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How Did The World Get So Ugly? - The Cultural Tutor Sheehan Quirke 3 BootinUp Oct 10 Oct 10 5 434
Time Team Classics: Beaker Settlement in Spain 1 eShirl Oct 8 Oct 8 3 220
Archaeologists Unearth Rare 9,000-Year-Old Stone Age Hammer in Norway 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 7 506
Early Humans Weren't Apex Predators After All. They Were Eaten by Leopards--A Lot. 16 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Oct 6 24 2516
12,000-year-old rock art hints at the Arabian Desert's lush past 0 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 11 622
Lakes in the Gobi Desert nurtured human life 8,000-years-ago 0 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 15 443
Bird calls may speak to origins of human language 0 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 2 299
The Ancestral People Behind Earth's Most Influential Language 0 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 16 439
42,000-year-old Shell Jewellery Workshop Discovered - The Oldest in Western Europe 1 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 28 26 2239
Science history: Rosetta stone is deciphered, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization 1 Judi Lynn Sep 27 Sep 27 8 1226
Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans 1 muriel_volestrangler Sep 25 Sep 25 17 1459
Ancient Humans Used Indigo Plant 34,000 Years Ago: First Evidence of Non-Food Plant Processing Found in Georgia 3 Judi Lynn Sep 3 Sep 22 15 635
Haniwa Dancers: 1,500-year-old ghostly figurines thought to hold the souls of the dead 1 Judi Lynn Sep 7 Sep 7 6 603
Drought uncovers 40 ancient tombs in Iraq 0 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Aug 31 13 639
Catalhoyuk Unearths New Secrets: Social Change and the "House of the Dead" in One of the World's Oldest Cities 0 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Aug 31 8 505
Dried Lake Reveals New Statue on Easter Island 1 Judi Lynn Aug 30 Aug 30 28 1048
Underfloor Heating System Discovered in 1,700-Year-Old Roman Bath 1 Judi Lynn Aug 25 Aug 25 18 1374
Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold--not the tropics 6 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 25 20 1689
Urban civilization rose in Southern Mesopotamia on the back of tides 2 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 6 538
New Evidence Suggests Humans May Have Used Bows and Arrows Earlier Than Expected 3 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 14 694
Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from 4 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 23 927
Humans Aren't as Special as We Once Thought 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 23 1056
Ancient shells and pottery reveal the vast 3,200-years-old trade routes of Oceania's Indigenous peoples 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 13 509
Outrage over plans to house battery megasite next to ancient rock art 1 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 7 514
Canadian Archaeologists Excavate Homestead of Black Rancher John Ware 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 9 507
Stone Age Farmers Settled Near Dortmund Airport 7,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 4 475
70,000-Year-Old Paleolithic Neanderthal Workshop Found 3 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 56 1799
3,500-Year-Old Opal Workshop and Rare Lithophones Unearthed in Vietnam 1 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 12 592
Archaeologists discover 'miracle' in ancient Egyptian tomb 0 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 18 1673
Isotope ratios provide a window into prehistoric diets 0 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 8 552

Anthropology Continued...

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See 'hyperrealistic' reconstructions of 2 Stone Age sisters who worked in brutal mine in the Czech Republic 6,000 years 2 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 5 18 931
Stunning Tattoos Discovered on Siberian Mummy From 2,000 Years Ago 1 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 7 668
Some Early Hominins Evolved to Walk Upright While Still Living in Trees 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 15 659
Our Ancient Ancestors Loved Eating Grasses, and It Eventually Transformed Their Teeth 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 10 687
Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 22 876
Why Is The Great Rift Valley So Important In Our Understanding Of Human Evolution? 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 12 591
Prehistoric Humans Began Eating Tubers 700,000 Years Before Our Teeth Evolved To Do So 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 507
Were Humans in Thailand Getting High Off Betel Nuts 4,000 Years Ago? 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 5 503
Archaeologists battle the tide to save Orkney's ancient secrets 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 524
Archaeologists have found 'doorway to the afterlife' in ancient Egypt discovery 2 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 30 1296
Rare 5,000-Year-Old Neolithic Monument in Northern England Granted Protected Status 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 499
Hear What the World's Oldest Song From Over 3,400 Years Sounds Like 10 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Aug 2 43 2229
Ancient canoe replica tests Paleolithic migration theory 3 Reader Rabbit Jul 30 Jul 30 8 729
Newly Deciphered Cuneiform Tablet Contains Unknown Sumerian Myth 14 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 27 1435
Precious finger traces from First Nations ancestors revealed in a glittering mountain cave in Australia 1 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 10 653
Ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs reemerge on Oahu's shores after years of being hidden 1 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 18 748
Archaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empire 2 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 49 1932
Before Rome, Before Greece: Anatolia's Oldest Glass Revealed in Hittite Bklkale 1 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 14 710
12,000-Year-Old Grid-Plan Structures and Water Channel Discovered at ayn Mound 0 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 6 647
Horrifying evidence of ancient humans cannibalising children emerges as toddler's remains excavated 0 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 6 721
Secret underground tunnels discovered in ruins of 4,300-year-old Chinese city 0 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 3 618
Mysterious ancient pyramids known as 'Giant's Graves' have been discovered in Europe 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 35 1502
3,500-Year-Old Rice Discovery Marks Longest Early Ocean Journey 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 22 1168
1st-ever Denisovan skull identified thanks to DNA analysis 0 muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 Jul 2025 16 742
Europe's oldest lake settlement uncovered in Albania 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 663
Lost tomb of Egyptian 'wizard doctor' reveals amazing evidence of ancient knowledge 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 13 969
Ancient rituals revealed: 6,000-year-old complex found in Trkiye 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 754
Skara Brae: The Scottish village older than the Pyramids 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 16 902
The First-Ever Whole Genome of an Ancient Egyptian Reveals What Life Was Like 4,800 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 730
Humans Felt The Effects of Weird Space Weather 41,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 715

Anthropology Continued...

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Indigenous rangers join WA's Burrup Peninsula underwater heritage survey 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 526
This Ancient City May Have Been Ruled by Women, DNA Reveals 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 21 939
Scientists Find Aztec 'Death Whistles' do Weird Things to the Listeners' Brains 5 Reader Rabbit Jul 2025 Jul 2025 15 1154
Lost Babylonian Hymn Deciphered 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 813
Archeologists uncover evidence of massive 6,000-year-old timber hall in Scotland 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 862
Researchers Sequence Whole Genome of Ancient Egyptian 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 748
Iliad in ancient greek pronunciation (substack link) 0 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 694
Textile archaeology 4 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 938
Neanderthals Operated "Fat Factories" 125,000 Years Ago 9 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 52 2440
5,000 year-old ancient Egyptian genome reveals links to an ancient civilisation 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 902
Archaeologists discover mysterious mummies in Chinese desert 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1011
What Our World May Have Looked Like If Neanderthals Hadn't Died Off 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1134
Men traded wares - but women traded knowledge: what a new archaeological study tells us about PNG sea trade 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 15 803
Metallic door frame, said to be of Vijayanagar period, with sculptures of Lord Vishnu's dashavatara found at Perdoor in 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 14 867
Rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools found in China reveal diet secrets of early humans 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 968
Did the Romans bring lions to England to maul criminals and prisoners of war to death for gruesome entertainment? 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 827
Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 704
300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools "Made By Denisovans" Discovered In China 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 19 902
Long-Lost Nile City Unearthed Beneath Egypt By Declan Gallagher Men's Journal Updated 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 840
Zanzibar's baobab trees used to be a valued part of society - drone images help prove it 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 19 968
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