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New Mexico footprints are oldest sign of humans in Americas, research shows 8 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 10 1853
21,000-yr-old Footprints in New Mexico may be the oldest evidence of human migration in the Americas 8 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 12 1935
Baboon mummy DNA from ancient Egypt reveals location of mysterious port city not on any maps 8 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 18 2247
Miracle plant in Ancient Greece Rediscovered after 2,000 years 8 cally Feb 2024 Feb 2024 40 3091
A Towering Statue of Atlas Emerges From the Ruins of Sicily's Ancient Temple of Zeus 8 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 43 3792
DNA reveals inbreeding, smallpox and violent ends among cave-dwelling Christians in medieval Spain 8 Judi Lynn Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 1832
Human-built 5600-year-old submerged bridge found inside cave stuns scientists 8 Judi Lynn Sep 2024 Sep 2024 61 4105
Forgetting may provide a surprising evolutionary benefit, experts say 8 Judi Lynn Nov 2024 Nov 2024 19 2449
A New Discovery Suggests Stonehenge Had a Secret, Second Purpose All Along 8 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 35 2578
Archaeologists in Wisconsin Unearth an Ancient 'Parking Lot' With 16 Dugout Canoes--Including One That's 5,200 Years Old 8 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 27 1975
Her 3,000-Year-Old Bones Showed Unusual Signs of Wear. It Turns Out, She Was a Master Ceramicist 8 Judi Lynn Sep 2018 Sep 2018 25 2667
Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden 8 nitpicker Oct 2018 Oct 2018 27 2873
Doesn't anyone have any... 8 NeoGreen Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 2174
Is this what killed off the Clovis culture? 8 flyingfysh Nov 2018 Nov 2018 15 2776
Neanderthals glued their tools together 8 Judi Lynn Jul 2019 Aug 2019 9 2832
Great Apes Have Just Passed A Complex "Theory Of Mind" Test 8 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 35 2975
Painting in the Americas before European colonization 8 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 42 5439
Ancient Cave Filled With 10,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings Accidentally Discovered By Egyptologists In 8 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 25 3342
Neanderthals ate sharks and dolphins 8 Judi Lynn Mar 2020 Mar 2020 3 2686
'Unparalleled' discovery of ancient skeletons sheds light on mystery of when people started eating m 8 Judi Lynn Jun 2020 Jun 2020 49 3679
Vikings may not have been blonde, or Scandinavian 8 Judi Lynn Sep 2020 Sep 2020 9 2095
'The rock art gave me goosebumps': discovering the Amazon's lost archaeology 8 Judi Lynn Nov 2020 Nov 2020 8 2936
Statue of mysterious woman with 'Star Wars'-like headdress found in Mexico 8 Judi Lynn Jan 2021 Jan 2021 9 2869
Why Did Early Humans Leave Africa? 8 Judi Lynn Jan 2021 Jan 2021 14 2377
Did You Know There's A Stonehenge In The Amazon Too? 8 Judi Lynn Jun 2022 Jun 2022 12 1902
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 2699
4,500-year-old Sumerian temple dedicated to mighty thunder god discovered in Iraq 8 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 9 2196
9,500-Year-Old Baskets And 6,200-Year-Old Sandals Found In Spanish Cave 8 Judi Lynn Sep 2023 Sep 2023 13 1691
Israel destroyed more than 200 of 325 archaeological sites in Gaza 8 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 1544
Skara Brae women archaeologists who were written out of history 7 Judi Lynn Feb 2021 Feb 2021 27 2676

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This message was self-deleted by its author 7 left-of-center2012 Mar 2021 Mar 2021 4 2102
What a prehistoric pair of pretty pants can tell us about the spread of early languages 7 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 43 3288
Rethinking Neanderthals 7 left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 Apr 2021 13 1804
Is empathy uniquely human? 7 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 15 2146
A 3,000-year-old 'lost golden city' has been unearthed in Egypt 7 Wicked Blue Apr 2021 Apr 2021 15 3637
Pacific Northwest's 'forest gardens' were deliberately planted by Indigenous people 7 jeffreyi Apr 2021 Apr 2021 16 1873
Ancient Australian Aboriginal memory tool superior to 'memory palace' learning 7 Judi Lynn May 2021 May 2021 14 2539
Shackled skeleton identified as rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain 7 Judi Lynn Jun 2021 Jun 2021 8 2100
Experts name new species of human ancestor (Homo bodoensis) 7 Eugene Oct 2021 Nov 2021 4 1987
Stone age brain surgery 7 wnylib Mar 2022 Mar 2022 3 2174
Human life in Canada's Yukon Territory 24,000 years ago 7 wnylib Mar 2022 Mar 2022 5 1863
Mungo Man: 42,000-year-old Aboriginal remains to be reburied 7 Sherman A1 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 3 1957
The Hero in the Labyrinth The Pioneering Work of Joseph Campbell 7 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 16 1725
Why Archeologists Are Too Scared To Open The Tomb Of China's First Emperor 7 Judi Lynn Jan 2023 Jan 2023 11 2336
Human Genome Recovered From 5,700-Year-Old Chewing Gum 7 Wicked Blue Jan 2023 Jan 2023 16 2036
Anthropologist Believes An Ancient Human Species May Have Been Sighted On Flores Island 7 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 40 4016
Scotland's 'oldest' tartan found in Highlands bog 7 Wicked Blue Mar 2023 Nov 2023 20 2881
Ancient Skull Found in China Is Unlike Any Human Seen Before 7 Warpy Aug 2023 Aug 2023 21 2516
A 24,000-YEAR-OLD DISCOVERY IN A EUROPEAN CAVE LEFT RESEARCHERS STUNNED. NOW THEY'RE CALLING IT THE "MOST IMPORTANT" OF ITS KIND 7 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 28 2772
Lying down and vomiting between courses: This is how Ancient Romans would feast 7 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 2219
Archaeologists are too scared to look inside the tomb of China's first Emperor 7 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 14 2000
Unexpected Origins of Mysterious Mummies Buried in Boats in a Chinese Desert 7 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 25 2319
Centuries-old bottles of cherries unearthed at George Washington's home 7 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 2605
Scientists solved mysterious origin of Stonehenge's Altar Stone: Scotland 7 Judi Lynn Aug 2024 Sep 2024 18 2104
Cahokia: One of the 1st cities in North America 7 Judi Lynn Sep 2024 Sep 2024 17 1987
Archaeologists discover lost cities that mysteriously 'disappeared.' It changes the history of civilization 7 Judi Lynn Nov 2024 Nov 2024 55 3506
Butchered bones reveal massacre in Bronze Age Britain 7 Judi Lynn Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 1855
The World's Largest Pyramid Site Isn't in Egypt and It's Twice the Size. 7 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 29 2320
The Biggest Technological Development in Human History Happened All Across the World Around the Same Time, by Groups of 7 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 19 2097
Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold--not the tropics 7 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Dec 2025 20 3107

Anthropology Continued...

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'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney Neolithic site 7 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 38 2266
18,000-Year-Old Evidence of Human Brain Consumption Found in Poland's Maszycka Cave 7 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 23 13 995
Archaeologists discover bread that predates agriculture by 4,000 years 7 left-of-center2012 Sep 2018 Sep 2018 24 3061
Penises of the Ancient World 7 JHan Nov 2018 Nov 2018 7 2535
Confused about if this article should be posted in Science or Anthropology.... 7 Judi Lynn Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1917
'It would destroy it': new international airport for Machu Picchu sparks outrage 7 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 14 3264
Church Hidden Under Turkish Lake For 1,600 Years Reappears As Water Pollution Clears 7 Judi Lynn Jun 2020 Jun 2020 67 5802
This stunning Uyghur complex dates from exactly 777 and it was never used -- now, researchers know wh 7 Judi Lynn Jun 2020 Jun 2020 61 6042
One Mystery of Stonehenge's Origins Has Finally Been Solved 7 Judi Lynn Sep 2020 Sep 2020 24 3087
Giant cat drawing discovered on a hillside in Peru 7 Judi Lynn Oct 2020 Oct 2020 12 2397
Two-million-year-old skull of human 'cousin' unearthed 7 left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 Nov 2020 8 2910
Coroner rules object found at Kirkhaugh Cairn is treasure 7 Judi Lynn Dec 2020 Dec 2020 20 2130
Sami people ask Danish queen to return sacred witchcraft trial drum 7 Judi Lynn Oct 2021 Oct 2021 29 3094
Possible oldest prehistoric art ever known is discovered by Chinese scientists in the 'roof of the w 7 Judi Lynn Oct 2021 Oct 2021 41 3585
Neanderthal family life revealed by ancient DNA from Siberian cave 7 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 15 1932
Curly hair kept early humans cool 7 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 6 2171
A major UCLA study says that at least 65 species of animals laugh 7 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 13 1792
Hundreds of skeletons fill this remote Himalayan lake. How did they get there? 6 Judi Lynn Feb 2021 Feb 2021 5 2605
3-D Reconstructions Reveal the Faces of Two Medieval Dukes 6 Judi Lynn Mar 2021 Mar 2021 14 2626
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