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Humans May Have Been Crafting Stone Tools for 2.6 Million Years 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 1156
Ancient DNA Reveals Complex Story of Human Migration Between Siberia and North America 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 1196
Did the Maya Really Sacrifice Their Ballgame Players? 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 1412
Greek Farmer Discovers 3,400-Year-Old Tomb Hidden Just Below His Olive Grove 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 8 1403
Chew on this: Ancient Scandinavians tasted gum 10,000 years ago 4 Judi Lynn May 2019 Jun 2019 5 1640
14,000-year-old cave footprints provide snapshot of Stone Age family day out 4 Soph0571 May 2019 Jun 2019 38 4180
Bonobo mothers meddle in their sons' sex lives, making them 3 times more likely to father children 4 milestogo May 2019 May 2019 3 1623
Analysis of Ancient DNA Suggests Finnish and Estonian Languages Came From Siberia 0 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 5 1427
2,300-Year-Old Bark Shield Showcases a Previously Unknown Iron Age Technology 0 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 6 1226
Large Mound in Russia Reveals 2,500-Year-Old Skeletons of Elite Nomadic Tribesmen...And a Horse Head 4 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 7 1435
King Tut Wore Ancient, Meteor-Blasted Yellow Glass 0 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 11 1150
Ancient tomb discovered in Egypt dating back 4,500 years 4 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 6 1440
'It would destroy it': new international airport for Machu Picchu sparks outrage 7 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 14 2455
Humans Crawled Through a Cave 14,000 Years Ago. We Can Still See Their Perfectly Preserved Footprint 2 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 19 1609
Uncovering a 5000-year-old family tragedy 5 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 10 1953
Stellaris 'Ancient Relics' expansion lets you investigate precursor civilizations 0 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 0 1069
160 ancient tombs discovered in central China 1 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 4 1037
Britain's equivalent to Tutankhamun found in Southend-On-Sea 2 nitpicker May 2019 May 2019 4 1167
Missing part of Stonehenge returned 60 years on 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 5 1163
Ancient hallucinogens found in 1,000-year-old shamanic pouch 1 Richard D May 2019 May 2019 9 1368
Biggest Denisovan fossil yet spills ancient human's secrets 0 jpak May 2019 May 2019 22 1329
Mummies Unwrapped exclusive: Ramy enters tomb filled with Cloud People skeletons 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1502
Footprint found in Chile is 'oldest' in Americas: scientists 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 11 1349
Archaeological discovery at the site of Pachacamac 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1199
Steady Supply Of Beer Kept Ancient Wari Empire Intact For 500 Years 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1234
Knotted Strings And Chili Peppers Add Up To New Evidence For Taxation In The Inka Empire 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 996
Ancient Tomb of Mysterious Man Named Tjt Discovered in Egypt 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 6 1217
Dennis Stanford has passed. 5 bluedigger Apr 2019 Apr 2019 7 3156
Easter Island's famous moai statues slowly fading away 6 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 24 4208
Evolution of the human face points to a non-violent past 16 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 23 6057

Anthropology Continued...

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Copper culture shapes ancient history 3 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1227
Cave Paintings Suggest Ancient Humans Understood the Stars Much Better Than We Thought 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 8 1350
Crusader armies were remarkably genetically diverse, study finds 1 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1283
Evidence of rabbits in UK in Roman times, say academics 1 nitpicker Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1082
Water Pipeline Workers Stumble Across Dozens of Iron Age Skeletons 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1079
Researchers interpret Cherokee inscriptions in Alabama cave 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 6 1405
Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of builders 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 15 1219
Depression-Era Workers Found Strange Fossilized Beasts in 'Texas Serengeti' 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 12 1378
Neolithic dog reveals tales behind Orkney's monuments 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 20 1455
You Are What You Eat: Neanderthals, Woolly Mammoths Apparently Shared Genetic Traits 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1065
Dragons: A Brief History of the Mythical, Fire-Breathing Beasts 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1223
The First Cave Art from the Balkans May Date Back 30,000 Years 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 962
New discovery throws light on mystery of pyramids' construction 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 32 1632
MYSTERY 8,000-YEAR-OLD ABANDONED STRUCTURE DISCOVERED WITH DECLASSIFIED IMAGES FROM COLD WAR SPY PLA 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 29 1973
The Human Brain Has been Getting Smaller Since the Stone Age 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1324
Norway Will Repatriate Thousands of Artifacts Taken From Easter Island 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1019
Gorillas Appear to Grieve for Their Dead 1 milestogo Apr 2019 Apr 2019 10 1257
Faces of medieval Scots reconstructed after remains found 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 23 1798
4,000-YEAR-OLD ROCK ART DEPICTING DANCING TRIBE CELEBRATING BIRTH DISCOVERED IN CHINA 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1284
Archaeologists discover 'exceptional' site at Lake Titicaca 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 7 1163
"Fast Food" Establishment Discovered in Pompeii 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1440
Polish Academics Protest Abuse of Term 'Anthropology' in Antisemitic Newspaper's Headline 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 961
Etruscan tomb in Corsica may yield secrets on civilization's decline 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1023
What Can Fingerprints Tell Us About Ancient Artisans? 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 860
Researchers find ancient Maya farms in Mexican wetlands 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1117
This Silly, Bug-Eyed Dwarf Deity Was Defender of 'Everything Good' 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 6 1208
Norway's Kon-Tiki museum to return thousands of Easter Island artefacts 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1015
Warm weather pushed Neanderthals into cannibalism 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1140
Archaeologists Find Bound Bodies Of Enslaved Africans In Portuguese Trash Dump 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1155
Widespread tool-using chimp culture discovered in Democratic Republic of Congo 1 milestogo Mar 2019 Mar 2019 11 1268

Anthropology Continued...

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Exclusive: Aztec war sacrifices found in Mexico may point to elusive royal tomb 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 2097
Archaeological Geneticists Call Jack The Ripper DNA Study 'Unpublishable Nonsense' 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1224
Ancient Monkey Bone Tools Shake Up the Narrative of Early Human Migration to the Rain Forest 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1279
Death Mask of Pakal the Great 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 9 2051
Birds and Humans Are Depicted Together in This Rare Scene From 12,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1275
Holy fudge: soft foods helped humans form 'f' and 'v' sounds - study 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1223
Mary Rose crew might have included sailors of African heritage 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1022
Babylonian treasure seized at Heathrow to be returned to Iraq 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1341
Stone Age Cave Symbols May All Be Part of a Single Prehistoric Proto-Writing System 11 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 31 2758
Ancient civilization sacrificed more than 100 of their children to stop bad weather, say archaelogis 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 5 1131
'A big jump': People might have lived in Australia twice as long as we thought 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1276
Maya ritual cave 'untouched' for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists 5 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 15 1728
History's largest child sacrifice was a response to devastating weather, archaeologists say 1 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1349
Mystery of human skull defleshed and boiled by ancient farmers 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1321
Researchers uncover evidence of Indigenous aquaculture 3,500 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1075
This Is How Different Cultures Grieve With Food 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 7 1307
Searching for the ships Cortés burned before destroying the Aztecs 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 996
Ming Dynasty Skeletons Reveal Secrets of Foot-Binding 13 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Mar 2019 8 3102
A 2,000-year-old tattoo needle still has ink on the tip 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 5 1086
Human Generosity Study Shows Altruistic Societies Better Survive Hard Times 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 12 1196
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