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This Silly, Bug-Eyed Dwarf Deity Was Defender of 'Everything Good' 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 6 1664
Norway's Kon-Tiki museum to return thousands of Easter Island artefacts 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1298
Warm weather pushed Neanderthals into cannibalism 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1487
Archaeologists Find Bound Bodies Of Enslaved Africans In Portuguese Trash Dump 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1478
Widespread tool-using chimp culture discovered in Democratic Republic of Congo 1 milestogo Mar 2019 Mar 2019 11 1590
Exclusive: Aztec war sacrifices found in Mexico may point to elusive royal tomb 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 2385
Archaeological Geneticists Call Jack The Ripper DNA Study 'Unpublishable Nonsense' 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1509
Ancient Monkey Bone Tools Shake Up the Narrative of Early Human Migration to the Rain Forest 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1605
Death Mask of Pakal the Great 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 9 2508
Birds and Humans Are Depicted Together in This Rare Scene From 12,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1527
Holy fudge: soft foods helped humans form 'f' and 'v' sounds - study 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1505
Mary Rose crew might have included sailors of African heritage 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1388
Babylonian treasure seized at Heathrow to be returned to Iraq 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1635
Stone Age Cave Symbols May All Be Part of a Single Prehistoric Proto-Writing System 11 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 31 3892
Ancient civilization sacrificed more than 100 of their children to stop bad weather, say archaelogis 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 5 1391
'A big jump': People might have lived in Australia twice as long as we thought 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1676
Maya ritual cave 'untouched' for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists 5 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 15 2274
History's largest child sacrifice was a response to devastating weather, archaeologists say 1 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1732
Mystery of human skull defleshed and boiled by ancient farmers 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1592
Researchers uncover evidence of Indigenous aquaculture 3,500 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1326
This Is How Different Cultures Grieve With Food 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 7 1768
Searching for the ships Cortés burned before destroying the Aztecs 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1260
Ming Dynasty Skeletons Reveal Secrets of Foot-Binding 13 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Mar 2019 8 4427
A 2,000-year-old tattoo needle still has ink on the tip 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 5 1375
Human Generosity Study Shows Altruistic Societies Better Survive Hard Times 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 12 1585
Students build woven pavilion to shade archaeologists in Peru's desert 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 5 1507
Inca Ritual Baths Fed by Waterfall Reveals More of Its Secrets 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1548
Did Bronze Age Europeans Keep Foxes As Pets? 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 8 1463
Researchers Reaffirm Remains in Viking Warrior Tomb Belonged to a Woman 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 24 2389
The ancient people in the high-latitude Arctic had well-developed trade 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1466

Anthropology Continued...

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Isotopes found in bones suggest Neanderthals were fresh meat eaters 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 4 1415
Archaeologists discover Incan tomb in Peru 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 27 3133
Skeletons of elite members of mysterious ancient civilisation found 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 12 2040
Skeleton of Teen Girl Found Buried Next to Mysterious Pyramid in Egypt 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 5 1521
Seven moral rules found all around the world 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 8 2149
Maya bones bring a lost civilization to life 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 8 1374
Prehistoric Sailors May Be Responsible for Stonehenge, Other Megaliths 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1624
Underwater Archaeologists Find Surprising Artifacts from Major Roman Naval Battle 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 12 1800
Siberian Cave Findings Shed Light on Extinct Human Species 5 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Feb 2019 11 2631
DNA reveals early mating between Asian herders and European farmers 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 5 1700
Indigenous Brazilians And Environmental Protection - Analysis 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1289
Mighty Warrior's Medieval Sword Pulled Triumphantly ... from Denmark Sewer 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 9 2008
A taste for fat may have made us human, says study 4 Kali Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1833
The Lost World of the Maya is Finally Emerging From the Jungle 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 8 1801
You Can Now Look At The Faces Of Some Of Britain's Earliest Inhabitants 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 16 2087
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 1520
MEET THE HOMO ERECTUS: WHAT OUR ANCESTORS ATE, LOOKED LIKE, AND MORE 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 7 1400
How seeing snakes in the grass helped primates to evolve 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1293
Vikings brought leprosy to Ireland 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2019 Feb 2019 5 1437
Archaeologists Have Discovered a Lost Metropolis in South Africa 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 11 1988
Neanderthals and Denisovans Shared a Siberian Cave for Thousands of Years, New Research Suggests 0 jpak Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1382
Clever, tech-savvy Neanderthals 'were long-distance killers' 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 8 2027
How capable were early hominins of crossing water? 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 6 1605
Artificial Intelligence identifies unknown human ancestor 6 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 26 3305
Easter Island statues: mystery behind their location revealed 6 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 18 3008
11,500-year-old animal bones in Jordan suggest early dogs helped humans hunt 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1381
Human's ancient relative found in China has modern dental growth 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1301
New Heiltsuk website explores 6,000-year-old village 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1683
Rare Ancient Peruvian Death Mask Found Off Florida Coast 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 8 1540
Humans burdened cattle 6000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1323

Anthropology Continued...

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3,000-Year-Old Tomb of King Tut Finally Restored 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 18 3519
The ancient tombs of Colombia's Tierradentro 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1551
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 2162
How ancient DNA may rewrite prehistory in India 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 11 2214
What happened to the ancient Mayan civilization? 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2018 Jan 2019 8 3223
Did the Vikings Think the Gods Were Watching Them? 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1603
Damage to Ancient Carving of Egyptian Couple Was Meant to Hurt Them in the Afterlife 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1482
Long-Hidden 'Pyramid' Found in Indonesia Was Likely an Ancient Temple 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 7 1797
The Gauls really did embalm the severed heads of enemies, research shows 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 5 1523
A medieval woman's work left blue pigment on her teeth 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1743
Archaeologist debunks the myth of "the nearly naked Bushmen" 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1890
Sino-Egyptian joint archaeological team works to crack password to ancient Egypt 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1474
Decapitated bodies found in Roman cemetery in Great Whelnetham 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1567
Seagrass Safeguards Human History 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1367
Skulls With 'Surfer's Ear' Suggest Ancient Pearl Divers in Panama 5 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 15 2729
Egypt uncovers intact 4,400-year-old pharaonic tomb near Giza pyramids 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 5 1832
Archaeologists Identify Oldest Known Human Burial in Lower Central America 3 left-of-center2012 Jan 2019 Jan 2019 9 2115
Giant "Ice House" discovered under the streets of Marylebone 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2018 Jan 2019 9 2959
Mexican experts discover first temple of god depicted as skinned human corpse 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 6 1784
'Little Foot' endocast reveals a small brain combining ape-like and human-like features 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2018 Dec 2018 7 2116
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