Centre for Human Palaeoecology & Evolutionary Origins
News 2011
Two in the year's 10 biggest stories
Posted on Wednesday 21 December 2011
Two papers appear in the top 10 biggest science stories from PNAS and the Guardian
Unleashing palaeoproteomics
Posted on Saturday 10 December 2011
First ancient proteome reported
MSc in Human Evolution launched
Posted on Friday 9 December 2011
An unique MSc with special focus on modern imaging and quantitative methods
€4.3M International Project to study the Transatlantic Slave Trade launched
Posted on Thursday 1 December 2011
New European-funded research network that will bring together an unprecedented range of young researchers to examine the history of the transatlantic slave trade
PNAS: Palaeolithic horses finally spotted
Posted on Monday 7 November 2011
Eighteen were bay, seven were black..., but six had spots.
Penny Spikins in New Scientist
Posted on Sunday 6 November 2011
Mental problems gave early humans an edge
Nature: Jawbone from Devon provides new clues about early humans
Posted on Thursday 3 November 2011
Palaeo have played a key role in an international project to find out more about when our earliest ancestors arrived in Europe.
Nature: Future survival of animals unknown in climate change age
Posted on Thursday 3 November 2011
Mega study of megafauna
PNAS: Culinary clues from earliest Baltic pottery
Posted on Tuesday 25 October 2011
Farming made no immediate impression on Baltic hunter-gatherer-potters, who still used their pots to cook fish
Palaeo Launch a 'huge success'
Posted on Sunday 23 October 2011
the largest lecture theater is sold out a week before launch
Current Biology: Researchers trace evolution of diversity in Hawaiian Honeycreepers
Posted on Friday 21 October 2011
An international team of scientists has determined the evolutionary family tree for one of the most strikingly diverse and endangered bird families in the world, the Hawaiian honeycreepers.
York research centre investigates the origins of humans
Posted on Monday 17 October 2011
A new research centre encompassing experts ranging from historians to biomolecular chemists has been established by the University of York and the Hull York Medical School (HYMS) to investigate human origins.
Nature Comms: Domestication of horses leads to boring stallions
Posted on Tuesday 23 August 2011
Absence of genetic diversity the result of domestication
Nature: Research progresses at a snails pace
Posted on Thursday 4 August 2011
but builds new Quaternary Chronology for Britian
PNAS: Cooked or crocked?
Posted on Tuesday 31 May 2011
Palaeo researcher challenges interpretation of Neanderthal Starch
Was that bone boiled?
Posted on Monday 31 January 2011
Hannah studies the mystery of the 'Lost Cannibals of Europe'
Nicky is the Key at Jorvik conference
Posted on Friday 28 January 2011
Nicky Milner delivers the keynote at the York Archaeological Trust's conference
Malin finds African remains in Roman cemetery
Posted on Thursday 27 January 2011
Intriguing find in Stratford-upon-Avon