During next Monday’s solar eclipse, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy will celebrate the once in a lifetime event as the anniversary of its founding. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the Iroquois Confederacy, is composed of the Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Mohawk and Tuscarora nations. A total solar eclipse played an important role in its history. On the … Read more
Archaeologists have been trying to piece together the full human story for a long time, but some members of prehistoric societies have been largely overlooked: kids! It turns out these little people played a much bigger part in human history than we realized. In Little Sapiens, a documentary from The Nature of Things, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki … Read more
The Current16:20Huge ancient city discovered in Amazon “Wow” was all archaeologist Stéphen Rostain could say when LiDAR (light detection and ranging) laser technology revealed several ancient cities hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. “It’s a gift for an archaeologist,” he told The Current‘s Matt Galloway. Using the laser-scanning technology, researchers have uncovered a complex network of … Read more
As It Happens6:35How scientists tracked the 1,000 km journey of a woolly mammoth using its tusk With nothing more than a tusk, researchers were able to track the 1,000 kilometre journey of a woolly mammoth that lived 14,000 years ago. “The fact that we can actually regenerate her movement, her place along a landscape … … Read more
The 2013 discovery of the largest collection of hominid fossils ever found is rewriting the origin of complex behaviours we thought were uniquely human, says a renowned paleoanthropologist. The fossilized bones belonged to an entirely new species of ancient human relatives called, Homo naledi, which lived in South Africa several hundred thousand years ago when the first Homo … Read more
For thousands of years, a breed of white, woolly dog played an important and cultural role for Coast Salish people in Western Canada but when colonists moved in the animal quickly became extinct, a new study says. It started with a dog named Mutton that died in 1859. Its pelt had been in a collection at the … Read more
