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World's first computer, the Antikythera Mechanism, 'started up' in 178 B.C., scientists claim 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2022 Apr 2022 25 1999
Ritual deposits from ancient feasts found at Palanque 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2022 Apr 2022 2 709
Indigenous Australian spears taken by James Cook to return to Sydney after 250 years 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2022 Apr 2022 1 762
Mungo Man: 42,000-year-old Aboriginal remains to be reburied 7 Sherman A1 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 3 1270
Anthropology Association Apologizes to Native Americans for the Field's Legacy of Harm 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Apr 2022 9 1244
Stone age brain surgery 7 wnylib Mar 2022 Mar 2022 3 1561
Digging Up the Rich Viking History of Britain 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 7 957
Decoding Linear A, the Writing System of the Ancient Minoans 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 8 937
Reconstructed Face Shows A Medieval Wanderer Found Buried In A Toilet 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 10 1322
The United Arab Emirates' Earliest Buildings Are 8,500 Years Old 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 6 797
The Anthropologist Who Has Spent 50 Years Protecting--and Learning From--Orangutans 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 16 1676
Unknown symbols written by the lost 'painted people' of Scotland unearthed 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 29 1748
Machu Picchu: Have we been giving Inca culture's most famous heartland the wrong name? 0 Eugene Mar 2022 Mar 2022 7 1296
Human life in Canada's Yukon Territory 24,000 years ago 7 wnylib Mar 2022 Mar 2022 5 1269
Indigenous forest management and fire control in California prior to European arrival 5 wnylib Mar 2022 Mar 2022 3 1234
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Sherman A1 Mar 2022 Mar 2022 4 752
This Beautiful Reconstruction of a Stone Age Woman Feels Almost Like Time Travel 3 Warpy Mar 2022 Mar 2022 23 1656
Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home 14 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 25 2507
Anthropologist discovers city older than Egyptian Pyramids in old satellite images 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 18 1188
Ancient seafarers built the Mediterranean's largest known sacred pool 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 4 872
The rise and fall of the Great Library of Alexandria 5 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 8 1288
Human-Shaped Sarcophagus Found Beneath Notre-Dame Cathedral 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 5 1051
'Significant' 500-Year-Old Hunting Bow Discovered in Alaskan Lake 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 3 851
Final resting place of up to 65 British kings revealed as discovery sheds light on King Arthur era 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 16 1269
World's oldest mummy found in Portugal 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 7 810
New Experiments Hint Human Language Likely Didn't Start With Grunts 4 Warpy Mar 2022 Mar 2022 5 1215
Ancient DNA helps reveal social changes in Africa 50,000 years ago that shaped the human story. 4 elleng Mar 2022 Mar 2022 7 1303
Archaeologists have uncovered two pre-Hispanic temples in the Tehuacn el Viejo archaeological zone 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 5 1008
WHAT PRE-COLONIZED MEXICO WAS REALLY LIKE FOR THE AZTECS 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 5 984
How Sitting Bull's Fight for Indigenous Land Rights Shaped the Creation of Yellowstone National Park 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 7 1010

Anthropology Continued...

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Researchers Decipher the Glyphs on a 1,300-Year-Old Frieze in Mexico 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 12 921
Ancient Mexican city endured for centuries without extremes in wealth and power 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 4 888
Controversial rock art may depict extinct giants of the ice age 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 9 1079
Acoustic remote sensing reveals sunken Roman city of Baia 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 14 1588
Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 4 1104
Old Stone Age culture discovered in China 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 7 1046
Native American shell ring villages may have been occupied then abandoned because of climate change 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 9 1028
Ground-breaking DNA study finds Vikings weren't all Scandinavian 8 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Mar 2022 11 1704
5,300-Year-Old Skull Offers Earliest Known Evidence of Ear Surgery 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 8 1231
Cahokia Mounds Releases Second Phase Of Popular Augmented Reality App 0 Sherman A1 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 4 1135
Archaeologists find a 9,000-year-old shrine in the desert in Jordan 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 11 1057
The Mysterious Origins of King Tutankhamen's Space Rock Dagger Just Got Clearer 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 23 1297
Neanderthal's Extinction May Be Caused By an Entirely Different Reason 9 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 26 2037
Pre-Inca archaeological site yields 8 child sacrificial victims 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 3 849
An Ornate, 5,000-Year-Old Stone Drum Is the U.K.'s Most Significant Prehistoric Art Find in a Centur 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 8 1021
2,000-Year-Old Buddhist Temple Unearthed in Pakistan 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 10 1046
The world's oldest pants stitched together cultures from across Asia 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 30 1680
Abu Dhabi unearths archaeological treasures dating back 8,500 years 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 19 1327
The Guardian view on Stonehenge: a dynamic monument - Editorial 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 4 873
Who were the Scythians? 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 10 1175
Astronauts spot an ancient heart-shaped oasis in Egypt just in time for Valentine's Day 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 14 1184
The Most Lavish Mesopotamian Tomb Ever Found Belongs to a Woman 8 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 22 1519
7 Roman inventions: Incredible feats of ancient technology 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 12 1231
Indigenous farmers are 'rematriating' centuries-old seeds to plant a movement 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 4 1366
Just Like Humans, Monkeys Observed Showing Signs of Choking Under Pressure 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 2 715
Comet impact may have triggered decline of Ohio's Hopewell people 1,600 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 6 810
Ancient chalk sculpture is 'most important prehistoric art' 0 Wicked Blue Feb 2022 Feb 2022 5 859
Lines written by 'naughty pupils' among 18,000 ancient pottery fragments found in Egypt 2 Wicked Blue Feb 2022 Feb 2022 7 1124
Tracing the History and Health Impacts of Skull Modification 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 1 943
Origins of West African dishes with leafy vegetables date back to 3,500 years 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 4 889

Anthropology Continued...

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Vertebra discovered in the Jordan Valley tells the story of prehistoric migration from Africa 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 6 912
Vikings' 'blood eagle' torture was horrific -- and may have actually happened 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Feb 2022 6 1150
Ancient helmets, temple ruins unearthed at dig in southern Italy 0 Sherman A1 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 10 928
Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 8 917
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 1 640
Did Eating Meat Make Us Human? Don't Be So Sure, New Study Says 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 6 1203
Research reveals new insights into ancient mound complex of Poverty Point 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 11 1014
2 giant sphinxes depicting King Tut's grandfather found at ancient Egyptian temple 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 10 833
'Every aspect of museums is affected by colonialism', say the Decolonise Cambridge Museums founders 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 3 933
A celebration for the archaeologist who broke new ground on ancient Scotland 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 7 873
Ancient powerbase of Lords of the Isles in Scotland was home to 'thriving community' 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 6 898
One of the largest-known Norse longhouses discovered near Viking ship burial 6 Judi Lynn Dec 2021 Jan 2022 9 1531
World's oldest drinking straws are 3 feet long and made of gold and silver 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 4 984
Iniskim Umaapi: Is this Canada's 'Stonehenge'? 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 19 1553
Saudi Arabia: Ancient tombs reveal 4,500 year-old highway network 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 19 1572
Trail of African bling reveals 50,000-year-old social network 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 11 1015
Archaeologists' discover 2,400-year-old town in Northamptonshire 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 8 1081
Ancient Andean leaders may have mixed hallucinogen with their beer 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 3 984
How Africa's prehistoric geniuses led a technological revolution 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2022 Jan 2022 9 1065
180 million years ago... 3 pbmus Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1177
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