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Ancient Amazonians, unknown until recently, built towering mounds and reshaped the landscape 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 1982
What Do Stonehenge and Japanese Stone Circles Have in Common? 11 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 14 2322
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 1847
Viking Women Were Power Weavers Whose Textiles Provided Vital Trade Across Europe, Researchers Say 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 13 1627
Study of Buddhist monks suggests celibacy can have surprising evolutionary advantages 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 1837
Beads show European trade in African interior used Indigenous routes 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 955
See the striking facial reconstruction of a Paleolithic woman who lived 31,000 years ago 9 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 44 4599
Artificial islands surrounding British Isles were used for ancient parties, archaeologists find 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 13 1099
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 2498
Archaeologists Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Structure Older Than Stonehenge or Pyramids of Giza 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 14 1623
What's the world's oldest civilization? 10 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 32 3572
Can we talk about modern Social Anthropology here? 14 Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 2664
Brochs: The mysterious circular symbols of Scotland 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 26 2459
Indigenous Sea Gardens Fed Communities, Preserved Ecosystems 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 8 1293
Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 9 1116
Chinese researchers discover world's earliest synthesized lead white cosmetics 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 1251
twitter thread: example of architecture from every single country 5 BootinUp Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 1704
Human Skin Didn't Always Fear The Sun, Not Until A Huge Change 10,000 Years Ago 6 Warpy Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 2464
World's Oldest Evidence of Surgical Amputation Lay Hidden For 31,000 Years 0 Warpy Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 1421
Indigenous Americans ruled democratically long before the U.S. did 5 DBoon Sep 2022 Sep 2022 12 1722
"Ancient Civilizations of North America" free on Amazon Prime until 9/30/22....... 13 Jade Fox Sep 2022 Sep 2022 13 3523
DNA STUDY SHEDS LIGHT ON 'MISSING LINK' IN BIRTH OF INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 10 elleng Sep 2022 Sep 2022 10 2524
RESEARCHERS DOCUMENT 1,000-YEAR-OLD PAINTINGS EXCAVATED IN SUDAN 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Sep 2022 5 1234
Vast paleogenetic study reveals insights on migration, farming and language development 1 elleng Sep 2022 Sep 2022 7 1493
Scientists Amazed to Find 1,400-Year-Old Folding Chair in Woman's Grave 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 15 1331
Who were the Vandals, the 'barbarians' who sacked Rome? 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 9 1271
Rival teams of male dolphins form the animal world's biggest social networks, long-running study fin 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 12 2640
Study: Vikings were not the first to settle the Faroe Islands 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 5 1074
Bodies Found In Medieval Well Probably Victims Of An Anti-Semitic Massacre 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 6 1052
Khufu branch of Nile River once flowed close enough to Giza to carry the stones needed to build the 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 1280

Anthropology Continued...

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Scythian arrowheads and Bronze Age dwelling uncovered in Ukraine 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 3 863
The last person who touched this three-bladed arrowhead was a Viking 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 17 1800
Centuries-old tools reveal how the Chikasha people fought off conquistadors 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 6 1157
Cornwall's ancient village with underground tunnels that nobody can explain 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 13 1545
Oldest human-made structure in the Americas is older than the Egyptian pyramids 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 13 1811
Creation of linguistic landscapes using ancient and contemporary Mayan writing 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 1318
Chief Justice overturns drilling approval at Aboriginal heritage site 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 13 1450
Traces of settlement dating back over 9,000 years discovered in Turkiye 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 1324
People Produced Beer in German Stonehenge Over 4,000 Years Ago 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 3 972
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 8 874
Glacier archaeologists find a 1300-year-old arrow in melting ice 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 31 2237
Map may prove 'Welsh Atlantis' rooted in fact, say academics 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 27 1993
'Spanish Stonehenge' dating back 7,000 years emerges as water levels recede 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 24 2378
Urartian chamber tomb, water channel discovered in Trkiye's Van 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 1000
New discoveries at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 11 1020
Archaeologists find ice age footprints of earliest North Americans 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 11 1219
The incredible case of the only known individual whose parents were two different species 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 30 2441
'Plaza' in ancient city of Cahokia near today's St. Louis was likely inundated year-round 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 17 1760
Enormous Underground City Uncovered in Turkey 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 15 1557
How Breaking Bad and an Infamous Economist Can Explain the Viking Age 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 5 1491
40,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Cave Chamber Discovered in Gibraltar 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 18 1586
Temple Dedicated to the Sun God Unearthed in Egypt 4 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 8 1680
Historic secrets unearthed by archaeologists before the sea claims them 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 10 1275
Horned helmets came from Bronze Age artists, not Vikings 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 12 1398
High-status Danish Vikings wore exotic beaver furs 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 3 1359
Archaeologists discover Ice Age human footprints in the Utah desert --may be more than 12,000 years o 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 11 1435
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 0 722
Ancient Maya installed gemstones in their teeth. It wasn't just fashion. 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 6 1190
Floors of ancient Greek luxury villa were laid with recycled glass 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 7 958
Archaeologists unearths Unique Tomb of 6th Century BC Egyptian Commander at the archaeological area 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 5 1039

Anthropology Continued...

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1.4 Million-Year-Old Fossil Hints Modern Human Faces Were Present Earlier Than Thought 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 21 2130
Scientists Think They've Found a Huge Goddess-Worshiping Lost City In Iraq 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 8 1314
Underwater archaeologists discover ancient Greek shipwreck in sunken city 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 6 1293
5,200-year-old stone carving chrysalis found in north China 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 7 1427
HOW ANCIENT EGYPTIANS USED EYESHADOW AS A FORM OF PROTECTION 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 9 1385
A Strange Fossil in South China Reveals an Intriguing Link With The First Americans 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 5 1404
How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 4 990
Norse traded walrus ivory in Kyiv, study finds 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 4 879
A rare 3,300-year-old bronze helmet reaching the present from the Hittite Empire era 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 7 1168
How Ancient Humans Evolved to Meditate to Deal With Stress 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 6 879
How Did Ancient Aztecs Use the Haunting Aztec Death Whistle? 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 2 1006
8,200-year-old burials in Russia contain pendants crafted from human bone 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 2 1199
Archaeologists Unearthed Third Greatest Fire Temple Existing in Ancient Iran's Sassanid Era 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 5 1174
Spanish archeologists may have found the oldest human fossil in Europe last Friday 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 14 1484
Mysterious 'lord of the universe' deity from ancient Palmyra finally identified 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 4 1172
Archaeologists unearth 600,000-year-old evidence of Britain's early inhabitants 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 16 1541
A Red Palace for the Red Queen at Palenque, Mexico 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 11 1124
Black Death origin mystery solved after 675 years, researchers say 3 Eugene Jun 2022 Jul 2022 15 1895
An Urartian fortress was discovered at an altitude of 3,300 meters in eastern Turkey 6 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 7 1798
Does warfare make societies more complex? Controversial study says yes 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 1 1251
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