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Mexico City gold was Aztec loot Spanish abandoned as they fled in 1520, tests show 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1239
How Did Cahokian Farmers Feed North America's Largest Indigenous City? 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1288
Early humans revealed to have engineered optimized stone tools at Olduvai Gorge 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1140
Monkeys smashing nuts with stones hint at how human tool use evolved 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1200
Ancient rock art at Carnarvon Gorge destroyed after walkway explodes in bushfire 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1153
Early Humans May Have Scavenged More than They Hunted 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1112
Viking runestone may allude to extreme winter, study says 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1249
A handful of recent discoveries have shattered anthropologists' picture of where humans came from, a 14 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 27 3405
Chimps Have Been Caught Throwing Rocks at Trees And Yelling For No Apparent Reason 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1369
Discovery of ancient Egyptian beads sheds new light on historic trade routes 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1098
Seafaring South Americans began settling Greater Antilles 5,800 years ago 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1132
Demon Drawing Spotted on Assyrian Clay Tablet 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1355
Archaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta Warriors 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1363
Subtle Ancient Footprints Come to Light 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1055
Ancient copper smelting ruins discovered in SW China 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1024
Divers to retrieve Bronze Age artefacts from Swiss lake 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 943
Chimpanzees learn to crack nuts faster than humans 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 920
Researchers Discover Walruses Were Involved in the Mysterious Disappearance of Greenland's Norse Col 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1393
170,000-Year-Old Cooked Starch Found in South Africa 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1519
Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics? 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 1 1133
Tomb Containing Three Generations of Warrior Women Unearthed in Russia 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1063
Denisovan Research Reveals That Early Humans Were More Complex Than We Thought 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1112
Study reveals music's universal patterns across societies worldwide 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 934
Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology combines earthquake science with Indigenous knowledge 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 0 935
5 Big Archaeology Discoveries to Watch for in 2020 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 5 1352
Giant birds may help scientists finally solve the mystery of the Nazca lines 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 5 1416
This Cave Contains the Oldest Story Ever Recorded 15 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 42 4407
Surprise: Ancient Inuit Mummy Scans Reveal Possible Heart Disease 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 964
Archaeologists found the burial of Scythian Amazon with a head dress on Don 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 1628
The Irish Pigged Out on Pork in a 'Mammoth' Iron Age Building 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 13 1143

Anthropology Continued...

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Archaeologists Are Unearthing the Stories of the Past Faster Than Ever Before 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 1010
Kulub: Dig uncovers large Mayan palace in Mexico 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 1820
Te Lapa: Mysterious island lights that help Polynesians navigate 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 10 1647
What Is the Second Greatest Mystery in Anthropology? 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 5 1551
World's oldest figurative artwork uncovered 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 26 3391
Archaeologists in Greece find 3,500-year-old royal tombs 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 6 1317
Isotope analysis points to prisoners of war, 1,400 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 962
Fossil Whale Shows Transition Stage to Tail-Powered Swimming 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 860
Archaeologists Unearth Beads Made of Human Teeth in Ancient Turkish City 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 0 1151
Scientists discover ancient gum and recover human DNA: 1 Laffy Kat Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 1059
What ancient homes looked like, from the Egyptians to the Aztecs 4 mfcorey1 Dec 2019 Dec 2019 22 2869
Neolithic chewing gum helps recreate image of ancient Dane 0 Eugene Dec 2019 Dec 2019 8 1207
Small-scale atlatl artifacts suggest children were taught how to use them 3 Jim__ Dec 2019 Dec 2019 7 1303
Buried Christian (and Pagan) Basilica Discovered in Ethiopia's 'Lost Kingdom' of Aksum 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 7 1020
Photos: Carvings Depict Maya Ballplayers in Action 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 4 1145
Painting in the Americas before European colonization 8 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 42 4999
Like Neanderthals, early modern humans used their teeth as tools 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 1511
Time to ditch the harmful myth of the 'noble' hunter-gatherer 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 8 1194
Bones of ape living 12m years ago point to genesis of upright walking 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 5 1517
Unique sled dogs helped the inuit thrive in the North American Arctic 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Dec 2019 2 1112
Most Notable Royal Inbreeding Throughout History and the Craziness that Ensued 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1594
Archaeologists tie ancient bones to a revolt chronicled on the Rosetta Stone 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 10 1147
Warrior woman: Ella Al-Shamahi on the female Viking fighters who held their own on the battlefield 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1107
How Dogs and People Ended Up Ruling the World 5 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1455
Cave lion figurine made of woolly mammoth tusk found at Denisova Cave 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 24 2070
Ancient Armenian Female Warrior Suffered Hatchet Wounds And Arrow Blow Before Death 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 12 1741
Painstaking clean-up of Scottish Viking hoard unlocks new secrets 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 14 1247
The mystery of Harappan script: An enigma from the ancient world 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1209
Two-Horned 'Rook' Might Be the Oldest Chess Piece on Earth 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 6 1209
300,000 years ago, nine human species lived on Earth. Did homo sapiens exterminate the others? 12 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 18 2642

Anthropology Continued...

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Greece's Naxos Island May Have Been Inhabited 200,000 Years Ago 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 21 2117
Universality and diversity in human song 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1216
Jewelry made from HUMAN TEETH found in the ruins of 9000-year-old Turkish city, 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1029
Physicists Just Created the Most Detailed Simulation of the Universe in History 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 10 1423
Before We Find Aliens, Humans Need to Figure Ourselves Out, Anthropologist Says 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1366
Japan team finds 143 stunning new images in Nazca Lines of Peru 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 15 1388
The technology of enchantment 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1096
Archaeologists find ancient site older than Machu Picchu 11 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 38 5325
Bolivia, before the Spanish invasion, had "floating gardens," too, like Mexico. 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 1 1327
'Stone age seafarers' depicted in newly discovered rock art in Sweden 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 24 2735
The Reinvention of Humanity by Charles King review - a revolution in anthropology 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1166
Centuries-Old 'Witch Marks' in Hidden Cave Can Finally Be Seen ... in 3D 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 13 1467
Mexican mammoth trap provides first evidence of prehistoric hunting pits 3 Eugene Nov 2019 Nov 2019 11 1536
Drone-mounted lasers reveal ancient settlement off Florida coast 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 12 1253
Meet Erika the Red: Viking women were warriors too, say scientists 5 Eugene Nov 2019 Nov 2019 12 1859
Drone images provide new insights into lost Bolivian civilisation - video 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 1 1008
Laser scanning reveals 'lost' ancient Mexican city 'had as many buildings as Manhattan' 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 3 1011
Archaeologists Uncover 17th-Century Mexican Tunnel Decorated With Mysterious Aztec Carvings 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1310
Hoard of golden treasure stumbled upon by metal detectorist revealed to be most important Anglo-Saxo 2 Eugene Nov 2019 Nov 2019 13 1370
New scientific evidence proves Naxos was inhabited 200,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Nov 2019 8 1255
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