Archaeology & Paleontology

Magazine articles on archaeology, paleontology, artifacts, prehistoric origins.

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Chemistry World January 23, 2013	Chemical climate proxies With the climate change debate as heated as ever, how do scientists reconstruct what the weather was like in the past? Jon Evans looks at the detective chemistry behind such environmental forensic work
Chemistry World December 12, 2012 David Bradley	Cracking old cheese please, Gromit New evidence and chemical research suggests that early farmers made cheese to allow them to cope with the lactose found in raw milk. These farmers may have lacked the enzymes to digest to breakdown the sugar, so would have been lactose intolerant.
Chemistry World October 24, 2012	Delving deeper in the Hall of the Kings A portable and non-invasive technique to study and characterize pigments in ancient architecture has been developed by scientists in Spain.
Chemistry World September 28, 2012 Helen Potter	Molecular fossils: new compounds from 4900-year-old wood If you dug up a wooden artifact, how could you tell what type of tree it came from? French chemists have identified unique molecules from an ancient piece of oak that could hold the key.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012	2012 Holiday Lectures on Science -- Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future In HHMI's 2012 Holiday Lectures on Science, three leading scientists will explore the history of life on Earth and the forces that have shaped, and will continue to shape, our ever-changing planet.
Chemistry World June 14, 2012 Laura Howes	Uranium dating fingers Neanderthals as artists Researchers used U-Th ratios to date calcite deposits that overlaid the Paleolithic artwork to calculate a minimum age of the cave paintings.
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 Nicole Kresge	Bones, Stones, and Genes Students and teachers joined five experts in what may have been the largest stone tool-making session in the history of human evolution.
Chemistry World June 30, 2011 Mike Brown	Copper signals a colourful past Trace elements found in over 100 million-year-old fossil samples have helped to uncover the colourful past of some prehistoric species, according to an international collaboration of scientists.
Chemistry World March 18, 2011 Rebecca Brodie	Digging deeper into bone fossils The accuracy of studies on ancient bones of interest to archaeologists and paleontologists can be improved thanks to a new procedure designed by scientists in France.
BusinessWeek January 20, 2011 Michael Rosenwald	Book Review: Naturally Selected: The Evolutionary Science of Leadership How to explain the rise of the mogul class? Why it's evolution, of course. At least that's the theory of the authors of Naturally Selected
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