Category: Human
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Ancient pottery. Cooking. Dead men.
A team has developed a new method to date archaeological pottery using fat residues remaining in the pot wall from cooking. The method means prehistoric pottery can be dated with remarkable accuracy, sometimes to the window of a human life span. Pottery found in Shoreditch, London proven to be 5,500 years old and shows the…
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Going home…
New research indicates mantis shrimp use path integration to find their way back to their burrows after leaving to seek food or mates. That means they can track their distance and direction from their starting point. A series of creative experiments revealed that to do that, they rely on a hierarchy of cues from the…
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Ancient wisdom.
Some islands have such low elevation, that mere inches of sea-level rise will flood them, but higher, larger islands will also be affected by changes in climate and an understanding of ancient practices in times of climate change might help populations survive, according to researchers. (1) Indigenous wisdom. Wisdom we have forgotten. And now the…
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True… False…
People are no better than chance at identifying when someone else is recounting a false or real memory of a crime, according to a new UCL study. Study author Dr Julia Shaw (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) said: “Everyone thinks that they couldn’t be tricked into believing they have done something they never did, and…
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Cute. (Death)
It’s the outside that counts: Their charisma has an impact on the introduction and image of alien species and can even hinder their control. An international research team have investigated the influence of charisma on the management of invasive species. (1) So beautiful. And yet. Lethal. The story of our life. Trusting. To our death.…
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