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Ancient tools hint that Neanderthals lived on Danish island 120,000 years ago 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2020 Oct 2020 7 1359
A dazzling civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5,000 years ago. Why was it forgotten? 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2020 Oct 2020 3 1680
Oldest known battle was massacre of merchants 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2020 Oct 2020 2 1395
Scots academic leads major project which may shed light on Scotland's Vikings 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2020 Oct 2020 0 1177
Secrets of the ice: unlocking a melting time capsule 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2020 Nov 2020 6 1749
Prehistoric female hunter discovery upends gender role assumptions 2 Eugene Nov 2020 Nov 2020 11 2774
FEMALE WARRIOR WAS BURIED IN THE 'RIDING POSITION' AS IF ON A HORSE JOURNEYING INTO THE AFTERLIFE 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2020 Nov 2020 13 1267
DISCOVERY OF 1,000-YEAR-OLD VIKING SITE IN CANADA COULD REWRITE HISTORY 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2020 Nov 2020 7 1749
THE SHOCKINGLY UNSPOILED PERUVIAN TOMB OF THE LORD OF SIPAN, MOCHICAN WARRIOR PRIEST 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2020 Nov 2020 12 1664
Archaeologists Discover Viking Age Ship Burial in Norway 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2020 Nov 2020 1 1663
Geoscientists discover Ancestral Puebloans survived from ice melt in New Mexico lava tubes 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2020 Dec 2020 3 1609
Example of Roman Engineering Examined in France 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2020 Nov 2020 9 1638
Norway excavates a Viking longship fit for a king 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2020 Dec 2020 21 1796
Fishing for gold: how eels powered the medieval economy 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2020 Dec 2020 2 1771
New Evidence Supports Controversial Claim of Humans in The Americas 130,000 Years Ago 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2020 Dec 2020 10 1653
Ancient European Hunters Carved Human Bones Into Weapons 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2020 Dec 2020 4 1361
Science, Art Combine to Reveal Face of Ancient Peruvian Noblewoman 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2020 Dec 2020 4 1491
Take A Virtual Tour Of Chauvet Cave, Home Of The Best Preserved Cave Paintings 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2020 Dec 2020 10 1416
Sophisticated Roman baths uncovered in Amman during building of a major drainage system 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2021 Jan 2021 13 1726
66 Roman Army camps in northern Spain shed light on infamous conquest 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2021 Jan 2021 12 1661
Medieval Chinese Coin Found in England Suggests a Vast Medieval Trade Route 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2021 Jan 2021 3 1424
Bali's thieving monkeys can spot high-value items to ransom 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2021 Jan 2021 10 1627
Remember Mes Aynak? 2 littlemissmartypants Jan 2021 Jan 2021 9 1652
High-status Danish Vikings wore exotic beaver furs 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 3 1461
Historic secrets unearthed by archaeologists before the sea claims them 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 10 1366
Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered - on a head-lice comb 2 Eugene Nov 2022 Nov 2022 8 1572
Clues to the Lives of North America's First Inhabitants Are Hidden Underwater 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 10 2233
Temple linked to Hercules and Alexander the Great discovered in ancient megacity in Iraq 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 8 1655
Archaeologists Uncover Earliest Evidence for Plant Farming in East Africa 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 1109
Did Roman gladiators really fight to the death? 2 Bayard Sep 2024 Sep 2024 11 1822

Anthropology Continued...

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Yup'ik masks: Carvings depicting distorted spirits' faces dreamed up by shamans in Alaska 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1231
5,000 year-old ancient Egyptian genome reveals links to an ancient civilisation 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 1308
42,000-year-old Shell Jewellery Workshop Discovered - The Oldest in Western Europe 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Oct 2025 27 3233
These Black Women Helped Send Us to the Moon 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2021 Feb 2021 9 1509
More Evidence That Neanderthals Were 'Absorbed' by Humans, Not Wiped Out 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2021 Feb 2021 14 1631
How A Museum's Human Skull Collection Sparked A Racial Reckoning 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 7 1193
Gladiator arena from Roman era unearthed in Turkey 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 10 1507
Stunning eagle sculpture uncovered at sacred Aztec temple in Mexico 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2021 Jan 2021 8 2153
Ritual monument discovered in Scotland dates to the time of Stonehenge By Yasemin Saplakoglu - Staff 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2021 Jan 2021 15 1558
The Oldest City in The Americas Is an Archeological Wonder, And It's Under Invasion 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2021 Jan 2021 7 1407
Reindeer bone found in Cork shows that humans lived in Ireland 33,000 years ago 1 left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 Apr 2021 5 1642
European beads found in Alaska predate Columbus, controversial study claims 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2021 Feb 2021 3 3965
Australia's oldest rock painting is an anatomically accurate kangaroo 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2021 Feb 2021 3 1536
Egypt: Archaeologists unearth ancient beer factory in Abydos 1 Eugene Feb 2021 Feb 2021 10 1783
Archaeologists find unique ceremonial vehicle near Pompeii 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2021 Mar 2021 11 1723
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 left-of-center2012 Mar 2021 Mar 2021 5 1213
Some of Europe's Oldest-Known Modern Humans Are Distantly Related to Native Americans 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 20 2014
'Exciting' stone age discoveries in the Cairngorms 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 17 2393
Europe's oldest map, a stone slab, unearthed in France 1 left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 Apr 2021 6 1345
Aztec renaissance: New research sheds fresh light on intellectual achievements of long-vanished empi 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 5 1758
Scant evidence that 'wood overuse' at Cahokia caused collapse 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 6 1639
How new discoveries in west Africa could rewrite pre-history 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 15 1324
Possible 'embassy' in ancient Maya city illuminates the birth of an empire 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 1 1257
Dozens of Fossilized Neanderthal Footprints Found on a Beach in Spain 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 2 1243
Prehistoric cannibal victim found in death cave ID'ed as a young girl 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 2 1205
Moccasin Fragment Reveals Precolonial Connection Between Subarctic and Southwest 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 8 1378
In Egypt, archaeologists have made a discovery as important as the finding of Tutankhamen's tomb 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 19 2106
Vandals sack Roman-era estate and bathhouse just discovered in UK 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 6 1233
Irish Farmer Stumbles Onto 'Untouched' Ancient Tomb of Stone Near Dingle 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 19 1636
Indigenous Peoples in British Columbia Tended 'Forest Gardens' Found near villages, research suggest 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 9 1887

Anthropology Continued...

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Hundreds of stone tools used by homo erectus discovered in abandoned goldmine in Sahara Desert 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 8 1307
Researchers demystify the secrets of ancient Aboriginal migration across Australia 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 4 1179
Iron Age warriors bent the swords of their defeated enemies, ancient hoard reveals 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 9 1382
Is This 10,000-Year-Old Carving Europe's Oldest Known Depiction of a Boat? 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 6 1708
Medieval Smi were using draught reindeer, researchers find 1 Judi Lynn May 2021 May 2021 3 1225
People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years 1 jeffreyi May 2021 May 2021 9 1529
Remains of nine Neanderthals found in cave south of Rome 1 Eugene May 2021 May 2021 14 1738
Roman baths emerge from sand dunes of Cadiz 1 Judi Lynn May 2021 May 2021 7 1388
Is This Florida Island Home to a Long-Lost Native American Settlement? 1 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 15 2039
Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 10 1816
The real urban jungle: how ancient societies reimagined what cities could be 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 2 1632
New prehistoric human unknown to science discovered in Israel 1 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 8 1319
'Dragon Man': Scientists in China say new human species is our closest ancestor 1 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 9 1754
Ancient ship and burial ground discovered in underwater city in Egypt 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Jul 2021 11 1427
The Mysterious Palpa Geoglypglyphs 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 8 1587
17,300-year-old Kimberley kangaroo recognised as Australia's oldest rock artwork 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 12 1426
How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends 1 Uncle Joe Aug 2021 Aug 2021 10 1195
Dispelling false claims of cannibalistic caribs--again 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 1 1119
Genetic fossil': intact DNA from woman who lived 7,200 years ago discovered in Indonesia 1 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 Aug 2021 9 1507
New evidence supports idea that America's first civilization was made up of 'sophisticated' engineer 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2021 Sep 2021 6 1355
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