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11 ancient sites that are mysteriously aligned with the sun on the winter solstice, in photos. 10 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 35 4007
Homo Sapiens May Not Have Been the First Species to Use Fire 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 10 1835
A Milanese friar mentions North America in 1345 text, 150 years before Columbus 12 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 25 4008
Over the holidays, try talking to your relatives like an anthropologist 14 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 32 4807
Archaeologists identify 4,000-year-old shaman's toolkit near Stonehenge 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 28 1989
Oldest scene in world: 11,000-year-old wall relief near Gbeklitepe 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 15 1636
Coloured portraits of mummies unearthed in EgyptArchaeologists Have Unearthed the First Full-Color P 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 5 1220
Medieval ship found in Norway's biggest lake 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 11 1454
Huge Roman fort in Northumberland to be excavated in lottery-backed project 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 4 876
Chimpanzee nut cracking leaves telltale marks on stones, providing clues to human evolution 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 1 913
Mysterious ancient humans may have given people of Papua New Guinea an immune advantage 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 3 994
Earliest known evidence of Maya calendar in Guatemala 1 wnylib Dec 2022 Dec 2022 7 1497
Early Clovis points found in Michigan 0 wnylib Dec 2022 Dec 2022 13 1314
Emperor king's top secret assassination letter finally decrypted after 500 years 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 6 1115
EUROPE'S OLDEST MAP DATES BACK OVER 4,000 YEARS INTO THE BRONZE AGE 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 13 1529
How different the world would look now if Neanderthals had won 16 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 14 3296
An exceptional collection of stucco masks is preserved in the archaeological zone of Tonin, Chiapas 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 7 1249
Neanderthals Cooked Surprisingly Complex Meals 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 18 1338
Archaeologists Find 1,900-Year-Old Snacks in Sewers Beneath the Colosseum 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 3 1293
Southeast Alaska village of Kake welcomes artifacts -- some over 200 years old -- back home 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 1 944
5,000-yr-old house ruins found in central China 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 6 1101
Homo naledi may have lit fires in underground caves at least 236,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 12 1151
Gold coin proves 'fake' Roman emperor was real 12 Wicked Blue Nov 2022 Dec 2022 35 4142
8 billion people: how different the world would look if Neanderthals had prevailed 9 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 10 2267
THE DEADLIEST MINING DISASTERS IN HISTORY 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 5 1207
It turns out that chimpanzees and gorillas can form lasting friendships 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 6 1493
The Hero in the Labyrinth The Pioneering Work of Joseph Campbell 7 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 16 2003
This 2,000-Year-Old Inscription Changes Our Understanding of the Basque Language 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 11 1290
Child Who Lived 8,000 Years Ago May Have Been Buried With a Wolf 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 14 1515
THE COUNTRY OF SCOTLAND HAS OVER 400 DIFFERENT WAYS TO TALK ABOUT SNOW 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 6 1293

Anthropology Continued...

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Good intentions and missed opportunities: The educational experiences of young refugees 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 902
Jacques Ellul And The Idols Of Transhumanism - Analysis 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 1 995
Auckland Museum returns four taonga to Aboriginal people 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 945
Soon After Dinosaur Decimation, Our Primate Ancestors Began Pouncing on Prey 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 4 991
ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXPLORE MYSTERIOUS UNDERWATER CAIRNS AT LAKE CONSTANCE 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 7 1581
Cave yields Neanderthals find Fossilised bone fragments of a father, teenage daughter and other rela 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 11 1350
Vast tunnel found beneath ancient Egyptian temple 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 18 1346
Cool leaf! Study records chimp showing off object in human-like way 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 1389
Fossilized Fish Teeth Could Be Earliest Evidence of Cooking 2 Eugene Nov 2022 Nov 2022 7 1511
Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered - on a head-lice comb 2 Eugene Nov 2022 Nov 2022 8 1698
Did Ancient Humans Use Echolocation? 5 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 6 1830
Book Review: A Psychologist Plumbs the Cultural Roots of Emotion 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 1264
Neanderthals: how a carnivore diet may have led to their demise 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 4 1353
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 1809
Two Elko Residents Sentenced To Prison For Graffiti At Sacred White River Narrows Petroglyph Site 14 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 20 3855
Archaeologists discover nearly 3,000-year-old rock carvings in ancient city in Iraq 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 9 1305
ANCIENT WATER SYSTEM UNCOVERED AT ROMAN STABIAE 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 2 1162
100 years after Tutankhamun discovery new finds reveal more of ancient Egypt's secrets 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 24 2082
Human exceptionalism imposes horrible costs on other animals 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 2 1131
Anthropologists Find New Ways Female Bones Are Permanently Altered After Giving Birth 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 1374
The Woman Who Saved Native Song 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 7 1027
Rare medieval script discovered on stone carved by Scotland's 'Painted People' 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 17 1797
Prehistoric DNA Reveals Two Groups Migrated to the U.K. After the Last Ice Age 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 32 1949
Analysis and Interpretation of a Unique Arabic Finger Ring from the Viking Age Town of Birka, Sweden 3 sl8 Oct 2022 Nov 2022 7 1836
Russian asylum seekers who took a boat to Alaska are Indigenous Siberians. 6 elleng Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 2296
Neanderthal family life revealed by ancient DNA from Siberian cave 7 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 15 2189
This Interactive Map Shows Which Indigenous Lands You Live On 28 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 39 7279
Drone photos reveal an early Mesopotamian city made of marsh islands 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 19 2211
Norwich timber henge burnt in Neolithic winter solstice excavated 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 8 1424
Neanderthals and modern humans may have copied each other's tools 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 6 1538

Anthropology Continued...

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Superhighway of ancient human and animal footprints in England provides an 'amazing snapshot of the 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 19 1703
Neanderthal DNA might be linked to smoking, drinking, sleeping patterns in modern humans: study 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 1612
'Rare' Roman mosaic found in Rastan, Syria 9 Wicked Blue Oct 2022 Oct 2022 9 2614
Ancient Amazonians, unknown until recently, built towering mounds and reshaped the landscape 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 2223
What Do Stonehenge and Japanese Stone Circles Have in Common? 11 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 14 2972
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 2130
Viking Women Were Power Weavers Whose Textiles Provided Vital Trade Across Europe, Researchers Say 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 13 1907
Study of Buddhist monks suggests celibacy can have surprising evolutionary advantages 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 2169
Beads show European trade in African interior used Indigenous routes 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 1115
See the striking facial reconstruction of a Paleolithic woman who lived 31,000 years ago 9 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 44 5074
Artificial islands surrounding British Isles were used for ancient parties, archaeologists find 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 13 1247
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 2980
Archaeologists Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Structure Older Than Stonehenge or Pyramids of Giza 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 14 1796
What's the world's oldest civilization? 10 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 32 4129
Can we talk about modern Social Anthropology here? 14 Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 3470
Brochs: The mysterious circular symbols of Scotland 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 26 2843
Indigenous Sea Gardens Fed Communities, Preserved Ecosystems 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 8 1517
Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 9 1250
Chinese researchers discover world's earliest synthesized lead white cosmetics 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 1416
twitter thread: example of architecture from every single country 5 BootinUp Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 2086
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