Recent study of world’s most ancient living things –camp of bacteria were found near the West Australia coast, imply that the first life on Earth may have started much earlier than the recent accepted date of about 3.5 billion years ago.
The colonies shape rock-like structures, known as stromatolites, near the tidal pools at Shark Bay: researchers have discovered that they are analogous with ancient stromatolite fossils, which found nearby Pilbara region, which considered as the oldest convincing evidence of life.
Complicated exploration by a team from UNSW Australian Centre for Astrobiology (ACA) have now revealed that the colonies are very biologically varied, involving many more than just a few species as previously thought and that the same was probably true of the 3.5 billion-year-old Pilbara stromatolites.
ACA Deputy Director Professor Brett Neilan said, “Powerful new chemistry and genomic tools have revealed that the Shark Bay stromatolites have remarkable biodiversity, with evidence so far of more than 100 species of bacteria,” .
“In effect, this suggests that by 3.5 billion years ago Earth was already teeming with diverse microbial life. If this is so, evolution must have already been going on for a long time. We can’t be sure, but certainly many tens of millions of years earlier. These findings could reset the start of the clock of life.”

The chewed nuts by ancient rats remained is considered to be the new evidence that settles the debate regarding
Maori people whether in New Zealand they were the first inhabitants. The paleontologist Trevor worthy of the University of Adelaide in Australia and colleagues report initiates about their finding of proceedings of the national academy of sciences. The research settles a debate trigger in 1996 and when the researchers reports that they had found evidence for human presence in New Zealand 2,000 years ago.

Richard holdaway of university of Canterbury and colleagues argues that Maori was the first humans in New Zealand. The idea that there were people in New Zealand before Maori and though the accurate date has been reported in the nature. The holdaway 1996 paper rely on radiocarbon dating of rat bones from the species rattus exulans which considered for human presence in New Zealand. Worthy and his colleagues dated the bones taken from the layers of soil excavated in holdaway study and dig deeper to recover older bones.

Archeologists made an amazing discovery in southern Peru after they discovered the oldest gold necklace ever found. This necklace carries nine small gold tubes with a sequence of round stones, recognized as either greenstone or turquoise. The necklace’s gold beads are further thick and cylindrical in shape with various lengths. "This was a big surprise to us," lead author Mark Aldenderfer of the University of Arizona said. "It was not expected in the least," said Mark Aldenderfer, one of the experts. "It’s always fun to find something and go, ‘Wow, what is that doing here?’

The beads differed in length from 11.5 to 29 millimeters and weigh from 1.5 to 5.2 grams. The corners of the beads displayed characteristic hammer marks and were folded over other than cut. The next oldest gold ornaments was found in this hemisphere date to about 600 years later than this one, Aldenderfer said adding up that the site is as well situated in Peru but farther north.

The researchers said, In Early, most of the archaeologists thought that the Stonehenge burials were continued only for about a century. Parker Pearson, Professor of Archaeology said in a statement that "Stonehenge was a place of burial from its beginning to its zenith in the mid third millennium B.C. The cremation burial dating to phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument’s use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead,”

Researchers also found the homes which are nearer to Durrington Walls, which appeared to be cyclic abode related to the Stonehenge.

“It’s a quite extraordinary settlement, we’ve never seen anything like it before,” Parker Pearson said. The town appeared as a land of the living and the Stonehenge appeared as the land of ancestors, he said. There were conceivably 1,000 homes in the town, in that the small homes were occupied during midwinter and midsummer, he said.

A technology usually used in remaking surgery to generate prosthetic limbs is actually now being used to make reproductions of Iraq’s valuable and delicate cuneiform clay tablets, according to an Italian team of researchers. Thousands and thousands of pieces were nearly stolen and busted at Bagdad’s museums during the attack of Iraq in 2003, in what has been known the most disastrous theft of relics since World War II.

In the misplaced items are the delicate tablets that are some of the first known written documents. The tablets were also originated as early as 5,000 years ago by the Sumerians who intimidated the writings in clay. The clay further made stronger rapidly in the hot and dry whether of Mesopotamia, an area near new Iraq. Now scientists desire to assist protect what is left of the defenseless Iraqi cultural inheritance. Sponsored by the Italian ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ground-breaking project to digitally reconstruct the tablets was imagined by Pisa University’s Assyriology Department and the Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA).