Geology in the News

Geoarcheology stories

Kurt C. Friehauf

Geoarcheology (and some just plain old archeology!)

·       Ethiopian Fossil Skull Indicates Homo Erectus Was Single, Widespread Species 1 Million Years Ago – March 26, 2002

·       Human Fossil Adds Fuel to Evolution Debate – March 25, 2002

·       Iceman's final battle – March 20, 2002

·       All Alone A Million Years Ago (million-year-old Homo erectus skull found in Ethiopia indicates that this human ancestor was a single species scattered widely throughout Asia, Europe and Africa) – March 20, 2002

·       Did Humans and Neandertals Battle for Control of the Middle East? – March 9, 2002

·       Humans Emerged "Out Of Africa" Again And Again – March 8, 2002

·       Climate Change Following Collapse Of The Maya Empire – January 25, 2002

·       Neanderthals 'used glue to make tools' – January 19, 2002

·       Did "Iceman" of Alps Die as Human Sacrifice? – January 15, 2002

·       The Ancients Were Right - Delphi Was A Gas! – August 7, 2001

·       Artifact Analyses Dispute Assumptions About A Prehistoric Society - August 3, 2001

·       Telltale Face Betrays Neanderthals as Non-Human  - August 2, 2001

·       Study Says Americas Settled 15,000 Years Ago  - July 31, 2001

·       Disaster that struck the ancients - July 26, 2001

·       Case Closed on the 'Iceman' Mystery  - July 26, 2001

·       Scientists solve iceman mystery  - July 26, 2001

·       Fall of Ancient Peruvian Societies Linked With El Niņo  - July 24, 2001

·       Ancient cities vanished into muddy morass – July 18, 2001

·       Soil Suggests Early Humans Lived In Forests Instead Of Grasslands – July 13, 2001

·       Earliest Human Ancestors Discovered In Ethiopia; Discovery Of Bones And Teeth Date Fossils Back More Than 5.2 Million Years – July 12, 2001

·       New Ethiopian Fossils May Represent Oldest Human Ancestor Yet - July 12, 2001

·       Fossil Of Earliest Hominid Known Found In Ethiopia – July 12, 2001

·       Fossils suggest earliest human ancestor (5.5 Ma) – July 12, 2001

·       Teeth and bones stir human debate – July 11, 2001

·       Researchers Divided Over Whether Anasazi Were Cannibals - June 1, 2001 - The Dallas Morning News

·       Fishy clue to rise of humans - May 21, 2001

·       Sun key to Mayan misery? - May 18, 2001

·       Boost for 'Out of Africa' theory – May 10, 2001

·       Boiling Brains:  Victims of the Mt Vesuvius eruption were killed instantly by a 500C heat wave that vaporised their brains - April 2001

·       Dentists repaired teeth with stone-tipped drills more than 8000 years ago  - April 2001

·       Oldest city in the Americas - April 26, 2001

·       Asteroids 'affected human evolution' – April 12, 2001

·       Vesuvius victims 'died instantly' – April 11, 2001

·       Skull Of New Early Human Relative Found In Kenya -- Did Humans Descend From Lucy Or From Newly Discovered Creature? - March 23, 2001

·       A New Human Ancestor? - March 22, 2001

·       A 3.5 million year-old skull unearthed in Kenya may force a re-examination of the evolution of modern humans - March 21, 2001

·       Flat-faced man is puzzle - March 21, 2001

·       Tiny bones tell evolution story – March 17, 2000

·       Machu Picchu 'in danger of collapse' - March 8, 2001

·       Digging Up Rotten Rock - DISCOVER Vol. 22 No. 3 - March 2001

·       Anthropologist Examines The Power Of Water On Earth's Earliest Civilizations – February 23, 2001

·       Ancient Mayan cities looted - February 22, 2001

·       Texas A&M Field School Discoveries May Rewrite History Of Early North American Man – February 8, 2001

·       'Oldest' ape-man fossils revealed - February 7, 2001

·       Handy clues to ascent of Man - February 6, 2001

·       Inside the city of the black tiger - January 25, 2001

·       Climate Changes Played Role In Early Human Evolution – January 23, 2001

·       New Fossil Study Rejects "Eve Theory" And Supports Diverse Ancestry Of Modern Humans January 12, 2001

·       Hominid child discovered January 15, 2001 - 3.2 million years old!

·       Fossil challenge to Africa theory January 9, 2001 - Did mankind evolve from Africa alone, or did some come from Asia?

·       Scientists, Archaeologists And Historians Will Unravel The Mystery Of Egypt's Sunken Cities December 25, 2000

·       Iceman keeps scientists guessing - December 19, 2000

·       North Sea wreck in methane mystery - November 29, 2000

·       Scientists 'find lost Mayan king' - September 26, 2000

·       A Mayan revival - September 25, 2000

·       The Iceman - "Man from the Hauslabjoch"

·       Italy's iceman back in the freezer - September 25, 2000

·       Lost Mayan palace found in Guatemala - September 9, 2000

·       Taste for flesh troubled Neanderthals - June 12, 2000

·       Pompeii reveals ancient luxury hotel – May 4, 2000

·       Neanderthals not human ancestors - March 29, 2000

·       Questioning the origins of man – December 24, 1999

·       African ape-man's hand unearthed – December 15, 1999

·       Neanderthals were cannibals - October 1, 1999

·       Ancient 'tool factory' uncovered - May 6, 1999

·       'First Americans were Australian' - August 26, 1999

·       Neanderthals survived longer than thought - October 26, 1999

·       Fossil find may be 'missing link' - April 23, 1999

·       Neanderthals 'mated with modern humans' - April 20, 1999

·       A taste for meat -  January 15, 1999

·       Bulldozers threaten Americas' Pompeii – January 14, 1999

·       Secrets of the Stone Age - December 16, 1998

·       Fossil find could rewrite human history – December 10, 1998

·       Skeleton find could rewrite human history - 3 million-year-old skeleton in South Africa December 9, 1998

·       Humans came close to extinction (About 70,000 years ago mankind came close to being wiped out by a 'volcanic winter') September 8, 1998

·       The oldest gifts in the world July 8, 1998

·       Sand Grains Reveal How Humans Change Australia - June 29, 1998

·       Tests Reveal True Age Of Controversial Jinmium Aboriginal Rock Shelter - May 29, 1998

·       Secrets of the Stone Age - New insights into the lives of an extinct species of human December 16, 1998

·       Italy's iceman comes home - January 16, 1998

·       Italian iceman goes on show - March 28, 1998