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2,000-Year-Old Monolith Engravings Recorded in Peru 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 6 1566
Neanderthals may have been shallow free divers, suggests a new study 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 6 1500
Ancient Cave Filled With 10,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings Accidentally Discovered By Egyptologists In 8 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 25 3624
Mysterious Footprints Indicate Neanderthals Climbed a Volcano Right After It Erupted 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 30 2963
Australian bushfires may have damaged thousands of Aboriginal sites 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1533
Ancient Vesuvius eruption turned victim's brain to a glassy rock in rare, poorly understood process 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 5 1537
Anthropologists confirm existence of specialized sheep-hunting camp in prehistoric Lebanon 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1443
Mysterious 'Ghost Tribe' discovered as scientists recover Stone Age DNA 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 12 1615
14th-Century Steam Bath Found in Mexico City 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 1 1452
50 Graves of Slaves Who Toiled at a Roman Villa Unearthed in England 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1914
Peru's Pachacamac Idol Analyzed 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 0 1579
How Did Humans Come to the Americas? 2 left-of-center2012 Jan 2020 Jan 2020 5 1599
Who Decided to Put 60 Seconds in a Minute? 2 left-of-center2012 Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1807
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 2166
Easter Island's Monoliths Made the Crops Grow 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 25 3803
Mexico City gold was Aztec loot Spanish abandoned as they fled in 1520, tests show 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1483
How Did Cahokian Farmers Feed North America's Largest Indigenous City? 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1614
Early humans revealed to have engineered optimized stone tools at Olduvai Gorge 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1361
Monkeys smashing nuts with stones hint at how human tool use evolved 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1615
Ancient rock art at Carnarvon Gorge destroyed after walkway explodes in bushfire 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1415
Early Humans May Have Scavenged More than They Hunted 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1377
Viking runestone may allude to extreme winter, study says 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1490
A handful of recent discoveries have shattered anthropologists' picture of where humans came from, a 14 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 27 4533
Chimps Have Been Caught Throwing Rocks at Trees And Yelling For No Apparent Reason 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1786
Discovery of ancient Egyptian beads sheds new light on historic trade routes 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1385
Seafaring South Americans began settling Greater Antilles 5,800 years ago 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1408
Demon Drawing Spotted on Assyrian Clay Tablet 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1726
Archaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta Warriors 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1649
Subtle Ancient Footprints Come to Light 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1284
Ancient copper smelting ruins discovered in SW China 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1242

Anthropology Continued...

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Divers to retrieve Bronze Age artefacts from Swiss lake 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1161
Chimpanzees learn to crack nuts faster than humans 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1205
Researchers Discover Walruses Were Involved in the Mysterious Disappearance of Greenland's Norse Col 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1718
170,000-Year-Old Cooked Starch Found in South Africa 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1849
Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics? 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 1 1370
Tomb Containing Three Generations of Warrior Women Unearthed in Russia 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1282
Denisovan Research Reveals That Early Humans Were More Complex Than We Thought 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1419
Study reveals music's universal patterns across societies worldwide 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1153
Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology combines earthquake science with Indigenous knowledge 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 0 1161
5 Big Archaeology Discoveries to Watch for in 2020 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 5 1681
Giant birds may help scientists finally solve the mystery of the Nazca lines 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 5 1752
This Cave Contains the Oldest Story Ever Recorded 15 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 42 5592
Surprise: Ancient Inuit Mummy Scans Reveal Possible Heart Disease 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 1286
Archaeologists found the burial of Scythian Amazon with a head dress on Don 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 1949
The Irish Pigged Out on Pork in a 'Mammoth' Iron Age Building 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 13 1385
Archaeologists Are Unearthing the Stories of the Past Faster Than Ever Before 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 1366
Kulub: Dig uncovers large Mayan palace in Mexico 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 2321
Te Lapa: Mysterious island lights that help Polynesians navigate 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 10 1971
What Is the Second Greatest Mystery in Anthropology? 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 5 1936
World's oldest figurative artwork uncovered 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 26 3857
Archaeologists in Greece find 3,500-year-old royal tombs 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 6 1613
Isotope analysis points to prisoners of war, 1,400 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 1259
Fossil Whale Shows Transition Stage to Tail-Powered Swimming 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 1131
Archaeologists Unearth Beads Made of Human Teeth in Ancient Turkish City 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 1457
Scientists discover ancient gum and recover human DNA: 1 Laffy Kat Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 1335
What ancient homes looked like, from the Egyptians to the Aztecs 4 mfcorey1 Dec 2019 Dec 2019 22 3316
Neolithic chewing gum helps recreate image of ancient Dane 0 Eugene Dec 2019 Dec 2019 8 1460
Small-scale atlatl artifacts suggest children were taught how to use them 3 Jim__ Dec 2019 Dec 2019 7 1734
Buried Christian (and Pagan) Basilica Discovered in Ethiopia's 'Lost Kingdom' of Aksum 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 7 1279
Photos: Carvings Depict Maya Ballplayers in Action 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 4 1438

Anthropology Continued...

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Painting in the Americas before European colonization 8 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 42 5716
Like Neanderthals, early modern humans used their teeth as tools 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 1991
Time to ditch the harmful myth of the 'noble' hunter-gatherer 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 8 1549
Bones of ape living 12m years ago point to genesis of upright walking 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 5 1969
Unique sled dogs helped the inuit thrive in the North American Arctic 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 2 1484
Most Notable Royal Inbreeding Throughout History and the Craziness that Ensued 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 2058
Archaeologists tie ancient bones to a revolt chronicled on the Rosetta Stone 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 10 1470
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 1429
How Dogs and People Ended Up Ruling the World 5 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1999
Cave lion figurine made of woolly mammoth tusk found at Denisova Cave 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 24 2429
Ancient Armenian Female Warrior Suffered Hatchet Wounds And Arrow Blow Before Death 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 12 2186
Painstaking clean-up of Scottish Viking hoard unlocks new secrets 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 14 1470
The mystery of Harappan script: An enigma from the ancient world 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1577
Two-Horned 'Rook' Might Be the Oldest Chess Piece on Earth 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 6 1442
300,000 years ago, nine human species lived on Earth. Did homo sapiens exterminate the others? 12 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 18 3687
Greece's Naxos Island May Have Been Inhabited 200,000 Years Ago 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 21 2467
Universality and diversity in human song 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1557
Jewelry made from HUMAN TEETH found in the ruins of 9000-year-old Turkish city, 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1277
Physicists Just Created the Most Detailed Simulation of the Universe in History 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 10 1908
Before We Find Aliens, Humans Need to Figure Ourselves Out, Anthropologist Says 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1771
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