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Bronze Age hexagonal 'pyramid' not like anything 'found before in the Eurasian steppe' 4 Eugene Sep 2023 Sep 2023 12 2127
Rare Neolithic Find: Woodworks Using Stone Tools on 5-Foot Logs From 476,000 Years Ago Found in Afri 4 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 16 1616
Large-scale warfare occurred in Europe '1,000 years earlier than previously thought' 4 Eugene Nov 2023 Nov 2023 5 2186
Hunter-gatherer approach to childcare suggests that the key to mother and child well-being may be many caregivers 4 eShirl Nov 2023 Nov 2023 6 1810
This Is The Face Of "Dragon Man", Modern Humans' Closest Relative 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 16 2067
Xinhua Silk Road: Museum showcasing culture of China's largest prehistoric stone city opens to public 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 1898
The World's Oldest Settlements Were Built by a Culture Nobody Expected 4 Warpy Dec 2023 Dec 2023 20 1985
Marking the Solstice: Ireland's Ancient Stone Circles... 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 10 1403
Ancient bricks reveal enigmas in Earth's magnetic field 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 13 1585
Archaeologists have made a shocking discovery after a re-examination of a mummified teen mom who died in childbirth 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 40 3667
Scientists May Have Found an Ancient Path Into America 24,000 Years Ago 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 10 1752
4,500-Year-Old Sumerian Palace Discovered in Iraq Desert 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 12 1861
New Fall of Civilizations video coming soon! Podcast out now! 4 barbaraann Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 1717
Undeciphered script from Easter Island may predate European colonization 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 1716
Great Apes Love to Tease, Poke and Pester, Suggesting the Urge to Annoy Is Millions of Years Old 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1861
'Extremely Rare' 4,000-Year-Old Copper Dagger Discovered in Forest 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 18 2528
Aboriginal people made pottery and sailed to distant offshore islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 2056
Neolithic women in Europe were tied up and buried alive in ritual sacrifices, study suggests 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 2084
Archaeologists discover 7,000 year old 'standing stone circles' near Saudi Arabia's Al-Ula 4 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 1546
Pompeii Skeletons Reveal Another Disaster Added to Vesuvius Eruption's Horror 4 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 17 1719
Stunning image reveals Revolutionary War soldier whose bones were found in N.J. field 4 Wicked Blue Aug 2024 Aug 2024 12 1824
SCIENTISTS FIND EVIDENCE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY USED TO BUILD EGYPTIAN PYRAMID 4 Judi Lynn Aug 2024 Aug 2024 21 2509
Cave of Swimmers: 9,000-year-old rock art of people swimming in what's now the arid Sahara 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2024 Sep 2024 12 2068
New evidence upends contentious Easter Island theory, scientists say 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2024 Sep 2024 14 1769
Scientists Just Used Really Old Satellites to Find 3,000-Year-Old Underground Aqueducts 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2024 Sep 2024 16 1690
Archaeologists discover southern army fought at 'Europe's oldest battle' 4 erronis Sep 2024 Sep 2024 16 1845
Five Thousand Years Ago, Africa Had A Major Civilization We Forgot 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2024 Sep 2024 9 1721
TY so much Judi and anyone who posts! 4 mntleo2 Oct 2024 Nov 2024 14 1529
Utah tourist caught defacing ancient petroglyphs is unmasked 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2024 Dec 2024 12 1808
Taking a class on Native American Religions this Semester @ ASU... Both North/South Americas!!! So Aawesome! 4 FirstLight Jan 2025 Feb 2025 3 1355

Anthropology Continued...

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Looters steal 500-year-old cave painting using electric saw, Mexico officials say 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 1502
1.5 Million-Year-Old Hand Axes and Seven Paleolithic Sites Discovered in Iraq's Western Desert 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 11 1897
Malta's Megalithic Structures Among the Oldest and Most Mysterious 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 34 2033
Are We Still Primitive? How Ancient Survival Instincts Shape Modern Power Struggles 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1411
Archaeologists discover 'miracle' in ancient Egyptian tomb 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2025 Apr 2025 25 2422
Man Tries to Perform Exorcism, Instead Allegedly Murders His Mother 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1425
Archaeologists discover what could be world's oldest boomerang in Europe 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1403
Textile archaeology 4 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1469
Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from 4 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 23 1867
How Did The World Get So Ugly? - The Cultural Tutor Sheehan Quirke 4 BootinUp Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 1844
Easter Island Statue Construction Wasn't a Top-Down Affair 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 12 1518
Study Finds Golden Retrievers and Humans Share Genes for Anxiety and Intelligence 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Dec 2025 16 1639
Giant stone monuments older than Stonehenge were built by an ancient 'water cult', archaeologists say 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Jan 2026 8 1469
New Research Reveals How Londoners Used Death Data to Survive the Great Plague 4 Judi Lynn Feb 21 Feb 22 16 1091
1.77-Million-Year-Old Homo erectus Crania in China Challenge Long-Held Timelines of Human Dispersal 4 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 23 14 1043
Beadnet dress: A 4,500-year-old ancient Egyptian funeral 'gown' that was in vogue during the Old Kingdom 4 Judi Lynn Apr 6 Apr 6 15 1073
220,000-Year-Old Quarry Site in South Africa Studied 4 Judi Lynn Apr 9 Apr 9 16 943
How Neanderthals stopped humans being wiped out by flu 4 left-of-center2012 Oct 2018 Oct 2018 10 1864
Ancient Argyll glen hailed as Britain's answer to Egypt's famous Valley of Kings by TV anthropologis 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 9 2150
Clever, tech-savvy Neanderthals 'were long-distance killers' 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 8 2015
A taste for fat may have made us human, says study 4 Kali Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1821
Mighty Warrior's Medieval Sword Pulled Triumphantly ... from Denmark Sewer 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 9 2000
Researchers Reaffirm Remains in Viking Warrior Tomb Belonged to a Woman 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 24 2376
The Human Brain Has been Getting Smaller Since the Stone Age 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1870
MYSTERY 8,000-YEAR-OLD ABANDONED STRUCTURE DISCOVERED WITH DECLASSIFIED IMAGES FROM COLD WAR SPY PLA 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 29 2525
Ancient tomb discovered in Egypt dating back 4,500 years 4 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 6 1966
Large Mound in Russia Reveals 2,500-Year-Old Skeletons of Elite Nomadic Tribesmen...And a Horse Head 4 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 7 1983
Bonobo mothers meddle in their sons' sex lives, making them 3 times more likely to father children 4 milestogo May 2019 May 2019 3 2129
Chew on this: Ancient Scandinavians tasted gum 10,000 years ago 4 Judi Lynn May 2019 Jun 2019 5 2161
14,000-year-old cave footprints provide snapshot of Stone Age family day out 4 Soph0571 May 2019 Jun 2019 38 4765

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Ancient "Birdman" Skeleton Buried In Costume Unearthed In Siberia 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 7 1995
A bridge made of grass 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 22 3115
First Neolithic City Was So Overcrowded People Started Trying to Kill Each Other 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Aug 2019 6 3084
Mysterious Etchings in Peruvian Desert Prove to Be Foreign Birds. 4 left-of-center2012 Jun 2019 Jun 2019 6 2129
Bones uncover mysterious early history of the Neanderthals 4 jpak Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 1988
Ancient Skeletons with Alien-Like Heads Unearthed in Croatia 4 Judi Lynn Aug 2019 Sep 2019 11 2578
Idaho Site Shows Humans Were in North America 16,000 Years Ago 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 4 1996
This Ancient Belt Buckle Retrieved from 'Russian Atlantis' Looks Like a Bedazzled iPhone Case 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 11 2158
Neanderthals weren't the strong, strapping cavepeople we imagine 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2019 Sep 2019 11 1986
Uncovering secrets of mystery civilization in Saudi Arabia 4 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 27 4101
7,000-year-old fortress wall uncovered in southern Turkey 4 Judi Lynn Oct 2019 Oct 2019 15 2785
'Stone age seafarers' depicted in newly discovered rock art in Sweden 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 24 3203
Bones of ape living 12m years ago point to genesis of upright walking 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 5 1880
Physicists Just Created the Most Detailed Simulation of the Universe in History 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 10 1816
Most Notable Royal Inbreeding Throughout History and the Craziness that Ensued 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1984
Ancient Armenian Female Warrior Suffered Hatchet Wounds And Arrow Blow Before Death 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 12 2114
Like Neanderthals, early modern humans used their teeth as tools 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 1924
What ancient homes looked like, from the Egyptians to the Aztecs 4 mfcorey1 Dec 2019 Dec 2019 22 3231
Monkeys smashing nuts with stones hint at how human tool use evolved 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1556
Mass grave shows how Black Death devastated the countryside 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 14 1820
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