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Neolithic dog reveals tales behind Orkney's monuments 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 20 1477
You Are What You Eat: Neanderthals, Woolly Mammoths Apparently Shared Genetic Traits 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1097
Dragons: A Brief History of the Mythical, Fire-Breathing Beasts 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1250
The First Cave Art from the Balkans May Date Back 30,000 Years 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 983
New discovery throws light on mystery of pyramids' construction 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 32 1662
MYSTERY 8,000-YEAR-OLD ABANDONED STRUCTURE DISCOVERED WITH DECLASSIFIED IMAGES FROM COLD WAR SPY PLA 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 29 2044
The Human Brain Has been Getting Smaller Since the Stone Age 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1380
Norway Will Repatriate Thousands of Artifacts Taken From Easter Island 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1050
Gorillas Appear to Grieve for Their Dead 1 milestogo Apr 2019 Apr 2019 10 1288
Faces of medieval Scots reconstructed after remains found 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 23 1886
4,000-YEAR-OLD ROCK ART DEPICTING DANCING TRIBE CELEBRATING BIRTH DISCOVERED IN CHINA 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1322
Archaeologists discover 'exceptional' site at Lake Titicaca 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 7 1186
"Fast Food" Establishment Discovered in Pompeii 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1504
Polish Academics Protest Abuse of Term 'Anthropology' in Antisemitic Newspaper's Headline 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 984
Etruscan tomb in Corsica may yield secrets on civilization's decline 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1048
What Can Fingerprints Tell Us About Ancient Artisans? 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 887
Researchers find ancient Maya farms in Mexican wetlands 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1143
This Silly, Bug-Eyed Dwarf Deity Was Defender of 'Everything Good' 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 6 1250
Norway's Kon-Tiki museum to return thousands of Easter Island artefacts 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1034
Warm weather pushed Neanderthals into cannibalism 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1165
Archaeologists Find Bound Bodies Of Enslaved Africans In Portuguese Trash Dump 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1183
Widespread tool-using chimp culture discovered in Democratic Republic of Congo 1 milestogo Mar 2019 Mar 2019 11 1297
Exclusive: Aztec war sacrifices found in Mexico may point to elusive royal tomb 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 2125
Archaeological Geneticists Call Jack The Ripper DNA Study 'Unpublishable Nonsense' 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1246
Ancient Monkey Bone Tools Shake Up the Narrative of Early Human Migration to the Rain Forest 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1320
Death Mask of Pakal the Great 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 9 2078
Birds and Humans Are Depicted Together in This Rare Scene From 12,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1289
Holy fudge: soft foods helped humans form 'f' and 'v' sounds - study 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1247
Mary Rose crew might have included sailors of African heritage 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1041
Babylonian treasure seized at Heathrow to be returned to Iraq 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1361

Anthropology Continued...

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Stone Age Cave Symbols May All Be Part of a Single Prehistoric Proto-Writing System 11 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 31 3035
Ancient civilization sacrificed more than 100 of their children to stop bad weather, say archaelogis 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 5 1144
'A big jump': People might have lived in Australia twice as long as we thought 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1305
Maya ritual cave 'untouched' for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists 5 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 15 1769
History's largest child sacrifice was a response to devastating weather, archaeologists say 1 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1379
Mystery of human skull defleshed and boiled by ancient farmers 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1345
Researchers uncover evidence of Indigenous aquaculture 3,500 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1090
This Is How Different Cultures Grieve With Food 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 7 1351
Searching for the ships Cortés burned before destroying the Aztecs 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1016
Ming Dynasty Skeletons Reveal Secrets of Foot-Binding 13 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Mar 2019 8 3287
A 2,000-year-old tattoo needle still has ink on the tip 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 5 1114
Human Generosity Study Shows Altruistic Societies Better Survive Hard Times 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 12 1226
Students build woven pavilion to shade archaeologists in Peru's desert 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 5 1245
Inca Ritual Baths Fed by Waterfall Reveals More of Its Secrets 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1195
Did Bronze Age Europeans Keep Foxes As Pets? 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 8 1052
Researchers Reaffirm Remains in Viking Warrior Tomb Belonged to a Woman 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 24 1694
The ancient people in the high-latitude Arctic had well-developed trade 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1201
Isotopes found in bones suggest Neanderthals were fresh meat eaters 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 4 1172
Archaeologists discover Incan tomb in Peru 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 27 2763
Skeletons of elite members of mysterious ancient civilisation found 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 12 1539
Skeleton of Teen Girl Found Buried Next to Mysterious Pyramid in Egypt 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 5 1127
Seven moral rules found all around the world 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 8 1564
Maya bones bring a lost civilization to life 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 8 1061
Prehistoric Sailors May Be Responsible for Stonehenge, Other Megaliths 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1284
Underwater Archaeologists Find Surprising Artifacts from Major Roman Naval Battle 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 12 1466
Siberian Cave Findings Shed Light on Extinct Human Species 5 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Feb 2019 11 2078
DNA reveals early mating between Asian herders and European farmers 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 5 1396
Indigenous Brazilians And Environmental Protection - Analysis 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 996
Mighty Warrior's Medieval Sword Pulled Triumphantly ... from Denmark Sewer 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 9 1508
A taste for fat may have made us human, says study 4 Kali Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1326

Anthropology Continued...

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The Lost World of the Maya is Finally Emerging From the Jungle 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 8 1436
You Can Now Look At The Faces Of Some Of Britain's Earliest Inhabitants 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 16 1664
Homo sapiens or Denisovans? Who made stunning cave jewellery and artefacts up to 48,000 years ago? 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1151
MEET THE HOMO ERECTUS: WHAT OUR ANCESTORS ATE, LOOKED LIKE, AND MORE 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 7 1108
How seeing snakes in the grass helped primates to evolve 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1037
Vikings brought leprosy to Ireland 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 5 1138
Archaeologists Have Discovered a Lost Metropolis in South Africa 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 11 1489
Neanderthals and Denisovans Shared a Siberian Cave for Thousands of Years, New Research Suggests 0 jpak Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1110
Clever, tech-savvy Neanderthals 'were long-distance killers' 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 8 1485
How capable were early hominins of crossing water? 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 6 1256
Artificial Intelligence identifies unknown human ancestor 6 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 26 2629
Easter Island statues: mystery behind their location revealed 6 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 18 2394
11,500-year-old animal bones in Jordan suggest early dogs helped humans hunt 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1045
Human's ancient relative found in China has modern dental growth 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1048
New Heiltsuk website explores 6,000-year-old village 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1152
Rare Ancient Peruvian Death Mask Found Off Florida Coast 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 8 1211
Humans burdened cattle 6000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 943
3,000-Year-Old Tomb of King Tut Finally Restored 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 18 3026
The ancient tombs of Colombia's Tierradentro 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1223
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 1591
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