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430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found 2 Judi Lynn Yesterday Yesterday 54 1244
At a 'Tea Party' With Scientists, This Ape Showed Some Imagination 2 Judi Lynn Yesterday Yesterday 15 486
Only Humans Have Chins -- and They Emerged as an Evolutionary Accident 12 Judi Lynn Yesterday Yesterday 19 719
Ancient bone may prove legendary war elephant crossing of Alps 1 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 10 247
Ancient Inuits Seafarers Conquered the High Arctic 4000 Years Ago and Built Villages There Their travels shape the ecosy 1 Judi Lynn Monday Monday 15 323
Book Review: How Sickness Has Transformed Civilization 3 Judi Lynn Monday Monday 9 333
Ancient DNA reveals Europe's last hunter-gatherers survived until 2500 BCE 0 Judi Lynn Monday Monday 9 343
2,000-Year-Old Iron Age Temple Discovered in Denmark Reveals Powerful Northern European Center 1 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 11 407
2,000-Year-Old Iron Age Temple Discovered in Denmark Reveals Powerful Northern European Center 3 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 26 757
Hunter-gatherers took refuge in European 'water world' for millennia 2 Judi Lynn Saturday Sunday 14 450
Rules of mysterious ancient board game decoded by AI, scientists say 1 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 3 349
A 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites the story of ancient Egyptian tools 0 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 10 326
Prehistoric discovery in Oregon cave older than Egypt's Great Pyramid rewrites human history 10 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 60 2040
DNA Reveals the People Who Replaced Stonehenge's Builders Along With 90% of Britain's Population Came from a Dutch Swamp 3 Judi Lynn Friday Sunday 9 421
A Closer Look at King Tut's Footwear: The Pharaoh Was Buried With Over 80 Pairs of Sandals Made from Gold and Papyrus 10 Judi Lynn Friday Monday 8 486
Archaeologists find 10,000-year-old rock art site in Egypt's Sinai 0 Judi Lynn Friday Friday 6 335
Archaeologists Uncovered a Lost City Hidden Beneath the Desert for 1,200 Years 1 Judi Lynn Friday Friday 12 512
Cambridge students unearth Viking-era 'execution pit' 0 Judi Lynn Friday Friday 7 439
Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong 1 Eugene Thursday Thursday 14 475
Oldest known sewn hide and other artifacts from Oregon caves shed light on early clothing in harsh climates 1 mahatmakanejeeves Wednesday Thursday 14 383
Earliest hand-held wooden tools found in Greece date back 430,000 years 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 2 9 466
These 500,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Discovered 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 2 8 444
Leonardo da Vinci's DNA may be embedded in his art 2 Bayard Jan 11 Jan 12 11 743
3 Million Year-Old Tools Found Rewrite History 2 Gaugamela Dec 26 Dec 26 13 920
A Massive Stone Wall Built 7,000 Years Ago Was Found Intact Beneath the Sea Off the Coast of France 2 Judi Lynn Dec 25 Dec 25 31 980
In 1940, A Dog Investigated A Hole In A Tree And Discovered A Vast Cave Filled With Ancient Human Artwork 5 Judi Lynn Dec 25 Jan 16 45 1528
Giant stone monuments older than Stonehenge were built by an ancient 'water cult', archaeologists say 4 Judi Lynn Dec 25 Jan 7 8 796
Step inside the lost Native American city that rivalled medieval London 2 Judi Lynn Dec 4 Dec 16 21 1049
"Seeking the Koko' Ta'ay"--Taiwan's Little People, Big Questions 1 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 5 650
A New Study Revealed the Secret Origin of One of America's Most Mysterious Monuments 0 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 15 841

Anthropology Continued...

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Archaeologists in Wisconsin Unearth an Ancient 'Parking Lot' With 16 Dugout Canoes--Including One That's 5,200 Years Old 8 Judi Lynn Dec 1 Dec 2 27 1404
Study Finds Golden Retrievers and Humans Share Genes for Anxiety and Intelligence 4 Judi Lynn Nov 30 Dec 2 16 1006
It Rivaled Ancient Egypt, Then Vanished: New Study Pinpoints Why the Indus Valley Fell 2 Judi Lynn Nov 30 Nov 30 19 925
Archaeologists Uncover Massive 2,250-Year-Old Monument Beneath Ancient Roman City 1 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 14 994
Archaeologists Reveal Ancient, Single-Log Boats Used to Navigate Prehistoric England 1 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 10 831
Aologist is racing to preserve Sudan's heritage as war threatens to erase its cultural past 1 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 4 630
Native American city that rivalled medieval London 0 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 15 866
DNA analysis suggests first Australians arrived about 60,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 3 605
People Sailed To Australia And New Guinea 60,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 5 602
Easter Island Statue Construction Wasn't a Top-Down Affair 4 Judi Lynn Nov 27 Nov 27 12 886
Massive prehistoric structure found near Stonehenge 0 Judi Lynn Nov 27 Nov 27 18 988
Neolithic 'amphitheater' uncovered at Karahantepe archaeological site 0 Judi Lynn Nov 27 Nov 27 11 771
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney Neolithic site 7 Judi Lynn Nov 27 Nov 27 38 1771
First-of-its-kind 3D model lets you explore Easter Island statues up close 5 erronis Nov 26 Nov 26 12 870
A Stunning Taş Tepeler Discovery: 12,000-Year-Old Human Faces Emerge from Sefertepe 0 eShirl Nov 26 Nov 26 14 852
Archaeologists lift the lid on a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus hidden beneath Budapest 1 Jilly_in_VA Nov 26 Nov 26 15 839
Flint Dibble exposes Graham Hancock for the fraud he is. Once again.......lol 0 wolfie001 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 857
How Did The World Get So Ugly? - The Cultural Tutor Sheehan Quirke 4 BootinUp Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 1259
Time Team Classics: Beaker Settlement in Spain 1 eShirl Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 769
12,000-year-old rock art hints at the Arabian Desert's lush past 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 1152
Archaeologists Unearth Rare 9,000-Year-Old Stone Age Hammer in Norway 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 1085
Lakes in the Gobi Desert nurtured human life 8,000-years-ago 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 15 986
Bird calls may speak to origins of human language 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 806
The Ancestral People Behind Earth's Most Influential Language 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 963
Early Humans Weren't Apex Predators After All. They Were Eaten by Leopards--A Lot. 16 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Oct 2025 25 3644
42,000-year-old Shell Jewellery Workshop Discovered - The Oldest in Western Europe 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Oct 2025 27 2834
Science history: Rosetta stone is deciphered, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 1766
Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans 1 muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 Sep 2025 17 1994
Haniwa Dancers: 1,500-year-old ghostly figurines thought to hold the souls of the dead 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 1128
Ancient Humans Used Indigo Plant 34,000 Years Ago: First Evidence of Non-Food Plant Processing Found in Georgia 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 15 1241

Anthropology Continued...

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Drought uncovers 40 ancient tombs in Iraq 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 1115
Catalhoyuk Unearths New Secrets: Social Change and the "House of the Dead" in One of the World's Oldest Cities 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 997
Dried Lake Reveals New Statue on Easter Island 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 28 1557
Underfloor Heating System Discovered in 1,700-Year-Old Roman Bath 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 18 1912
Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold--not the tropics 7 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Dec 3 20 2581
New Evidence Suggests Humans May Have Used Bows and Arrows Earlier Than Expected 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1292
Humans Aren't as Special as We Once Thought 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 23 1601
Ancient shells and pottery reveal the vast 3,200-years-old trade routes of Oceania's Indigenous peoples 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 1011
Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from 4 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 23 1580
Urban civilization rose in Southern Mesopotamia on the back of tides 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1091
Outrage over plans to house battery megasite next to ancient rock art 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1010
Canadian Archaeologists Excavate Homestead of Black Rancher John Ware 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 995
Stone Age Farmers Settled Near Dortmund Airport 7,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 974
Archaeologists discover 'miracle' in ancient Egyptian tomb 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 19 2239
70,000-Year-Old Paleolithic Neanderthal Workshop Found 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 56 2364
Isotope ratios provide a window into prehistoric diets 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1040
3,500-Year-Old Opal Workshop and Rare Lithophones Unearthed in Vietnam 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1112
See 'hyperrealistic' reconstructions of 2 Stone Age sisters who worked in brutal mine in the Czech Republic 6,000 years 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 19 1515
Some Early Hominins Evolved to Walk Upright While Still Living in Trees 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 16 1136
Our Ancient Ancestors Loved Eating Grasses, and It Eventually Transformed Their Teeth 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 1164
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