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Genetic fossil': intact DNA from woman who lived 7,200 years ago discovered in Indonesia 1 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 Aug 2021 9 1564
In the Land of the Ancient Ones 0 Kali Aug 2021 Aug 2021 5 1428
2,000-year-old flower offerings found under Teotihuacan pyramid in Mexico 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 5 1302
Dispelling false claims of cannibalistic caribs--again 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 1 1165
Paintings from 65,000 yrs ago attributed to Neanderthal 12 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 11 2580
A new angle on ancient trigonometry 4 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 7 1494
Levelling up Pompeii: grave shows how a former slave went far 0 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 Aug 2021 8 1295
Underwater probe for prehistoric traces under Lake Lucerne 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 5 1248
Neanderthals painted stalagmites red 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 5 1278
When Armed With Hammers, Orangutans Can Individually Learn How To Crack Nuts 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 3 1100
Meet Nesher Ramla Homo: New form of human found 8 left-of-center2012 Aug 2021 Aug 2021 11 2450
Eight-Foot-Tall, 1,600-Year-Old Statue of Pagan Deity Found in Ireland 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 13 1786
When We Met Other Human Species 8 Uncle Joe Aug 2021 Aug 2021 10 2326
Warmest Tent on Earth - Pitching in the Siberian Arctic Winter - Ненецкая палатка чум 2 Uncle Joe Aug 2021 Aug 2021 8 1378
The Mysterious Palpa Geoglypglyphs 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 8 1634
How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends 1 Uncle Joe Aug 2021 Aug 2021 10 1244
Have any human societies ever lived underground? 4 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 16 1488
How do we decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics and other ancient languages? 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 8 1469
An immense mystery older than Stonehenge 18 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 Aug 2021 66 6902
1,000-year-old remains in Finland may be non-binary iron age leader 4 Eugene Aug 2021 Aug 2021 8 2407
UK court overturns govt go-ahead for Stonehenge road tunnel 6 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Aug 2021 19 2452
The Maya's ingenious secret to survival 5 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 29 3124
17,300-year-old Kimberley kangaroo recognised as Australia's oldest rock artwork 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 12 1483
2,400-year-old baskets of fruit discovered in ancient Egyptian city under the sea 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 13 1553
Viking 'amulet factory' discovery forces rethink of enigmatic artifacts 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 12 1837
The oldest known tattoo tools were found at an ancient Tennessee site 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 7 1413
'World's oldest' coin factory discovered in China 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 3 1306
Editorial: Jomon World Heritage listing to highlight ancient Japan's deep ties to nature 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Aug 2021 4 2284
Spanish cave paintings confirmed to have been made by the Neanderthals 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 11 1663
These Millennia-Old Cave Paintings May Be Among India's Oldest 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 14 1519

Anthropology Continued...

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Mexican Archaeologists Forced to Bury an Unusual Discovery Made in Old Aztec Capital 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 5 1393
The Gladiatrix - The Roman gladiators that were women 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 3 1641
Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows 5 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2021 Jul 2021 6 2345
Scientists hail stunning 'Dragon Man' discovery 6 Warpy Jun 2021 Jul 2021 11 2487
Ancient Peruvian Sun calendar declared UN heritage site 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 7 1807
Chile's ancient mummies added to UN heritage list 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 2 1264
Ancient ship and burial ground discovered in underwater city in Egypt 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 11 1490
Last Meal of History's Most Famous 'Bog Body' Hints at Human Sacrifice 2 Warpy Jul 2021 Jul 2021 5 2123
Cuneiform inscription from last king of Babylon discovered in Saudi Arabia 4 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 10 1919
Palenque's Temple of the Sun. 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 10 1479
What is techno-anthropology? 0 Tikki Jul 2021 Jul 2021 0 1394
The Genome of a Human From an Unknown Population Has Been Recovered From Cave Dirt 4 Warpy Jul 2021 Jul 2021 9 2790
8,200-year-old lacquerware found in east China 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 15 1677
The secret lives of Neanderthal children 6 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2021 Jul 2021 67 4181
Homo Who? A New Mystery Human Species Has Been Discovered in Israel 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 19 1693
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 1310
These Medieval Islamic Tombs in Sudan Were Laid Out Like Galaxies 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 7 1545
The 3,000-Year-Old Bones of a Master Ceramicist Show Unusual Signs of Wear 4 Warpy Jul 2021 Jul 2021 30 3138
Beautiful Bone Carving From 51,000 Years Ago Is Changing Our View of Neanderthals 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 16 1795
Ancient Roman road found hidden in Bosnian forest 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 28 2587
Twin Viking Babies Found in a Surprisingly Christian-Looking Burial in Sweden 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 9 1654
4,000-Year-Old 'Snake Staff' Discovered in Finland 2 left-of-center2012 Jul 2021 Jul 2021 10 1767
Bronze Age 'infinity pool' hosted supernatural water rituals, archaeologists say 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jul 2021 14 1996
Ancient culture had exchanges with distant societies 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 8 1695
Antarctica was likely discovered 1,100 years before Westerners 'found' it 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 4 1788
Possible shaman's snake stick from 4,400 years ago discovered in a Finnish lake 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 12 1507
Metal detectorist unearths rare gold coins from Black Death period 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 8 1768
'Dragon Man': Scientists in China say new human species is our closest ancestor 1 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 9 1820
New prehistoric human unknown to science discovered in Israel 1 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 8 1379
Bridge made of string: Peruvians weave 500-year-old Incan crossing back into place 9 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 19 3823

Anthropology Continued...

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The real urban jungle: how ancient societies reimagined what cities could be 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 2 1678
Iron age people were emotionally attached to objects, research shows 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 6 1622
Spiro Mounds: North America's lost civilisation 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 4 1224
Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 10 1857
Is This Florida Island Home to a Long-Lost Native American Settlement? 1 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 15 2083
Colombia: a country with no history of its civilizations 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 3 1278
Prehistoric carvings of red deer found in Scottish neolithic tomb 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 8 2617
If Neanderthals and Sapiens were separate species 12 prodigitalson May 2021 Jun 2021 2 4245
The First Australians grew to a population of millions 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 11 2586
Study sheds light on pre-Columbian life in understudied area of SW Amazon 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 10 1649
Indigenous Peoples Were Stewards of the Western Amazon 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 2 1137
Remains of 4,500-year-old bamboo-mud cabin found in China 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 2 1270
Shackled skeleton identified as rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain 7 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 8 2250
14,000-Year-Old Fossilized Poop Among Oldest Traces of Humans in North America 5 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 10 2094
Mexico raids building project next to Teotihuacan pyramids 3 Eugene Jun 2021 Jun 2021 8 1974
Ancient Australian Aboriginal memory tool superior to 'memory palace' learning 7 Judi Lynn May 2021 May 2021 14 2696
Innocent-Looking Jar From 2,300 Years Ago Holds 'Curse' Against 55 People in Athens 3 Warpy May 2021 May 2021 3 2126
New Findings on Santorini Point to "Lost Island of Atlantis" Origins 5 Judi Lynn May 2021 May 2021 11 2674
Ancient Civilizations of the Americas 6 wnylib May 2021 May 2021 6 2429
Palm oil plantations change the social behavior of macaques 0 Judi Lynn May 2021 May 2021 1 1506
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