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Fossilized Fish Teeth Could Be Earliest Evidence of Cooking 2 Eugene Nov 2022 Nov 2022 7 1059
Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered - on a head-lice comb 2 Eugene Nov 2022 Nov 2022 8 1274
Did Ancient Humans Use Echolocation? 5 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 6 1226
Book Review: A Psychologist Plumbs the Cultural Roots of Emotion 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 839
Neanderthals: how a carnivore diet may have led to their demise 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 4 889
Ancient peoples in South America had both Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA -- and we have no clue how it 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 11 1316
Two Elko Residents Sentenced To Prison For Graffiti At Sacred White River Narrows Petroglyph Site 14 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 20 2257
Archaeologists discover nearly 3,000-year-old rock carvings in ancient city in Iraq 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 9 841
ANCIENT WATER SYSTEM UNCOVERED AT ROMAN STABIAE 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 2 752
100 years after Tutankhamun discovery new finds reveal more of ancient Egypt's secrets 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 24 1561
Human exceptionalism imposes horrible costs on other animals 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 2 735
Anthropologists Find New Ways Female Bones Are Permanently Altered After Giving Birth 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 962
The Woman Who Saved Native Song 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 7 718
Rare medieval script discovered on stone carved by Scotland's 'Painted People' 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 17 1323
Prehistoric DNA Reveals Two Groups Migrated to the U.K. After the Last Ice Age 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 32 1563
Analysis and Interpretation of a Unique Arabic Finger Ring from the Viking Age Town of Birka, Sweden 3 sl8 Oct 2022 Nov 2022 7 1361
Russian asylum seekers who took a boat to Alaska are Indigenous Siberians. 6 elleng Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 1408
Neanderthal family life revealed by ancient DNA from Siberian cave 7 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 15 1467
This Interactive Map Shows Which Indigenous Lands You Live On 28 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 39 4604
Drone photos reveal an early Mesopotamian city made of marsh islands 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 19 1734
Norwich timber henge burnt in Neolithic winter solstice excavated 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 8 1000
Neanderthals and modern humans may have copied each other's tools 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 6 1177
Superhighway of ancient human and animal footprints in England provides an 'amazing snapshot of the 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 19 1370
Neanderthal DNA might be linked to smoking, drinking, sleeping patterns in modern humans: study 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 1207
'Rare' Roman mosaic found in Rastan, Syria 9 Wicked Blue Oct 2022 Oct 2022 9 1625
Ancient Amazonians, unknown until recently, built towering mounds and reshaped the landscape 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 1702
What Do Stonehenge and Japanese Stone Circles Have in Common? 11 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 14 1829
Artificial Islands Around British Isles Were Used by Elites for Ancient Parties to Show Wealth and P 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Oct 2022 4 1617
Viking Women Were Power Weavers Whose Textiles Provided Vital Trade Across Europe, Researchers Say 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 13 1367
Study of Buddhist monks suggests celibacy can have surprising evolutionary advantages 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 1575

Anthropology Continued...

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Beads show European trade in African interior used Indigenous routes 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 813
See the striking facial reconstruction of a Paleolithic woman who lived 31,000 years ago 9 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 44 4248
Artificial islands surrounding British Isles were used for ancient parties, archaeologists find 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 13 954
A second ancient canoe is found in Wisconsin -- this time tracing back to 1000 B.C. 8 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 Sep 2022 19 2091
Archaeologists Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Structure Older Than Stonehenge or Pyramids of Giza 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 14 1449
What's the world's oldest civilization? 10 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 32 3032
Can we talk about modern Social Anthropology here? 14 Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 2113
Brochs: The mysterious circular symbols of Scotland 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 26 2095
Indigenous Sea Gardens Fed Communities, Preserved Ecosystems 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 8 1090
Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 9 968
Chinese researchers discover world's earliest synthesized lead white cosmetics 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 1102
twitter thread: example of architecture from every single country 5 BootinUp Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 1373
Human Skin Didn't Always Fear The Sun, Not Until A Huge Change 10,000 Years Ago 6 Warpy Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 2121
World's Oldest Evidence of Surgical Amputation Lay Hidden For 31,000 Years 0 Warpy Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 1239
Indigenous Americans ruled democratically long before the U.S. did 5 DBoon Sep 2022 Sep 2022 12 1373
"Ancient Civilizations of North America" free on Amazon Prime until 9/30/22....... 13 Jade Fox Sep 2022 Sep 2022 13 2805
DNA STUDY SHEDS LIGHT ON 'MISSING LINK' IN BIRTH OF INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 10 elleng Sep 2022 Sep 2022 10 1998
RESEARCHERS DOCUMENT 1,000-YEAR-OLD PAINTINGS EXCAVATED IN SUDAN 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Sep 2022 5 1004
Vast paleogenetic study reveals insights on migration, farming and language development 1 elleng Sep 2022 Sep 2022 7 1277
Scientists Amazed to Find 1,400-Year-Old Folding Chair in Woman's Grave 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 15 1154
Who were the Vandals, the 'barbarians' who sacked Rome? 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 9 1098
Rival teams of male dolphins form the animal world's biggest social networks, long-running study fin 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 12 2474
Study: Vikings were not the first to settle the Faroe Islands 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 5 889
Bodies Found In Medieval Well Probably Victims Of An Anti-Semitic Massacre 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 6 907
Khufu branch of Nile River once flowed close enough to Giza to carry the stones needed to build the 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 1094
Scythian arrowheads and Bronze Age dwelling uncovered in Ukraine 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 3 721
The last person who touched this three-bladed arrowhead was a Viking 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 17 1509
Centuries-old tools reveal how the Chikasha people fought off conquistadors 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 6 953
Cornwall's ancient village with underground tunnels that nobody can explain 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 13 1247
Oldest human-made structure in the Americas is older than the Egyptian pyramids 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 13 1500

Anthropology Continued...

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Creation of linguistic landscapes using ancient and contemporary Mayan writing 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 1053
Chief Justice overturns drilling approval at Aboriginal heritage site 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 13 1257
Traces of settlement dating back over 9,000 years discovered in Turkiye 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 1161
People Produced Beer in German Stonehenge Over 4,000 Years Ago 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 3 805
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 8 765
Glacier archaeologists find a 1300-year-old arrow in melting ice 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 31 2016
Map may prove 'Welsh Atlantis' rooted in fact, say academics 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 27 1859
'Spanish Stonehenge' dating back 7,000 years emerges as water levels recede 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 24 1978
Urartian chamber tomb, water channel discovered in Trkiye's Van 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 860
New discoveries at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 11 768
Archaeologists find ice age footprints of earliest North Americans 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 11 1066
The incredible case of the only known individual whose parents were two different species 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 30 2104
'Plaza' in ancient city of Cahokia near today's St. Louis was likely inundated year-round 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 17 1480
Enormous Underground City Uncovered in Turkey 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 15 1307
How Breaking Bad and an Infamous Economist Can Explain the Viking Age 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 5 1282
40,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Cave Chamber Discovered in Gibraltar 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 18 1289
Temple Dedicated to the Sun God Unearthed in Egypt 4 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 8 1310
Historic secrets unearthed by archaeologists before the sea claims them 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 10 1065
Horned helmets came from Bronze Age artists, not Vikings 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 12 1181
High-status Danish Vikings wore exotic beaver furs 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 3 1099
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