence supports a theory that ancestors of Native Americans lived for 15,000 years on the Bering Land Bridge between Asia and North America until the last ice age ended

A monsoon hiatus that began 4,200 years ago parallels a dry spell that led to the collapse of bronze age civilizations in Egypt, Greece and Mesopotamia

A foreign fungus nearly wiped out North America's once vast chestnut forests. Genetic engineering can revive them

In their treatment of the dead, Neandertals were a lot like us

Scientists draw battle lines over metal salvaged from ancient shipwrecks

Using ground-penetrating radar, archaeologists have digitally reconstructed living quarters, a bath complex and a training arena

The plaque on millennium-old teeth from a German cemetery contain the residue of pork, cabbage and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Christopher Intagliata reports