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Orangutan communication sheds light on human speech origins 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 5 1306
OLDEST KNOWN PROJECTILE POINTS UNCOVERED IN THE AMERICAS 10 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 35 2794
THE VIKING BERSERKER 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 10 1110
Meet Ramesses II: Scientists reconstruct the 'handsome' face of ancient Egypt's most POWERFUL pharao 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 16 1411
Archaeologists discover Urartian king's temple in Van excavations 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 6 965
NEANDERTHAL MAN HAD A THING FOR BIG EAGLES -- AND HYENAS 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 12 1141
Confronting the Confounding Cosmic Mind of Homo Sapiens 10 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 15 1884
An Ancient Puzzle Posed 2,500 Years Ago Now Has an Ingenious Solution 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 13 1285
New Views of Neanderthal Are Reshaping Prehistory 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 12 1212
Ancient Humans May Have Sailed The Mediterranean 450,000 Years Ago 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 16 1159
Our top ancient archaeological discoveries of 2022 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 17 1234
Ukrainian troops uncover ancient Roman settlement while digging trenches in Kherson Oblast 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 11 1063
11 ancient sites that are mysteriously aligned with the sun on the winter solstice, in photos. 10 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 35 3298
Homo Sapiens May Not Have Been the First Species to Use Fire 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 10 1391
A Milanese friar mentions North America in 1345 text, 150 years before Columbus 12 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 25 3000
Over the holidays, try talking to your relatives like an anthropologist 14 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 32 3773
Archaeologists identify 4,000-year-old shaman's toolkit near Stonehenge 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 28 1629
Oldest scene in world: 11,000-year-old wall relief near Gbeklitepe 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 15 1332
Coloured portraits of mummies unearthed in EgyptArchaeologists Have Unearthed the First Full-Color P 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 5 968
Medieval ship found in Norway's biggest lake 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 11 1115
Huge Roman fort in Northumberland to be excavated in lottery-backed project 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 4 699
Chimpanzee nut cracking leaves telltale marks on stones, providing clues to human evolution 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 1 710
Mysterious ancient humans may have given people of Papua New Guinea an immune advantage 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 3 807
Earliest known evidence of Maya calendar in Guatemala 1 wnylib Dec 2022 Dec 2022 7 1250
Early Clovis points found in Michigan 0 wnylib Dec 2022 Dec 2022 13 1107
Emperor king's top secret assassination letter finally decrypted after 500 years 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 6 921
EUROPE'S OLDEST MAP DATES BACK OVER 4,000 YEARS INTO THE BRONZE AGE 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 13 1208
How different the world would look now if Neanderthals had won 16 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 14 2253
An exceptional collection of stucco masks is preserved in the archaeological zone of Tonin, Chiapas 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 7 1055
Neanderthals Cooked Surprisingly Complex Meals 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 18 1119

Anthropology Continued...

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Archaeologists Find 1,900-Year-Old Snacks in Sewers Beneath the Colosseum 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 3 1038
Southeast Alaska village of Kake welcomes artifacts -- some over 200 years old -- back home 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 1 758
5,000-yr-old house ruins found in central China 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 6 891
Homo naledi may have lit fires in underground caves at least 236,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2022 Dec 2022 12 962
Gold coin proves 'fake' Roman emperor was real 12 Wicked Blue Nov 2022 Dec 2022 35 3288
8 billion people: how different the world would look if Neanderthals had prevailed 9 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 10 1611
THE DEADLIEST MINING DISASTERS IN HISTORY 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 5 965
It turns out that chimpanzees and gorillas can form lasting friendships 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 6 1158
The Hero in the Labyrinth The Pioneering Work of Joseph Campbell 7 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 16 1369
This 2,000-Year-Old Inscription Changes Our Understanding of the Basque Language 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 11 1069
Child Who Lived 8,000 Years Ago May Have Been Buried With a Wolf 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 14 1176
THE COUNTRY OF SCOTLAND HAS OVER 400 DIFFERENT WAYS TO TALK ABOUT SNOW 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 6 1010
Good intentions and missed opportunities: The educational experiences of young refugees 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 717
Jacques Ellul And The Idols Of Transhumanism - Analysis 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 1 814
Auckland Museum returns four taonga to Aboriginal people 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 746
Soon After Dinosaur Decimation, Our Primate Ancestors Began Pouncing on Prey 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 4 808
ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXPLORE MYSTERIOUS UNDERWATER CAIRNS AT LAKE CONSTANCE 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 7 1345
Cave yields Neanderthals find Fossilised bone fragments of a father, teenage daughter and other rela 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 11 1061
Vast tunnel found beneath ancient Egyptian temple 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 18 1152
Cool leaf! Study records chimp showing off object in human-like way 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 1158
Fossilized Fish Teeth Could Be Earliest Evidence of Cooking 2 Eugene Nov 2022 Nov 2022 7 1216
Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered - on a head-lice comb 2 Eugene Nov 2022 Nov 2022 8 1413
Did Ancient Humans Use Echolocation? 5 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 6 1404
Book Review: A Psychologist Plumbs the Cultural Roots of Emotion 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 975
Neanderthals: how a carnivore diet may have led to their demise 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 4 1029
Ancient peoples in South America had both Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA -- and we have no clue how it 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 11 1496
Two Elko Residents Sentenced To Prison For Graffiti At Sacred White River Narrows Petroglyph Site 14 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 20 2697
Archaeologists discover nearly 3,000-year-old rock carvings in ancient city in Iraq 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 9 1003
ANCIENT WATER SYSTEM UNCOVERED AT ROMAN STABIAE 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 2 913
100 years after Tutankhamun discovery new finds reveal more of ancient Egypt's secrets 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 24 1725

Anthropology Continued...

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Human exceptionalism imposes horrible costs on other animals 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 2 872
Anthropologists Find New Ways Female Bones Are Permanently Altered After Giving Birth 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 1089
The Woman Who Saved Native Song 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 7 825
Rare medieval script discovered on stone carved by Scotland's 'Painted People' 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 17 1471
Prehistoric DNA Reveals Two Groups Migrated to the U.K. After the Last Ice Age 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 32 1689
Analysis and Interpretation of a Unique Arabic Finger Ring from the Viking Age Town of Birka, Sweden 3 sl8 Oct 2022 Nov 2022 7 1509
Russian asylum seekers who took a boat to Alaska are Indigenous Siberians. 6 elleng Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 1693
Neanderthal family life revealed by ancient DNA from Siberian cave 7 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 15 1705
This Interactive Map Shows Which Indigenous Lands You Live On 28 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 39 5186
Drone photos reveal an early Mesopotamian city made of marsh islands 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 19 1893
Norwich timber henge burnt in Neolithic winter solstice excavated 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 8 1135
Neanderthals and modern humans may have copied each other's tools 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 6 1292
Superhighway of ancient human and animal footprints in England provides an 'amazing snapshot of the 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 19 1498
Neanderthal DNA might be linked to smoking, drinking, sleeping patterns in modern humans: study 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 1330
'Rare' Roman mosaic found in Rastan, Syria 9 Wicked Blue Oct 2022 Oct 2022 9 1910
Ancient Amazonians, unknown until recently, built towering mounds and reshaped the landscape 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 1903
What Do Stonehenge and Japanese Stone Circles Have in Common? 11 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 14 2120
Artificial Islands Around British Isles Were Used by Elites for Ancient Parties to Show Wealth and P 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Oct 2022 4 1785
Viking Women Were Power Weavers Whose Textiles Provided Vital Trade Across Europe, Researchers Say 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 13 1551
Study of Buddhist monks suggests celibacy can have surprising evolutionary advantages 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 1748
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