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Early Evidence Of Cannabis Smoking Found On Chinese Artifacts 2 left-of-center2012 Jun 2019 Jun 2019 1 1306
Inka History in Knots (Book Review) 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 1312
Archeologists Are Too Colonial, Says Anthropologist 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 1517
Bertha Parker, the first Native American archaeologist, taught herself how to excavate a site 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 5 1457
Ancient "Birdman" Skeleton Buried In Costume Unearthed In Siberia 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 7 1478
Humans May Have Been Crafting Stone Tools for 2.6 Million Years 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 1158
Ancient DNA Reveals Complex Story of Human Migration Between Siberia and North America 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 1203
Did the Maya Really Sacrifice Their Ballgame Players? 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 1415
Greek Farmer Discovers 3,400-Year-Old Tomb Hidden Just Below His Olive Grove 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2019 Jun 2019 8 1404
Chew on this: Ancient Scandinavians tasted gum 10,000 years ago 4 Judi Lynn May 2019 Jun 2019 5 1642
14,000-year-old cave footprints provide snapshot of Stone Age family day out 4 Soph0571 May 2019 Jun 2019 38 4187
Bonobo mothers meddle in their sons' sex lives, making them 3 times more likely to father children 4 milestogo May 2019 May 2019 3 1625
Analysis of Ancient DNA Suggests Finnish and Estonian Languages Came From Siberia 0 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 5 1429
2,300-Year-Old Bark Shield Showcases a Previously Unknown Iron Age Technology 0 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 6 1231
Large Mound in Russia Reveals 2,500-Year-Old Skeletons of Elite Nomadic Tribesmen...And a Horse Head 4 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 7 1443
King Tut Wore Ancient, Meteor-Blasted Yellow Glass 0 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 11 1151
Ancient tomb discovered in Egypt dating back 4,500 years 4 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 6 1443
'It would destroy it': new international airport for Machu Picchu sparks outrage 7 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 14 2466
Humans Crawled Through a Cave 14,000 Years Ago. We Can Still See Their Perfectly Preserved Footprint 2 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 19 1613
Uncovering a 5000-year-old family tragedy 5 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 10 1959
Stellaris 'Ancient Relics' expansion lets you investigate precursor civilizations 0 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 0 1073
160 ancient tombs discovered in central China 1 Judi Lynn May 2019 May 2019 4 1042
Britain's equivalent to Tutankhamun found in Southend-On-Sea 2 nitpicker May 2019 May 2019 4 1173
Missing part of Stonehenge returned 60 years on 0 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 5 1165
Ancient hallucinogens found in 1,000-year-old shamanic pouch 1 Richard D May 2019 May 2019 9 1372
Biggest Denisovan fossil yet spills ancient human's secrets 0 jpak May 2019 May 2019 22 1333
Mummies Unwrapped exclusive: Ramy enters tomb filled with Cloud People skeletons 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1509
Footprint found in Chile is 'oldest' in Americas: scientists 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 11 1354
Archaeological discovery at the site of Pachacamac 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1199
Steady Supply Of Beer Kept Ancient Wari Empire Intact For 500 Years 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1237

Anthropology Continued...

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Knotted Strings And Chili Peppers Add Up To New Evidence For Taxation In The Inka Empire 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 999
Ancient Tomb of Mysterious Man Named Tjt Discovered in Egypt 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 6 1224
Dennis Stanford has passed. 5 bluedigger Apr 2019 Apr 2019 7 3164
Easter Island's famous moai statues slowly fading away 6 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 24 4216
Evolution of the human face points to a non-violent past 16 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 23 6070
Copper culture shapes ancient history 3 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1239
Cave Paintings Suggest Ancient Humans Understood the Stars Much Better Than We Thought 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 8 1355
Crusader armies were remarkably genetically diverse, study finds 1 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1288
Evidence of rabbits in UK in Roman times, say academics 1 nitpicker Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1086
Water Pipeline Workers Stumble Across Dozens of Iron Age Skeletons 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1082
Researchers interpret Cherokee inscriptions in Alabama cave 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 6 1410
Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of builders 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 15 1223
Depression-Era Workers Found Strange Fossilized Beasts in 'Texas Serengeti' 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 12 1385
Neolithic dog reveals tales behind Orkney's monuments 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 20 1456
You Are What You Eat: Neanderthals, Woolly Mammoths Apparently Shared Genetic Traits 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1067
Dragons: A Brief History of the Mythical, Fire-Breathing Beasts 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1228
The First Cave Art from the Balkans May Date Back 30,000 Years 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 964
New discovery throws light on mystery of pyramids' construction 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 32 1635
MYSTERY 8,000-YEAR-OLD ABANDONED STRUCTURE DISCOVERED WITH DECLASSIFIED IMAGES FROM COLD WAR SPY PLA 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 29 1985
The Human Brain Has been Getting Smaller Since the Stone Age 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1331
Norway Will Repatriate Thousands of Artifacts Taken From Easter Island 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1024
Gorillas Appear to Grieve for Their Dead 1 milestogo Apr 2019 Apr 2019 10 1260
Faces of medieval Scots reconstructed after remains found 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 23 1807
4,000-YEAR-OLD ROCK ART DEPICTING DANCING TRIBE CELEBRATING BIRTH DISCOVERED IN CHINA 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1290
Archaeologists discover 'exceptional' site at Lake Titicaca 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 7 1164
"Fast Food" Establishment Discovered in Pompeii 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 4 1446
Polish Academics Protest Abuse of Term 'Anthropology' in Antisemitic Newspaper's Headline 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 965
Etruscan tomb in Corsica may yield secrets on civilization's decline 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1028
What Can Fingerprints Tell Us About Ancient Artisans? 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 866
Researchers find ancient Maya farms in Mexican wetlands 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1119

Anthropology Continued...

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This Silly, Bug-Eyed Dwarf Deity Was Defender of 'Everything Good' 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 6 1209
Norway's Kon-Tiki museum to return thousands of Easter Island artefacts 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1018
Warm weather pushed Neanderthals into cannibalism 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1142
Archaeologists Find Bound Bodies Of Enslaved Africans In Portuguese Trash Dump 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1159
Widespread tool-using chimp culture discovered in Democratic Republic of Congo 1 milestogo Mar 2019 Mar 2019 11 1271
Exclusive: Aztec war sacrifices found in Mexico may point to elusive royal tomb 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 2105
Archaeological Geneticists Call Jack The Ripper DNA Study 'Unpublishable Nonsense' 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1226
Ancient Monkey Bone Tools Shake Up the Narrative of Early Human Migration to the Rain Forest 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1283
Death Mask of Pakal the Great 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 9 2059
Birds and Humans Are Depicted Together in This Rare Scene From 12,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1276
Holy fudge: soft foods helped humans form 'f' and 'v' sounds - study 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1231
Mary Rose crew might have included sailors of African heritage 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1023
Babylonian treasure seized at Heathrow to be returned to Iraq 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1342
Stone Age Cave Symbols May All Be Part of a Single Prehistoric Proto-Writing System 11 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 31 2854
Ancient civilization sacrificed more than 100 of their children to stop bad weather, say archaelogis 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 5 1132
'A big jump': People might have lived in Australia twice as long as we thought 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1282
Maya ritual cave 'untouched' for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists 5 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 15 1730
History's largest child sacrifice was a response to devastating weather, archaeologists say 1 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1353
Mystery of human skull defleshed and boiled by ancient farmers 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1326
Researchers uncover evidence of Indigenous aquaculture 3,500 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1076
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