MADISON, Wisconsin, April 18 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: From top left, Jean-Michel Ane (biological sciences), Vernon Barger (physics), Katrina T. Forest (biological sciences), Simon Gilroy (biological sciences), James Keck (biological sciences) and Sissel Schroeder (anthropology) have been elected 2024 AAAS Fellows. Six University of Wisconsin-Madison scholars have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the  more

CAMBRIDGE, England, April 19 -- The Cambridge Archaeological Journal, a journal from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2024 edition (Vol. 34, Issue 2): Research Article: * A Partial Prehistory of the Southwest Silk Road: Archaeometallurgical Networks along the Sub-Himalayan Corridor * A Small Rural Travel Stopover at the Late Postclassic Maya Site of Mensabak, Chiapas, Mexico: Overland Trade, Cross-Cultural Inte  more

OLD ELVET, England, April 19 (TNSres) -- Durham University issued the following news: * * * New research into a medieval village in southern Spain has found that an earthquake likely caused its abandonment in the 13th century. * * * Our archaeologists have been investigating the El Castillejo Islamic settlement in Los Guajares, Granada, as part of the ArMedEa project (Archaeology of medieval earthquakes in Europe AD100-1550). Previous excavations suggested that the site was occupied betwe  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: By Mike Pena and Allison Arteaga Soergel Three UC Santa Cruz faculty members have been named 2023 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world's largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals. They are Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, emerita distinguished research professor of anthropology; longtime  more

NORMAN, Oklahoma, April 19 -- The University of Oklahoma issued the following news release: Two researchers from the University of Oklahoma have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bonnie Pitblado, Ph.D., and Jeffrey Kelly, Ph.D., are part of the 2023 class of fellows to the world's largest scientific society. "Dr. Pitblado and Dr. Kelly's induction as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science underscores their remarkable cont  more

BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 19 (TNSres) -- Free University of Brussels-VUB issued the following news release: Mughr el-Hamamah, meaning "pigeon cave" in Arabic, is a site in northwestern Jordan, renowned for its prehistoric findings dating between 39,000 and 45,000 years old. Numerous stone tools, hearths, and animal and hominin bones have been excavated there. The cave is of immense importance to paleoanthropologists, as this was the period when Homo neanderthalensis inhabited Europe and parts of  more