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Chichen Itza: Archaeologists discover scoreboard for ancient Maya ball game 4 Wicked Blue Apr 2023 Apr 2023 8 1972
Ancient Europeans Took Hallucinogenic Drugs 3,000 Years Ago 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 14 961
New Evidence Found for Stone Age Children, Thought Lost to Time 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 31 3015
Clues to the Lives of North America's First Inhabitants Are Hidden Underwater 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 10 1893
Gruesome cache of severed hands (ancient Egypt) - Ars Technica 2 BootinUp Apr 2023 Apr 2023 9 1447
Severed hands unearthed at ancient Egyptian site may have been battle trophies 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1271
A major UCLA study says that at least 65 species of animals laugh 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 12 1694
Polish-Armenian team discovers 'Golden tomb' dating back 3,200 years 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 3 1130
Funeral service for victims of inhumane and racist research 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 3 842
The wild psychedelic origins of indigenous mystical rites -- as revealed by archaeology 9 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Apr 2023 16 2273
Archaeologists Uncover First Direct Evidence of Drug Use From the Bronze Age 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 10 2548
Benin bronzes made from brass mined in west Germany, study finds 4 Eugene Apr 2023 Apr 2023 6 1237
Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old dwelling site of Hopewell Native Americans in Ohio 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 9 1402
ANCIENT RUNES EXPLAINED (AND HOW THEY INFLUENCED THE LORD OF THE RINGS) 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 12 1319
'Evil eye' jewelry that was used to protect a young girl 1,800 years ago unveiled in Israel 3 Wicked Blue Apr 2023 Apr 2023 4 2143
Ancient people lived among ruins too. What did they make of them? 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 11 1534
Clues to the Lives of North America's First Inhabitants Are Hidden Underwater 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 6 1193
Indigenous people of the American West used 'sacred' horses a half-century earlier than previously t 8 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Apr 2023 10 1952
World History: Resisting the De-Africanizing of Ancient Egypt - Pursuing Its Paradigms of Excellence 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 4 1046
Medieval Swahilis and Persians paired up 1,000 years ago in East Africa, ancient DNA reveals 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 8 1409
Archaeologists to find lost underwater civilization with magnetic fields 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 6 995
1,000-year-old brick tomb discovered in China is decorated with lions, sea anemones and 'guardian sp 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 10 1746
Face of Egyptian man who died 35,000 years ago, brought to life by scientists 5 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 16 1672
Bones kept by former eugenics institute buried in Berlin 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1165
Polish-Armenian team discovers 'Golden tomb' dating back 3,200 years 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1162
To save Hainan gibbons, Earth's rarest primate, experts roll out the big tech 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 8 1511
Beneath an Old Fireplace, Evidence of the Spirituality of the Enslaved 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1124
What did 70,000 Neanderthal food taste like 5 cally Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 1392
1,600-Year Old Demon-Slaying Mega Sword Unearthed in Japan 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 9 1610
Hiker Accidentally Discovers Ancient Roman Shrine To Mountain Gods In The Alps 6 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 33 2728

Anthropology Continued...

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Have we got Ancient Egypt's mummies all wrong? 2 Wicked Blue Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1418
Biblical city yields unusual case of 3,500-year-old head surgery 3 Jilly_in_VA Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1501
A 3 Million-Year-Old Discovery May Rewrite the History of Intelligent Life on Earth 10 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 52 3629
Dizzy apes provide clues on human need for mind altering experiences 11 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 16 2036
CASTRO DE BARONA 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 986
Bronze Age craftspeople tempered steel more than 1,000 years before the Romans did it 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 13 1420
New Discovery Shows Viking Religion of Thor and Odin Even Older Than Thought 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 9 1258
Dutch historian finds medieval treasure using metal detector 8 Wicked Blue Mar 2023 Mar 2023 10 1556
Bronze Age ice skates with bone blades discovered in China 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1558
Unknown lineage of ice age Europeans discovered in genetic study 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 14 1496
Scientists identify corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza using cosmic rays 2 Wicked Blue Mar 2023 Mar 2023 13 1802
Carvings on Australia's boab trees reveal a people's lost history 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 11 1112
Archaeologists have discovered sandstone blocks belonging to a pharaoh's temple covered with hierogl 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 15 1568
Pavlopetri - The Oldest Sunken City In The World 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 11 994
A colonial explorer stole Aboriginal spears in 1770. Centuries later, they'll finally return to Aust 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 1596
Our ancestors rode horses as early as 3,000BC: Researchers discover Bronze Age skeletons with 'horse 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 8 1208
Ancient Roman 'spike defenses' made famous by Julius Caesar found in Germany 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Mar 2023 9 1405
500,000-Year-Old Signs of Extinct Human Species Found in Poland Cave 2 Warpy Feb 2023 Mar 2023 20 1473
New Moai statue that 'deified ancestors' found on Easter Island 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Mar 2023 9 1309
Scientists may have solved an old Puebloan mystery by strapping giant logs to their foreheads 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 8 1458
Ramsgate archaeologist discovers 3000 year old Bronze Age toddler's shoe - possibly oldest found in 12 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 29 2872
4,500-year-old Sumerian temple dedicated to mighty thunder god discovered in Iraq 8 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 9 1461
Anthropologist Believes An Ancient Human Species May Have Been Sighted On Flores Island 7 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 40 3236
The rock art of Tassili n'Ajjer is mysterious; Lydia Ourahmane's wordless film of the drawings is hy 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 1378
Flowery Funerals? The Controversial Neanderthal Found In An Iraqi Cave 6 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 11 1327
A major archaeological discovery was made in Florida. Was it kept 'under wraps'? 22 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 93 8263
Archeologists in China 'burst into laughter' after unearthing a 2,200-year-old flush toilet 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 14 1702
Experts: Shetland's little horses arrived on the Vikings' long ships 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 17 1141
Book of Revelation's vision of the apocalypse inspired by pagan curses, researcher claims 11 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 14 2260
Rather than being peaceful, ancient hunter-gatherers engaged in violent warfare 14 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 9 2176

Anthropology Continued...

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Discovery of 'superhighways' suggests early Mayan civilization was more advanced than previously tho 0 Wicked Blue Feb 2023 Feb 2023 13 1405
Archaeology is rooted in racism and colonialism, say scientists. Here's how we rewrite 'everyone's h 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 15 2292
5,000-Year-Old Tavern With Food Still Inside Discovered in Iraq 10 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 56 4165
Here are 3 people-animal collaborations besides dolphins and Brazilians 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 1622
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 801
Saudi Arabia unveils face of ancient Nabataean woman 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 19 1733
THE CENTURIES-OLD ROMAN CITY FOUND BENEATH THE SURFACE OF LUXOR, EGYPT 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 30 2087
13,900-YEAR-OLD SPEAR TIP FOUND EMBEDDED IN MASTODON REMAINS 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 24 1553
Second mysterious dodecahedron found in Flanders 27 Judi Lynn Jan 2023 Feb 2023 61 5552
Neanderthals Dined on Crab 90,000 Years Ago 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 11 1207
Massive, 1.2 million-year-old tool workshop in Ethiopia made by 'clever' group of unknown human rela 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 9 1438
Seven-Foot Sword Unearthed From 1,600-Year-Old Burial Mound in Japan 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 4 1030
Neanderthals Hunted Giant Elephants Much Larger Than The Ones Today 5 Warpy Feb 2023 Feb 2023 6 1463
Site Of Ancient Egyptian "Great Revolt", Recorded On Rosetta Stone, Finally Discovered 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 9 1564
Side-Eye May Be More Common Among Primates Than We Realized 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 6 1080
THE OLDEST PAINTINGS EVER FOUND ON EARTH WERE NOT MADE BY HUMANS -- RESEARCH 17 Judi Lynn Jan 2023 Feb 2023 40 4464
The return of the spirit horse to Canada 5 Wicked Blue Jan 2023 Jan 2023 12 1667
Egypt archaeology: Gold-covered mummy among latest discoveries 0 Wicked Blue Jan 2023 Jan 2023 9 1348
Ground penetrating radar helps locate graves of First Nations children. 4 wnylib Jan 2023 Jan 2023 11 1933
See the Face of a Neolithic Man Who Lived in Jericho 9,500 Years Ago 17 Judi Lynn Jan 2023 Jan 2023 36 3472
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