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2,400-year-old baskets of fruit discovered in ancient Egyptian city under the sea 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 13 1363
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The oldest known tattoo tools were found at an ancient Tennessee site 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 7 1235
'World's oldest' coin factory discovered in China 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 3 1088
Editorial: Jomon World Heritage listing to highlight ancient Japan's deep ties to nature 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Aug 2021 4 1851
Spanish cave paintings confirmed to have been made by the Neanderthals 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 11 1408
These Millennia-Old Cave Paintings May Be Among India's Oldest 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 14 1322
Mexican Archaeologists Forced to Bury an Unusual Discovery Made in Old Aztec Capital 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 5 1230
The Gladiatrix - The Roman gladiators that were women 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 3 1369
Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows 5 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2021 Jul 2021 6 1847

Anthropology Continued...

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Scientists hail stunning 'Dragon Man' discovery 6 Warpy Jun 2021 Jul 2021 11 2014
Ancient Peruvian Sun calendar declared UN heritage site 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 7 1602
Chile's ancient mummies added to UN heritage list 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 2 930
Ancient ship and burial ground discovered in underwater city in Egypt 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 11 1275
Last Meal of History's Most Famous 'Bog Body' Hints at Human Sacrifice 2 Warpy Jul 2021 Jul 2021 5 1866
Cuneiform inscription from last king of Babylon discovered in Saudi Arabia 4 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 10 1565
Palenque's Temple of the Sun. 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 10 1306
What is techno-anthropology? 0 Tikki Jul 2021 Jul 2021 0 1164
The Genome of a Human From an Unknown Population Has Been Recovered From Cave Dirt 4 Warpy Jul 2021 Jul 2021 9 2391
8,200-year-old lacquerware found in east China 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 15 1515
The secret lives of Neanderthal children 6 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2021 Jul 2021 67 3767
Homo Who? A New Mystery Human Species Has Been Discovered in Israel 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 19 1408
China's Liangzhu Ancient City unveils 3D replicas of 5,000-year-old wooden pillars for first time 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 5 1121
These Medieval Islamic Tombs in Sudan Were Laid Out Like Galaxies 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 7 1305
The 3,000-Year-Old Bones of a Master Ceramicist Show Unusual Signs of Wear 4 Warpy Jul 2021 Jul 2021 30 2789
Beautiful Bone Carving From 51,000 Years Ago Is Changing Our View of Neanderthals 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 16 1591
Ancient Roman road found hidden in Bosnian forest 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 28 2335
Twin Viking Babies Found in a Surprisingly Christian-Looking Burial in Sweden 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 9 1470
4,000-Year-Old 'Snake Staff' Discovered in Finland 2 left-of-center2012 Jul 2021 Jul 2021 10 1525
Bronze Age 'infinity pool' hosted supernatural water rituals, archaeologists say 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jul 2021 14 1724
Ancient culture had exchanges with distant societies 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 8 1463
Antarctica was likely discovered 1,100 years before Westerners 'found' it 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 4 1488
Possible shaman's snake stick from 4,400 years ago discovered in a Finnish lake 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 12 1329
Metal detectorist unearths rare gold coins from Black Death period 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 8 1501
'Dragon Man': Scientists in China say new human species is our closest ancestor 1 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 9 1555
New prehistoric human unknown to science discovered in Israel 1 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 8 1189
Bridge made of string: Peruvians weave 500-year-old Incan crossing back into place 9 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 19 3031
The real urban jungle: how ancient societies reimagined what cities could be 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 2 1469
Iron age people were emotionally attached to objects, research shows 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 6 1328
Spiro Mounds: North America's lost civilisation 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 4 1047

Anthropology Continued...

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Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 10 1665
Is This Florida Island Home to a Long-Lost Native American Settlement? 1 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 15 1874
Colombia: a country with no history of its civilizations 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 3 1079
Prehistoric carvings of red deer found in Scottish neolithic tomb 2 Judi Lynn May 2021 Jun 2021 8 2350
If Neanderthals and Sapiens were separate species 12 prodigitalson May 2021 Jun 2021 2 3390
The First Australians grew to a population of millions 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 11 2346
Study sheds light on pre-Columbian life in understudied area of SW Amazon 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 10 1482
Indigenous Peoples Were Stewards of the Western Amazon 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 2 976
Remains of 4,500-year-old bamboo-mud cabin found in China 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 2 1095
Shackled skeleton identified as rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain 7 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 8 1823
14,000-Year-Old Fossilized Poop Among Oldest Traces of Humans in North America 5 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 10 1709
Mexico raids building project next to Teotihuacan pyramids 3 Eugene Jun 2021 Jun 2021 8 1616
Ancient Australian Aboriginal memory tool superior to 'memory palace' learning 7 Judi Lynn May 2021 May 2021 14 2237
Innocent-Looking Jar From 2,300 Years Ago Holds 'Curse' Against 55 People in Athens 3 Warpy May 2021 May 2021 3 1821
New Findings on Santorini Point to "Lost Island of Atlantis" Origins 5 Judi Lynn May 2021 May 2021 11 2216
Ancient Civilizations of the Americas 6 wnylib May 2021 May 2021 6 1945
Palm oil plantations change the social behavior of macaques 0 Judi Lynn May 2021 May 2021 1 1318
Orkney is a prehistoric phenomenon, where Neolithic remains continue to surface 2 Judi Lynn May 2021 May 2021 22 2075
HOW A SEARCHABLE DATABASE IS HELPING DECIPHER A LOST LANGUAGE 3 Judi Lynn May 2021 May 2021 14 1515
Seeing the garden through the trees: The Indigenous forest gardens of coastal B.C. 2 Judi Lynn May 2021 May 2021 11 1519
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