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The Hero in the Labyrinth The Pioneering Work of Joseph Campbell 7 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 16 937
This 2,000-Year-Old Inscription Changes Our Understanding of the Basque Language 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 11 897
Child Who Lived 8,000 Years Ago May Have Been Buried With a Wolf 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 14 958
THE COUNTRY OF SCOTLAND HAS OVER 400 DIFFERENT WAYS TO TALK ABOUT SNOW 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 6 813
Good intentions and missed opportunities: The educational experiences of young refugees 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 590
Jacques Ellul And The Idols Of Transhumanism - Analysis 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 1 669
Auckland Museum returns four taonga to Aboriginal people 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 604
Soon After Dinosaur Decimation, Our Primate Ancestors Began Pouncing on Prey 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 4 686
ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXPLORE MYSTERIOUS UNDERWATER CAIRNS AT LAKE CONSTANCE 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 7 1173
Cave yields Neanderthals find Fossilised bone fragments of a father, teenage daughter and other rela 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 11 859
Vast tunnel found beneath ancient Egyptian temple 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 18 1027
Cool leaf! Study records chimp showing off object in human-like way 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 1002
Fossilized Fish Teeth Could Be Earliest Evidence of Cooking 2 Eugene Nov 2022 Nov 2022 7 976
Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered - on a head-lice comb 2 Eugene Nov 2022 Nov 2022 8 1219
Did Ancient Humans Use Echolocation? 5 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 6 1077
Book Review: A Psychologist Plumbs the Cultural Roots of Emotion 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 780
Neanderthals: how a carnivore diet may have led to their demise 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 4 840
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 1239
Two Elko Residents Sentenced To Prison For Graffiti At Sacred White River Narrows Petroglyph Site 14 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 20 1985
Archaeologists discover nearly 3,000-year-old rock carvings in ancient city in Iraq 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 9 788
ANCIENT WATER SYSTEM UNCOVERED AT ROMAN STABIAE 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 2 688
100 years after Tutankhamun discovery new finds reveal more of ancient Egypt's secrets 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 24 1492
Human exceptionalism imposes horrible costs on other animals 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 2 674
Anthropologists Find New Ways Female Bones Are Permanently Altered After Giving Birth 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 899
The Woman Who Saved Native Song 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 7 674
Rare medieval script discovered on stone carved by Scotland's 'Painted People' 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 17 1246
Prehistoric DNA Reveals Two Groups Migrated to the U.K. After the Last Ice Age 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 32 1489
Analysis and Interpretation of a Unique Arabic Finger Ring from the Viking Age Town of Birka, Sweden 3 sl8 Oct 2022 Nov 2022 7 1305
Russian asylum seekers who took a boat to Alaska are Indigenous Siberians. 6 elleng Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 1279
Neanderthal family life revealed by ancient DNA from Siberian cave 7 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 15 1344

Anthropology Continued...

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This Interactive Map Shows Which Indigenous Lands You Live On 28 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 39 4243
Drone photos reveal an early Mesopotamian city made of marsh islands 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 19 1651
Norwich timber henge burnt in Neolithic winter solstice excavated 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 8 937
Neanderthals and modern humans may have copied each other's tools 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 6 1132
Superhighway of ancient human and animal footprints in England provides an 'amazing snapshot of the 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 19 1327
Neanderthal DNA might be linked to smoking, drinking, sleeping patterns in modern humans: study 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 1143
'Rare' Roman mosaic found in Rastan, Syria 9 Wicked Blue Oct 2022 Oct 2022 9 1483
Ancient Amazonians, unknown until recently, built towering mounds and reshaped the landscape 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 1605
What Do Stonehenge and Japanese Stone Circles Have in Common? 11 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 14 1682
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 1528
Viking Women Were Power Weavers Whose Textiles Provided Vital Trade Across Europe, Researchers Say 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 13 1276
Study of Buddhist monks suggests celibacy can have surprising evolutionary advantages 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 1502
Beads show European trade in African interior used Indigenous routes 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 766
See the striking facial reconstruction of a Paleolithic woman who lived 31,000 years ago 9 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 44 4121
Artificial islands surrounding British Isles were used for ancient parties, archaeologists find 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 13 917
A second ancient canoe is found in Wisconsin -- this time tracing back to 1000 B.C. 8 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 Sep 2022 19 1970
Archaeologists Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Structure Older Than Stonehenge or Pyramids of Giza 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 14 1398
What's the world's oldest civilization? 10 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 32 2902
Can we talk about modern Social Anthropology here? 14 Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 1945
Brochs: The mysterious circular symbols of Scotland 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 26 1990
Indigenous Sea Gardens Fed Communities, Preserved Ecosystems 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 8 1032
Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 9 933
Chinese researchers discover world's earliest synthesized lead white cosmetics 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 1064
twitter thread: example of architecture from every single country 5 BootinUp Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 1241
Human Skin Didn't Always Fear The Sun, Not Until A Huge Change 10,000 Years Ago 6 Warpy Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 1949
World's Oldest Evidence of Surgical Amputation Lay Hidden For 31,000 Years 0 Warpy Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 1175
Indigenous Americans ruled democratically long before the U.S. did 5 DBoon Sep 2022 Sep 2022 12 1262
"Ancient Civilizations of North America" free on Amazon Prime until 9/30/22....... 13 Jade Fox Sep 2022 Sep 2022 13 2446
DNA STUDY SHEDS LIGHT ON 'MISSING LINK' IN BIRTH OF INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 10 elleng Sep 2022 Sep 2022 10 1815
RESEARCHERS DOCUMENT 1,000-YEAR-OLD PAINTINGS EXCAVATED IN SUDAN 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Sep 2022 5 939

Anthropology Continued...

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Vast paleogenetic study reveals insights on migration, farming and language development 1 elleng Sep 2022 Sep 2022 7 1207
Scientists Amazed to Find 1,400-Year-Old Folding Chair in Woman's Grave 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 15 1094
Who were the Vandals, the 'barbarians' who sacked Rome? 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 9 1045
Rival teams of male dolphins form the animal world's biggest social networks, long-running study fin 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 12 2426
Study: Vikings were not the first to settle the Faroe Islands 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 5 851
Bodies Found In Medieval Well Probably Victims Of An Anti-Semitic Massacre 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 6 875
Khufu branch of Nile River once flowed close enough to Giza to carry the stones needed to build the 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 1050
Scythian arrowheads and Bronze Age dwelling uncovered in Ukraine 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 3 694
The last person who touched this three-bladed arrowhead was a Viking 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 17 1408
Centuries-old tools reveal how the Chikasha people fought off conquistadors 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 6 906
Cornwall's ancient village with underground tunnels that nobody can explain 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 13 1176
Oldest human-made structure in the Americas is older than the Egyptian pyramids 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 13 1422
Creation of linguistic landscapes using ancient and contemporary Mayan writing 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 1001
Chief Justice overturns drilling approval at Aboriginal heritage site 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 13 1181
Traces of settlement dating back over 9,000 years discovered in Turkiye 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 7 1127
People Produced Beer in German Stonehenge Over 4,000 Years Ago 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 3 770
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 8 738
Glacier archaeologists find a 1300-year-old arrow in melting ice 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 31 1972
Map may prove 'Welsh Atlantis' rooted in fact, say academics 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 27 1832
'Spanish Stonehenge' dating back 7,000 years emerges as water levels recede 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 24 1864
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