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Australian bushfires may have damaged thousands of Aboriginal sites 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1299
Ancient Vesuvius eruption turned victim's brain to a glassy rock in rare, poorly understood process 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 5 1280
Anthropologists confirm existence of specialized sheep-hunting camp in prehistoric Lebanon 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1238
Mysterious 'Ghost Tribe' discovered as scientists recover Stone Age DNA 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 12 1425
14th-Century Steam Bath Found in Mexico City 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 1 1235
50 Graves of Slaves Who Toiled at a Roman Villa Unearthed in England 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1696
Peru's Pachacamac Idol Analyzed 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 0 1408
How Did Humans Come to the Americas? 2 left-of-center2012 Jan 2020 Jan 2020 5 1321
Who Decided to Put 60 Seconds in a Minute? 2 left-of-center2012 Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1536
Oldest Temple in the world: Over 11,000 years old Gbekli Tepe in Turkey shows the artistic genius o 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Jan 2020 12 1888
Easter Island's Monoliths Made the Crops Grow 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 25 3487
Mexico City gold was Aztec loot Spanish abandoned as they fled in 1520, tests show 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1281
How Did Cahokian Farmers Feed North America's Largest Indigenous City? 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1353
Early humans revealed to have engineered optimized stone tools at Olduvai Gorge 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1181
Monkeys smashing nuts with stones hint at how human tool use evolved 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1295
Ancient rock art at Carnarvon Gorge destroyed after walkway explodes in bushfire 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1214
Early Humans May Have Scavenged More than They Hunted 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1163
Viking runestone may allude to extreme winter, study says 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1292
A handful of recent discoveries have shattered anthropologists' picture of where humans came from, a 14 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 27 3584
Chimps Have Been Caught Throwing Rocks at Trees And Yelling For No Apparent Reason 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1449
Discovery of ancient Egyptian beads sheds new light on historic trade routes 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1168
Seafaring South Americans began settling Greater Antilles 5,800 years ago 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1186
Demon Drawing Spotted on Assyrian Clay Tablet 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1416
Archaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta Warriors 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1426
Subtle Ancient Footprints Come to Light 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1102
Ancient copper smelting ruins discovered in SW China 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1066
Divers to retrieve Bronze Age artefacts from Swiss lake 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 987
Chimpanzees learn to crack nuts faster than humans 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 980
Researchers Discover Walruses Were Involved in the Mysterious Disappearance of Greenland's Norse Col 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1461
170,000-Year-Old Cooked Starch Found in South Africa 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1579

Anthropology Continued...

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Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics? 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 1 1178
Tomb Containing Three Generations of Warrior Women Unearthed in Russia 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1110
Denisovan Research Reveals That Early Humans Were More Complex Than We Thought 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1172
Study reveals music's universal patterns across societies worldwide 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 983
Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology combines earthquake science with Indigenous knowledge 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 0 983
5 Big Archaeology Discoveries to Watch for in 2020 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 5 1410
Giant birds may help scientists finally solve the mystery of the Nazca lines 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 5 1491
This Cave Contains the Oldest Story Ever Recorded 15 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 42 4548
Surprise: Ancient Inuit Mummy Scans Reveal Possible Heart Disease 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 1021
Archaeologists found the burial of Scythian Amazon with a head dress on Don 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 1680
The Irish Pigged Out on Pork in a 'Mammoth' Iron Age Building 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 13 1193
Archaeologists Are Unearthing the Stories of the Past Faster Than Ever Before 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 1083
Kulub: Dig uncovers large Mayan palace in Mexico 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 1904
Te Lapa: Mysterious island lights that help Polynesians navigate 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 10 1710
What Is the Second Greatest Mystery in Anthropology? 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 5 1623
World's oldest figurative artwork uncovered 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 26 3479
Archaeologists in Greece find 3,500-year-old royal tombs 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 6 1366
Isotope analysis points to prisoners of war, 1,400 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 1018
Fossil Whale Shows Transition Stage to Tail-Powered Swimming 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 910
Archaeologists Unearth Beads Made of Human Teeth in Ancient Turkish City 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 1214
Scientists discover ancient gum and recover human DNA: 1 Laffy Kat Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 1107
What ancient homes looked like, from the Egyptians to the Aztecs 4 mfcorey1 Dec 2019 Dec 2019 22 2961
Neolithic chewing gum helps recreate image of ancient Dane 0 Eugene Dec 2019 Dec 2019 8 1255
Small-scale atlatl artifacts suggest children were taught how to use them 3 Jim__ Dec 2019 Dec 2019 7 1402
Buried Christian (and Pagan) Basilica Discovered in Ethiopia's 'Lost Kingdom' of Aksum 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 7 1075
Photos: Carvings Depict Maya Ballplayers in Action 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 4 1194
Painting in the Americas before European colonization 8 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 42 5108
Like Neanderthals, early modern humans used their teeth as tools 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 1600
Time to ditch the harmful myth of the 'noble' hunter-gatherer 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 8 1263
Bones of ape living 12m years ago point to genesis of upright walking 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 5 1590

Anthropology Continued...

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Unique sled dogs helped the inuit thrive in the North American Arctic 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 2 1174
Most Notable Royal Inbreeding Throughout History and the Craziness that Ensued 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1677
Archaeologists tie ancient bones to a revolt chronicled on the Rosetta Stone 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 10 1207
Warrior woman: Ella Al-Shamahi on the female Viking fighters who held their own on the battlefield 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1170
How Dogs and People Ended Up Ruling the World 5 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1548
Cave lion figurine made of woolly mammoth tusk found at Denisova Cave 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 24 2122
Ancient Armenian Female Warrior Suffered Hatchet Wounds And Arrow Blow Before Death 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 12 1838
Painstaking clean-up of Scottish Viking hoard unlocks new secrets 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 14 1293
The mystery of Harappan script: An enigma from the ancient world 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1268
Two-Horned 'Rook' Might Be the Oldest Chess Piece on Earth 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 6 1256
300,000 years ago, nine human species lived on Earth. Did homo sapiens exterminate the others? 12 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 18 2822
Greece's Naxos Island May Have Been Inhabited 200,000 Years Ago 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 21 2181
Universality and diversity in human song 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1282
Jewelry made from HUMAN TEETH found in the ruins of 9000-year-old Turkish city, 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1076
Physicists Just Created the Most Detailed Simulation of the Universe in History 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 10 1515
Before We Find Aliens, Humans Need to Figure Ourselves Out, Anthropologist Says 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1440
Japan team finds 143 stunning new images in Nazca Lines of Peru 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 15 1450
The technology of enchantment 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1158
Archaeologists find ancient site older than Machu Picchu 11 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 38 5452
Bolivia, before the Spanish invasion, had "floating gardens," too, like Mexico. 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 1 1392
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