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Artists Have Been Painting Inside This Spanish Cave for 58,000 Years 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2022 Jun 2022 17 1173
In Algeria, Ancient Cave Art May Show Psychedelic Mushroom Use 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2022 Jun 2022 5 1249
Fossils in the 'Cradle of Humankind' may be more than a million years older than previously thought 2 Tom Yossarian Joad Jun 2022 Jun 2022 25 1557
New human fossil discovery has everyone questioning the origin of mankind 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 20 1119
Scientists Think They've Found a Huge Goddess-Worshiping Lost City In Iraq 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 8 1044
5,200-year-old stone carving chrysalis found in north China 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 7 1010
How Breaking Bad and an Infamous Economist Can Explain the Viking Age 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 5 1227
'Plaza' in ancient city of Cahokia near today's St. Louis was likely inundated year-round 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 17 1359
Cornwall's ancient village with underground tunnels that nobody can explain 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 13 1144
Chief Justice overturns drilling approval at Aboriginal heritage site 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 13 1135
Indigenous Sea Gardens Fed Communities, Preserved Ecosystems 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 8 1014
Norwich timber henge burnt in Neolithic winter solstice excavated 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 8 920
Ancient Amazonians, unknown until recently, built towering mounds and reshaped the landscape 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 1581
Neanderthal DNA might be linked to smoking, drinking, sleeping patterns in modern humans: study 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 1123
Prehistoric DNA Reveals Two Groups Migrated to the U.K. After the Last Ice Age 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 32 1468
Human exceptionalism imposes horrible costs on other animals 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 2 653
Book Review: A Psychologist Plumbs the Cultural Roots of Emotion 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 762
Anthropologists Find New Ways Female Bones Are Permanently Altered After Giving Birth 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 881
Fossilized Fish Teeth Could Be Earliest Evidence of Cooking 2 Eugene Nov 2022 Nov 2022 7 946
THE COUNTRY OF SCOTLAND HAS OVER 400 DIFFERENT WAYS TO TALK ABOUT SNOW 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 6 791
Oldest scene in world: 11,000-year-old wall relief near Gbeklitepe 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 15 1051
3,200 Year-Old Mesopotamian Perfume Recreated 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 15 1200
Meet Ramesses II: Scientists reconstruct the 'handsome' face of ancient Egypt's most POWERFUL pharao 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 16 1189
Could These Cave Markings Be the Earliest Form of Writing? 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2023 Jan 2023 14 979
Archaeologists Unearth Viking Hall in Denmark 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2023 Jan 2023 17 986
Local leaf tearing techniques help chimps flirt in the forest 🐵 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2023 Jan 2023 6 904
'Princely' tomb of Hun warrior unearthed in Romania 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2023 Jan 2023 5 1143
Lasers revealed 5 ancient civilizations that were hiding in plain sight 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2023 Jan 2023 12 1217
Saudi Arabia unveils face of ancient Nabataean woman 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 19 1665
500,000-Year-Old Signs of Extinct Human Species Found in Poland Cave 2 Warpy Feb 2023 Mar 2023 20 1446

Anthropology Continued...

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Scientists identify corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza using cosmic rays 2 Wicked Blue Mar 2023 Mar 2023 13 1754
New Moai statue that 'deified ancestors' found on Easter Island 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Mar 2023 9 1251
Unknown lineage of ice age Europeans discovered in genetic study 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 14 1469
Have we got Ancient Egypt's mummies all wrong? 2 Wicked Blue Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1376
1,000-year-old brick tomb discovered in China is decorated with lions, sea anemones and 'guardian sp 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 10 1708
Polish-Armenian team discovers 'Golden tomb' dating back 3,200 years 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1129
ANCIENT RUNES EXPLAINED (AND HOW THEY INFLUENCED THE LORD OF THE RINGS) 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 12 1278
Gruesome cache of severed hands (ancient Egypt) - Ars Technica 2 BootinUp Apr 2023 Apr 2023 9 1390
New Evidence Found for Stone Age Children, Thought Lost to Time 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 31 2987
Road Built 7,000 Years Ago Found at The Bottom of The Mediterranean Sea 2 Warpy May 2023 May 2023 12 1813
3,200-year-old tomb uncovered at one of ancient Egypt's most important burial sites 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 11 1942
1,000-Year-Old Native American Canoe Recovered From A North Carolina Lake 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 9 1784
Some of the first humans in the Americas came from China, study finds 2 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 29 1941
Ancient Egyptian Figurines of God Osiris Found in Poland 2 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 3 1081
Researchers in Israel Are Using A.I. to Translate Fragments of Ancient Cuneiform Text Into English 2 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 3 1674
2,700-year-old petroglyphs depicting people, ships and animals discovered in Sweden 2 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 11 1038
Homo naledi were burying their dead at least 100,000 years before humans 2 Wicked Blue Jun 2023 Jun 2023 13 1226
Huge Rare Runestone Found Under The Kitchen Floor In Randers Investigated 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 19 1592
Oldest Signs of Human Ancestors' Trek to Australia Found in Laotian Cave 2 Warpy Jun 2023 Jun 2023 15 1560
Fossils reveal early modern humans in southeast Asia 77,000 years ago 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 781
Excavating Cuneiform Tablets in Iraq with the Girsu Project Curator's Corner S8 Ep3 2 Ptah Jul 2023 Jul 2023 8 1508
Several hundred archaeological finds discovered on Khortytsia after destruction of Kakhovka HPP 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2023 Aug 2023 6 1676
Unveiling Japan's ancient practice of cranial modification: The case of the Hirota people in Tanegas 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2023 Aug 2023 2 1736
Swiss scientists revel in meteoric arrowhead with roots in Estonia 2 Wicked Blue Aug 2023 Aug 2023 6 1567
Ruins Of 2,300-Year-Old City Of Jiaohe On The Silk Road 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2023 Aug 2023 10 1522
The Hohokam: Canal Masters of the American Southwest 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2023 Aug 2023 4 1017
Ancient Solar Flare Sheds Light On How Nordic Seafarers Became The Vikings 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2023 Sep 2023 10 1220
An archeologist learned about Neanderthals (and ourselves) by digging in one cave for decades 2 70sEraVet Sep 2023 Sep 2023 13 1370
Unveiling the Enigmatic World of Istanbul's Subterranean Treasures 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2023 Sep 2023 6 833
Sunken temple reveals 'treasures and secrets' in mysterious underwater city 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2023 Sep 2023 6 919

Anthropology Continued...

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Comet Impact 12,800 Years Ago Sparked the Rise of Agriculture 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Nov 2023 7 979
These footprints confirm that humans were in North America several millenia earlier than previously 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 14 1014
Sneak Peek Into Neanderthal Cooking Habits Reveals They Were Just As Intelligent As Homo Sapiens 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Nov 2023 16 1026
ANCIENT 'FEAT OF ENGINEERING' NEARLY 1,000 YEARS OLDER THAN THE PYRAMIDS FOUND ON REMOTE NORTH SEA ISLAND 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 26 1798
Indigenous Mexicans migrated to California 5,200 years ago, likely bringing their languages with them, ancient DNA revea 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 8 1190
Long before they became a Thanksgiving staple, turkeys were revered by ancient Indigenous communities 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 5 932
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancels meet with Greek PM over Elgin Marbles row BBC News 2 xocetaceans Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1046
Researcher: The people who painted these rock paintings were neither primitive nor naked 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 21 1453
New evidence suggests Harappan civilisation is 7,000 to 8,000 years' old 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 12 1802
Spirals Carved Into Colorado Rocks Thousands of Years Ago Could Be Ancient Calendars 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 22 994
No signs of tooth decay in half of Swedish Viking population (corrected) 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 1262
20 Greatest Archaeological Discoveries of 2023 2 Eko Jan 2024 Jan 2024 11 870
Religion Turned Bands Into Tribes That Ruled The Planet - OpEd 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 750
Everyone Thought This 4,000-Year-Old Tomb Had Been Destroyed. Then, an Archaeologist Found It 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 12 1122
Folsom Point Arrowhead 2 coprolite Feb 2024 Feb 2024 9 863
New discoveries show early humans lived in the frigid north alongside Neanderthals 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 15 976
Hurrian Hymn no. 6 - 1400 BC is the oldest surviving melody 2 Wicked Blue Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 1049
First section of ancient scroll deciphered by AI 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1032
Marmore, the Highest and Oldest Artificial Waterfall in Europe, Created by the Romans 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 37 1958
'Vittrup Man' violently died in a bog 5,200 years ago. Now, researchers know his story 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 20 1329
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