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Large-scale warfare occurred in Europe '1,000 years earlier than previously thought' 4 Eugene Nov 2023 Nov 2023 5 1317

Ancient DNA counters biblical account of the mysterious Canaanites 3 Eugene Jul 2017 Jul 2017 12 2030

Alaskan infant's DNA tells story of 'first Americans' 1 Eugene Jan 2018 Jan 2018 13 1360

Mysterious Dead Sea Scroll deciphered in Israel 10 Eugene Jan 2018 Jan 2018 1 1598

Earliest known drawing found on rock in South African cave 0 Eugene Sep 2018 Sep 2018 5 931

Brazil museum fire: Prized 'Luzia' fossil skull recovered 0 Eugene Oct 2018 Oct 2018 0 916

Oldest known animal drawing found in remote Indonesian cave 0 Eugene Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 928

'Spirits Won't Rest': DNA Links Ancient Bones to Living Aboriginal Australians 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1002

Mexican experts discover first temple of god depicted as skinned human corpse 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 6 1283

History's largest child sacrifice was a response to devastating weather, archaeologists say 1 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1174

Archaeological Geneticists Call Jack The Ripper DNA Study 'Unpublishable Nonsense' 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1070

Norway's Kon-Tiki museum to return thousands of Easter Island artefacts 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 888

Neolithic dog reveals tales behind Orkney's monuments 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 20 1311

Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of builders 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 15 1076

Crusader armies were remarkably genetically diverse, study finds 1 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1112

Missing part of Stonehenge returned 60 years on 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 5 1032

Remains of 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement unearthed outside Jerusalem 0 Eugene Jul 2019 Jul 2019 4 1058

'Lovers of Modena' skeletons holding hands were both men 3 Eugene Sep 2019 Sep 2019 5 1312

Tulsa searches for mass graves from 1921 Tulsa race massacre 2 Eugene Oct 2019 Oct 2019 1 1591

Hoard of golden treasure stumbled upon by metal detectorist revealed to be most important Anglo-Saxo 2 Eugene Nov 2019 Nov 2019 13 1073

Meet Erika the Red: Viking women were warriors too, say scientists 5 Eugene Nov 2019 Nov 2019 12 1441

Mexican mammoth trap provides first evidence of prehistoric hunting pits 3 Eugene Nov 2019 Nov 2019 11 1153

Neolithic chewing gum helps recreate image of ancient Dane 0 Eugene Dec 2019 Dec 2019 8 998

Scientists find evidence of 'ghost population' of ancient humans 5 Eugene Feb 2020 Feb 2020 11 1196

'Spectacular' artefacts found as Norway ice-patch melts 1 Eugene Apr 2020 Apr 2020 19 1207

'Cannabis burned during worship' by ancient Israelites - study 2 Eugene May 2020 May 2020 7 1500

Genetic impact of African slave trade revealed in DNA study 0 Eugene Jul 2020 Jul 2020 3 848

Prehistoric female hunter discovery upends gender role assumptions 2 Eugene Nov 2020 Nov 2020 11 1806

Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered - on a head-lice comb 2 Eugene Nov 2022 Nov 2022 8 1029

Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery 10 Eugene Jan 2023 Jan 2023 34 3228

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7,000-year-old Native American burial site found in Gulf of Mexico 2 fleur-de-lisa Mar 2018 Mar 2018 18 1204

Is this what killed off the Clovis culture? 8 flyingfysh Nov 2018 Nov 2018 15 1883

How did two Chinese skeletons find their way into a Roman cemetery in London? 2 geardaddy Sep 2016 Sep 2016 6 1573

Ted Talk: Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe? 6 Ichingcarpenter Nov 2015 Oct 2020 3 2489

Doggerland in the news again [View all] 83 Ichingcarpenter Nov 2015 Sep 2020 18 15571

The odd world distribution of ancient Haplogroup X Mitochondrial DNA 6 Ichingcarpenter Apr 2016 Sep 2019 10 9369

Rethinking Humanity's Roots; we focused on east Africa should we be looking to the south? 5 Ichingcarpenter Jun 2016 Jul 2016 2 1665

Ancient Seafarers’ Tool Sites, Up to 12,000 Years Old, Discovered on California Island 1 Ichingcarpenter Jun 2016 Jun 2016 5 1770

Scientists reveal 10,000-year-old mummy is Native American ancestor 0 icymist Nov 2018 Nov 2018 4 816

3-D model of Neanderthal rib cage busts myth of 'hunched-over cavemen' 0 icymist Nov 2018 Nov 2018 10 1016

Reviving Extinct Species: Is It Worth the Cost? 10 In_The_Wind Feb 2017 Mar 2017 4 3070

"Ancient Civilizations of North America" free on Amazon Prime until 9/30/22....... 13 Jade Fox Sep 2022 Sep 2022 13 1665

Pacific Northwest's 'forest gardens' were deliberately planted by Indigenous people 7 jeffreyi Apr 2021 Apr 2021 16 1110

People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years 1 jeffreyi May 2021 May 2021 9 813

Academic paper on Karuk, Maidu, Yurok interactions with environment. 0 jeffreyi Jan 2023 Jan 2023 2 774

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images. 2 Jetheels Oct 2020 Oct 2020 0 875

What Cave Art Means 0 JHan Sep 2018 Sep 2018 9 1084

Penises of the Ancient World 7 JHan Nov 2018 Nov 2018 7 1548

Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows 5 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2021 Jul 2021 6 1259

The secret lives of Neanderthal children 6 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2021 Jul 2021 67 3223

An immense mystery older than Stonehenge 18 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 Aug 2021 66 4443

Levelling up Pompeii: grave shows how a former slave went far 0 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 Aug 2021 8 839

Genetic fossil': intact DNA from woman who lived 7,200 years ago discovered in Indonesia 1 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 Aug 2021 9 1050

New discoveries chip away at myths about Viking shipbuilding 0 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2021 Sep 2021 3 986

40,000-year-old sealed cavern in Gibraltar gives new insight into Neanderthal life 0 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2021 Oct 2021 15 922

Massive Byzantine-era winery discovered in Israel 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 860

How did the enslaved workers of Pompeii live? A new discovery provides a rare glimpse 0 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2021 Nov 2021 5 990

A Total Amateur May Have Just Rewritten Human History With Bombshell Discovery 42 Jilly_in_VA Jan 2023 Jan 2023 113 6479

Scientists Discovered These Ancient Cities Have a Secret Link to the Cosmos 5 Jilly_in_VA Jan 2023 Jan 2023 44 2420

Biblical city yields unusual case of 3,500-year-old head surgery 3 Jilly_in_VA Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1202

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Archaeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years 3 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2023 Sep 2023 6 1123

New Mexico footprints are oldest sign of humans in Americas, research shows 8 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 10 725

A Monumental Prehistoric Discovery In Siberia Rewrites Human History, Scientists Say 6 Jilly_in_VA Dec 2023 Dec 2023 28 1610

Living with the world's oldest mummies 0 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2021 Oct 2021 8 858

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 1443

Genetic analysis of ancient massacre reveals instance of indiscriminate killing 2 Jim__ Mar 2021 Mar 2021 13 1229

The Aqueduct of Constantinople: Managing the longest water channel of the ancient world 2 Jim__ May 2021 May 2021 13 1020

3D photogrammetry reveals ancient Native American artwork in Alabama cave 1 Jim__ May 2022 May 2022 9 737

Small-scale atlatl artifacts suggest children were taught how to use them 3 Jim__ Dec 2019 Dec 2019 7 981

Geometry guided construction of earliest known temple, built 6,000 years before Stonehenge 0 Jim__ May 2020 May 2020 9 962

Divers uncover mysteries of earliest inhabitants of Americas deep inside Yucatan caves 4 Jim__ Jul 2020 Jul 2020 15 1245

Drone survey reveals large earthwork at ancestral Wichita site in Kansas 6 Jim__ Sep 2020 Oct 2020 11 1733

The mathematical values of Linear A fraction signs 3 Jim__ Sep 2020 Sep 2020 6 1130

Ancient Maya built sophisticated water filters 1 Jim__ Oct 2020 Oct 2020 16 965

Unique Funeral Customs of Tana Toraja 0 jkirch Jun 2020 Jun 2020 2 930

Speed Bump. (comic) 0 JohnnyRingo Apr 2020 Apr 2020 3 1370

Mum's a Neanderthal, Dad's a Denisovan: First discovery of an ancient-human hybrid 5 jpak Aug 2018 Aug 2018 10 1181

Neanderthals and Denisovans Shared a Siberian Cave for Thousands of Years, New Research Suggests 0 jpak Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 946

Biggest Denisovan fossil yet spills ancient human's secrets 0 jpak May 2019 May 2019 22 1180

Bones uncover mysterious early history of the Neanderthals 4 jpak Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 1245

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