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Monkeys smashing nuts with stones hint at how human tool use evolved 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1185
Ancient rock art at Carnarvon Gorge destroyed after walkway explodes in bushfire 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1143
Early Humans May Have Scavenged More than They Hunted 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1104
Viking runestone may allude to extreme winter, study says 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1240
A handful of recent discoveries have shattered anthropologists' picture of where humans came from, a 14 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 27 3348
Chimps Have Been Caught Throwing Rocks at Trees And Yelling For No Apparent Reason 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1353
Discovery of ancient Egyptian beads sheds new light on historic trade routes 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1087
Seafaring South Americans began settling Greater Antilles 5,800 years ago 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1125
Demon Drawing Spotted on Assyrian Clay Tablet 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1344
Archaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta Warriors 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1356
Subtle Ancient Footprints Come to Light 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1048
Ancient copper smelting ruins discovered in SW China 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1016
Divers to retrieve Bronze Age artefacts from Swiss lake 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 937
Chimpanzees learn to crack nuts faster than humans 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 912
Researchers Discover Walruses Were Involved in the Mysterious Disappearance of Greenland's Norse Col 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1380
170,000-Year-Old Cooked Starch Found in South Africa 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1513
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Tomb Containing Three Generations of Warrior Women Unearthed in Russia 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1055
Denisovan Research Reveals That Early Humans Were More Complex Than We Thought 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1102
Study reveals music's universal patterns across societies worldwide 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 927
Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology combines earthquake science with Indigenous knowledge 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 0 926
5 Big Archaeology Discoveries to Watch for in 2020 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 5 1343
Giant birds may help scientists finally solve the mystery of the Nazca lines 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 5 1403
This Cave Contains the Oldest Story Ever Recorded 15 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 42 4366
Surprise: Ancient Inuit Mummy Scans Reveal Possible Heart Disease 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 956
Archaeologists found the burial of Scythian Amazon with a head dress on Don 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 1615
The Irish Pigged Out on Pork in a 'Mammoth' Iron Age Building 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 13 1137
Archaeologists Are Unearthing the Stories of the Past Faster Than Ever Before 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 1000
Kulub: Dig uncovers large Mayan palace in Mexico 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 1798
Te Lapa: Mysterious island lights that help Polynesians navigate 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 10 1633

Anthropology Continued...

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What Is the Second Greatest Mystery in Anthropology? 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 5 1544
World's oldest figurative artwork uncovered 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 26 3378
Archaeologists in Greece find 3,500-year-old royal tombs 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 6 1312
Isotope analysis points to prisoners of war, 1,400 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 955
Fossil Whale Shows Transition Stage to Tail-Powered Swimming 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 857
Archaeologists Unearth Beads Made of Human Teeth in Ancient Turkish City 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 1146
Scientists discover ancient gum and recover human DNA: 1 Laffy Kat Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 1054
What ancient homes looked like, from the Egyptians to the Aztecs 4 mfcorey1 Dec 2019 Dec 2019 22 2857
Neolithic chewing gum helps recreate image of ancient Dane 0 Eugene Dec 2019 Dec 2019 8 1201
Small-scale atlatl artifacts suggest children were taught how to use them 3 Jim__ Dec 2019 Dec 2019 7 1291
Buried Christian (and Pagan) Basilica Discovered in Ethiopia's 'Lost Kingdom' of Aksum 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 7 1016
Photos: Carvings Depict Maya Ballplayers in Action 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 4 1141
Painting in the Americas before European colonization 8 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 42 4986
Like Neanderthals, early modern humans used their teeth as tools 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 1499
Time to ditch the harmful myth of the 'noble' hunter-gatherer 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 8 1186
Bones of ape living 12m years ago point to genesis of upright walking 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 5 1512
Unique sled dogs helped the inuit thrive in the North American Arctic 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 2 1108
Most Notable Royal Inbreeding Throughout History and the Craziness that Ensued 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1583
Archaeologists tie ancient bones to a revolt chronicled on the Rosetta Stone 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 10 1134
Warrior woman: Ella Al-Shamahi on the female Viking fighters who held their own on the battlefield 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1099
How Dogs and People Ended Up Ruling the World 5 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1445
Cave lion figurine made of woolly mammoth tusk found at Denisova Cave 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 24 2061
Ancient Armenian Female Warrior Suffered Hatchet Wounds And Arrow Blow Before Death 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 12 1726
Painstaking clean-up of Scottish Viking hoard unlocks new secrets 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 14 1240
The mystery of Harappan script: An enigma from the ancient world 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1196
Two-Horned 'Rook' Might Be the Oldest Chess Piece on Earth 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 6 1203
300,000 years ago, nine human species lived on Earth. Did homo sapiens exterminate the others? 12 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 18 2610
Greece's Naxos Island May Have Been Inhabited 200,000 Years Ago 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 21 2112
Universality and diversity in human song 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1208
Jewelry made from HUMAN TEETH found in the ruins of 9000-year-old Turkish city, 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1024

Anthropology Continued...

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Physicists Just Created the Most Detailed Simulation of the Universe in History 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 10 1410
Before We Find Aliens, Humans Need to Figure Ourselves Out, Anthropologist Says 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1355
Japan team finds 143 stunning new images in Nazca Lines of Peru 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 15 1378
The technology of enchantment 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1081
Archaeologists find ancient site older than Machu Picchu 11 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 38 5304
Bolivia, before the Spanish invasion, had "floating gardens," too, like Mexico. 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 1 1319
'Stone age seafarers' depicted in newly discovered rock art in Sweden 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 24 2718
The Reinvention of Humanity by Charles King review - a revolution in anthropology 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1158
Centuries-Old 'Witch Marks' in Hidden Cave Can Finally Be Seen ... in 3D 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 13 1457
Mexican mammoth trap provides first evidence of prehistoric hunting pits 3 Eugene Nov 2019 Nov 2019 11 1517
Drone-mounted lasers reveal ancient settlement off Florida coast 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 12 1243
Meet Erika the Red: Viking women were warriors too, say scientists 5 Eugene Nov 2019 Nov 2019 12 1842
Drone images provide new insights into lost Bolivian civilisation - video 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 1 1004
Laser scanning reveals 'lost' ancient Mexican city 'had as many buildings as Manhattan' 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1004
Archaeologists Uncover 17th-Century Mexican Tunnel Decorated With Mysterious Aztec Carvings 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1300
Hoard of golden treasure stumbled upon by metal detectorist revealed to be most important Anglo-Saxo 2 Eugene Nov 2019 Nov 2019 13 1358
New scientific evidence proves Naxos was inhabited 200,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 8 1249
Neanderthals were master fire-starters, cave chemistry suggests 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1048
Ancient Greece just got tens of thousands of years more ancient 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1022
Flint flake tool partially covered by birch tar adds to evidence of Neanderthal complex thinking 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1013
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