Archaeology

Archaeology

The origin of chocolate and camouflaged fungus

Artifacts that belonged to native Americans between 5,300 and 2,100 years ago hold the earliest evidence of the domestication and use of cacao

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Amazonia

Brother in the North

Emílio Goeldi Museum of Pará reaches 152nd anniversary with 4.5 million items preserved, but few protected

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INTERVIEW

Niède Guidon: “I’m going to open the Museum of Nature and then I will rest”

After four decades in the Serra da Capivara, the archaeologist confirms that she will leave Piauí after the opening of the new exhibition space

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NATURAL HISTORY

A new window on the sertão

The foundation created by archaeologist Niède Guidon is set to inaugurate its Museum of Nature in December at Serra da Capivara National Park in Piauí

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Archaeology

Prehistory in pieces

The skull of Luzia and a 2,800-year-old Egyptian mummy were among the more than 100,000 items in the archaeology and biological anthropology collections

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HISTORY

Memories indelible by fire

For 200 years, the National Museum contributed knowledge in the natural sciences and inspired the creation of several other science museums

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HERITAGE

The pain of loss

Six hours of fire destroyed 200 years of heritage at the largest natural-history museum in Latin America

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Photolab

Pre-Columbian Culture

Fragments of ceramic figures indicate that at the time there was a cultural connection between peoples across South America

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Archaeology

Neanderthal mother, Denisovan father

A 13-year-old girl who lived 90,000 years ago in what is now southwestern Siberia is the first described case of a direct descendant of two distinct archaic human groups

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Archaeology

The oldest library in Germany

Construction works on a church community center have revealed the ruins of a Roman library in the city of Cologne, Germany

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Photolab

Brazil’s National Museum in Quinta da Boa Vista

Brazil’s National Museum in Quinta da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro September 3, 2018

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Medicine

Salmonella in medieval Europe

Researchers found DNA evidence of Salmonella enterica Paratyphi C in the teeth and bones of an 800-year-old skeleton from the city of Trondheim, Norway

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ARCHAEOLOGY

The age of milk

Hunter-fisher-gatherers who lived in the coastal regions of Santa Catarina State 3,000 years ago breastfed children until 2 years of age

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COVER

More people in the rainforest

New archaeological sites and evidence of plant domestication support the idea that pre-Columbian Amazonia was densely populated

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Archaeology

Fishing scenes in the Atacama

The people who inhabited the northern coast of Chile before European colonization may have been skilled fishermen and marine hunters

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Profile

Eduardo Góes Neves

Archaeologist from MAE-USP summarizes his studies on how intense human occupation has shaped the Amazon forest

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Archaeology

The world’s oldest figural tattoos

Two naturally mummified bodies have what archaeologists consider to be the earliest known figural tattoos

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Archaeology

Charred Neanderthal Tools

Excavations resulted in the discovery of a number of tools indicating that Neanderthals used fire to shape wooden objects earlier than previously thought

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Archaeology

Settlers and farmers

Ancestors of the Jê group lived in pit houses and cultivated cassava and beans in the Santa Catarina highlands a thousand years ago

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ARCHAEOLOGY

Occupation of primordial “Brazil”

Evidence suggests that hunter-gatherers inhabited all major regions of Brazil roughly 10,000 years ago

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Genetics

The baby girl from ancient Beringia

According to analyses, the baby was part of a population that probably comprised a few thousand individuals

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Archaeology

Small pre-colonial villages in northern Brazil were independent

Small pre-colonial villages in northern Brazil were independent

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archaeology

Mysterious void in the heart of the Great Pyramid of Giza

Mysterious void in the heart of the Great Pyramid of Giza

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archaeology

Rice domesticated in the Amazon 4,000 years ago

Rice domesticated in the Amazon 4,000 years ago

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Archaeology

Homo sapiens in the middle of South America

Site near Cuiabá indicates that humans were present there 27,000 years ago

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mathematics

Trigonometry on a 3700-year-old tablet from Babylon

Trigonometry on a 3700-year-old tablet from Babylon

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archaeology

Arriving in Australia earlier than thought

Artifacts suggest that Aborigines arrived in Australia 65,000 years ago

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Archaeology

3,000-year-old copper mask is found in Argentina

3,000-year-old copper mask is found in Argentina

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Archaeology

Oldest Homo sapiens dating back 300,000 years found in Morocco

Oldest Homo sapiens dating back 300,000 years found in Morocco

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archaeology

Bones removed from a mastodon suggest that there were hominids in California 130,000 years ago

Bones suggest that there were hominids in California 130,000 years ago

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