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Bones of ape living 12m years ago point to genesis of upright walking 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 5 1658
Unique sled dogs helped the inuit thrive in the North American Arctic 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 2 1233
Most Notable Royal Inbreeding Throughout History and the Craziness that Ensued 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1764
Archaeologists tie ancient bones to a revolt chronicled on the Rosetta Stone 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 10 1282
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 1222
How Dogs and People Ended Up Ruling the World 5 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1649
Cave lion figurine made of woolly mammoth tusk found at Denisova Cave 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 24 2190
Ancient Armenian Female Warrior Suffered Hatchet Wounds And Arrow Blow Before Death 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 12 1912
Painstaking clean-up of Scottish Viking hoard unlocks new secrets 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 14 1333
The mystery of Harappan script: An enigma from the ancient world 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1331
Two-Horned 'Rook' Might Be the Oldest Chess Piece on Earth 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 6 1295
300,000 years ago, nine human species lived on Earth. Did homo sapiens exterminate the others? 12 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 18 3023
Greece's Naxos Island May Have Been Inhabited 200,000 Years Ago 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 21 2242
Universality and diversity in human song 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1332
Jewelry made from HUMAN TEETH found in the ruins of 9000-year-old Turkish city, 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1113
Physicists Just Created the Most Detailed Simulation of the Universe in History 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 10 1588
Before We Find Aliens, Humans Need to Figure Ourselves Out, Anthropologist Says 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1504
Japan team finds 143 stunning new images in Nazca Lines of Peru 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 15 1496
The technology of enchantment 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1217
Archaeologists find ancient site older than Machu Picchu 11 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 38 5591
Bolivia, before the Spanish invasion, had "floating gardens," too, like Mexico. 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 1 1452
'Stone age seafarers' depicted in newly discovered rock art in Sweden 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 24 2932
The Reinvention of Humanity by Charles King review - a revolution in anthropology 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1289
Centuries-Old 'Witch Marks' in Hidden Cave Can Finally Be Seen ... in 3D 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 13 1579
Mexican mammoth trap provides first evidence of prehistoric hunting pits 3 Eugene Nov 2019 Nov 2019 11 1735
Drone-mounted lasers reveal ancient settlement off Florida coast 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 12 1374
Meet Erika the Red: Viking women were warriors too, say scientists 5 Eugene Nov 2019 Nov 2019 12 2039
Drone images provide new insights into lost Bolivian civilisation - video 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 1 1102
Laser scanning reveals 'lost' ancient Mexican city 'had as many buildings as Manhattan' 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1115
Archaeologists Uncover 17th-Century Mexican Tunnel Decorated With Mysterious Aztec Carvings 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1432

Anthropology Continued...

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Hoard of golden treasure stumbled upon by metal detectorist revealed to be most important Anglo-Saxo 2 Eugene Nov 2019 Nov 2019 13 1508
New scientific evidence proves Naxos was inhabited 200,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 8 1358
Neanderthals were master fire-starters, cave chemistry suggests 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1147
Ancient Greece just got tens of thousands of years more ancient 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1128
Flint flake tool partially covered by birch tar adds to evidence of Neanderthal complex thinking 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1154
Ancient City of 'Mahendraparvata' Hidden Beneath Cambodian Jungle 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 9 1582
7,000-year-old fortress wall uncovered in southern Turkey 4 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 15 2561
Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 1 1404
Neanderthal, Denisovan DNA Found Near Autism Genes in Modern Humans 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 8 1616
Why Neanderthals Could Outsprint Humans 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 4 1582
LOST CITY DISCOVERED HIGH UP IN REMOTE COLOMBIAN MOUNTAINS WHERE LEGEND OF EL DORADO WAS BORN 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 17 1765
Egypt boasts biggest ancient mummy find in over a century 1 nitpicker Oct 2019 Oct 2019 6 1342
Game Over: These Monkeys Just Crushed Humans on a Computer Game 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 4 1661
Study shows ancient Mayas had greater environmental impacts than previously believed 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 4 1294
Ancient Industrial Area Found in Egypt's Valley of the Monkeys 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 3 1325
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 3 1008
La Guajira's desert and its legendary Wayuu people 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 3 2437
Uncovering secrets of mystery civilization in Saudi Arabia 4 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 27 3910
Researcher fired lasers from planes and discovered ancient Maya farms 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 3 1353
Early humans stored bone marrow like tins of soup 400,000 years ago 5 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 9 1948
Tulsa searches for mass graves from 1921 Tulsa race massacre 2 Eugene Oct 2019 Oct 2019 1 2028
Great Apes Have Just Passed A Complex "Theory Of Mind" Test 8 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 35 2822
Found: Milk Residue That Proves Ancient Europeans Used Cute-as-Heck Baby Bottles 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 11 1817
Mysterious Megastructures of the Elusive Tripolye Culture Unearthed in Ukraine 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 2 1360
"How Long have we been in the Anthropocene?" 2 ellenrr Sep 2019 Oct 2019 4 2083
Ancient Egyptian Temple from Reign of King Ptolemy IV Unearthed Along Nile River 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 7 1655
Scientists find that tin found in Israel from 3,000 years ago comes from Cornwall 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 17 1881
Neanderthals weren't the strong, strapping cavepeople we imagine 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 11 1774
Plan revealed for a 'Neolithic Landscapes of the Dead' chambered tomb trail on Orkney 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 2 1645
This is what mysterious ancient humans might have looked like 0 jpak Sep 2019 Sep 2019 13 1948

Anthropology Continued...

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Homo heidelbergensis: The Answer to a Mysterious Period in Human History? 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 10 1662
Archaeologists unearth mass graves from Mongol invasion of Russia 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 7 1643
'Mindless growth': Robust scientific case for degrowth is stronger every day 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 2 1726
Treasure trove of artifacts discovered near this Colorado city 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 6 1646
This Ancient Belt Buckle Retrieved from 'Russian Atlantis' Looks Like a Bedazzled iPhone Case 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 11 1951
Mysterious Indus Valley People Gave Rise to Modern-Day South Asians 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 7 1578
'Lovers of Modena' skeletons holding hands were both men 3 Eugene Sep 2019 Sep 2019 5 1961
Idaho Site Shows Humans Were in North America 16,000 Years Ago 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 4 1755
Thrumster dig uncovers broch era village 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 10 1403
Study by anthropology scholar examines ancient DNA to reveal history of Central and South Asian popu 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 2 1385
Over 250 Neanderthal Footprints Reveal Clues to the Ancient Humans' Social Lives 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 2 1567
The odd world distribution of ancient Haplogroup X Mitochondrial DNA 6 Ichingcarpenter Apr 2016 Sep 2019 10 10381
Oldest Evidence of North American Settlement May Have Been Found in Idaho 0 left-of-center2012 Sep 2019 Sep 2019 6 1772
Over 250 Archaeologists Show Evidence Humans 'Transformed' Earth Long Before 1900s 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 12 3064
Ancient Skeletons with Alien-Like Heads Unearthed in Croatia 4 Judi Lynn Aug 2019 Sep 2019 11 2340
Toothless Druid Woman's Face Comes Alive in Wax, Wrinkles and All 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2019 Sep 2019 31 2949
Mesoamerican Sculptures Reveal Early Knowledge of Magnetism 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2019 Aug 2019 5 1464
A Warming Climate Threatens Archaeological Sites in Greenland 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2019 Aug 2019 2 1659
Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought. 0 elleng Aug 2019 Aug 2019 12 1975
3.8-million-year-old skull discovered in Ethiopia identified as ancestor of 'Lucy' 1 left-of-center2012 Aug 2019 Aug 2019 2 1660
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