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Ancient Humans Used Indigo Plant 34,000 Years Ago: First Evidence of Non-Food Plant Processing Found in Georgia 2 Judi Lynn Wednesday Thursday 14 362

Drought uncovers 40 ancient tombs in Iraq 0 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 12 435

Catalhoyuk Unearths New Secrets: Social Change and the "House of the Dead" in One of the World's Oldest Cities 0 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 8 279

Dried Lake Reveals New Statue on Easter Island 1 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 28 819

Underfloor Heating System Discovered in 1,700-Year-Old Roman Bath 1 Judi Lynn Aug 25 Aug 25 18 1160

Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold--not the tropics 6 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 25 20 1374

Urban civilization rose in Southern Mesopotamia on the back of tides 2 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 6 320

New Evidence Suggests Humans May Have Used Bows and Arrows Earlier Than Expected 3 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 14 460

Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from 4 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 23 676

Humans Aren't as Special as We Once Thought 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 23 837

Ancient shells and pottery reveal the vast 3,200-years-old trade routes of Oceania's Indigenous peoples 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 12 330

Outrage over plans to house battery megasite next to ancient rock art 1 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 7 314

Canadian Archaeologists Excavate Homestead of Black Rancher John Ware 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 9 309

Stone Age Farmers Settled Near Dortmund Airport 7,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 3 277

70,000-Year-Old Paleolithic Neanderthal Workshop Found 3 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 56 1566

3,500-Year-Old Opal Workshop and Rare Lithophones Unearthed in Vietnam 1 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 12 389

Archaeologists discover 'miracle' in ancient Egyptian tomb 0 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 18 1467

Isotope ratios provide a window into prehistoric diets 0 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 8 349

See 'hyperrealistic' reconstructions of 2 Stone Age sisters who worked in brutal mine in the Czech Republic 6,000 years 2 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 5 18 694

Stunning Tattoos Discovered on Siberian Mummy From 2,000 Years Ago 1 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 7 479

Some Early Hominins Evolved to Walk Upright While Still Living in Trees 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 15 466

Our Ancient Ancestors Loved Eating Grasses, and It Eventually Transformed Their Teeth 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 10 494

Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 22 663

Why Is The Great Rift Valley So Important In Our Understanding Of Human Evolution? 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 11 405

Prehistoric Humans Began Eating Tubers 700,000 Years Before Our Teeth Evolved To Do So 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 320

Were Humans in Thailand Getting High Off Betel Nuts 4,000 Years Ago? 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 5 319

Archaeologists battle the tide to save Orkney's ancient secrets 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 343

Archaeologists have found 'doorway to the afterlife' in ancient Egypt discovery 2 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 30 1084

Rare 5,000-Year-Old Neolithic Monument in Northern England Granted Protected Status 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 317

Hear What the World's Oldest Song From Over 3,400 Years Sounds Like 10 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Aug 2 43 1921

Anthropology Continued...

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Ancient canoe replica tests Paleolithic migration theory 3 Reader Rabbit Jul 30 Jul 30 8 509

Newly Deciphered Cuneiform Tablet Contains Unknown Sumerian Myth 14 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 27 1078

Precious finger traces from First Nations ancestors revealed in a glittering mountain cave in Australia 1 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 10 456

Ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs reemerge on Oahu's shores after years of being hidden 1 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 18 552

Archaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empire 2 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 49 1701

Before Rome, Before Greece: Anatolia's Oldest Glass Revealed in Hittite Bklkale 1 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 14 505

12,000-Year-Old Grid-Plan Structures and Water Channel Discovered at ayn Mound 0 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 6 460

Horrifying evidence of ancient humans cannibalising children emerges as toddler's remains excavated 0 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 6 539

Secret underground tunnels discovered in ruins of 4,300-year-old Chinese city 0 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 3 428

Mysterious ancient pyramids known as 'Giant's Graves' have been discovered in Europe 2 Judi Lynn Jul 24 Jul 24 35 1301

3,500-Year-Old Rice Discovery Marks Longest Early Ocean Journey 2 Judi Lynn Jul 24 Jul 24 22 944

1st-ever Denisovan skull identified thanks to DNA analysis 0 muriel_volestrangler Jul 21 Jul 21 16 554

Europe's oldest lake settlement uncovered in Albania 1 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 9 457

Lost tomb of Egyptian 'wizard doctor' reveals amazing evidence of ancient knowledge 1 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 13 746

Ancient rituals revealed: 6,000-year-old complex found in Trkiye 0 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 9 561

Skara Brae: The Scottish village older than the Pyramids 1 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 16 692

The First-Ever Whole Genome of an Ancient Egyptian Reveals What Life Was Like 4,800 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 9 528

Humans Felt The Effects of Weird Space Weather 41,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 3 522

Indigenous rangers join WA's Burrup Peninsula underwater heritage survey 0 Judi Lynn Jul 19 Jul 19 1 345

This Ancient City May Have Been Ruled by Women, DNA Reveals 3 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 18 21 725

Scientists Find Aztec 'Death Whistles' do Weird Things to the Listeners' Brains 5 Reader Rabbit Jul 9 Jul 14 15 887

Lost Babylonian Hymn Deciphered 0 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 10 618

Archeologists uncover evidence of massive 6,000-year-old timber hall in Scotland 0 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 11 679

Researchers Sequence Whole Genome of Ancient Egyptian 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 6 10 556

Iliad in ancient greek pronunciation (substack link) 0 BootinUp Jul 6 Jul 6 3 504

Textile archaeology 4 BootinUp Jul 5 Jul 5 9 728

Neanderthals Operated "Fat Factories" 125,000 Years Ago 9 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 52 2157

5,000 year-old ancient Egyptian genome reveals links to an ancient civilisation 2 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 10 692

Archaeologists discover mysterious mummies in Chinese desert 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 11 814

What Our World May Have Looked Like If Neanderthals Hadn't Died Off 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 11 943

Anthropology Continued...

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Men traded wares - but women traded knowledge: what a new archaeological study tells us about PNG sea trade 0 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 15 607

Metallic door frame, said to be of Vijayanagar period, with sculptures of Lord Vishnu's dashavatara found at Perdoor in 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 14 665

Rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools found in China reveal diet secrets of early humans 3 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 10 760

Did the Romans bring lions to England to maul criminals and prisoners of war to death for gruesome entertainment? 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 4 621

Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 0 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 9 520

300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools "Made By Denisovans" Discovered In China 1 Judi Lynn Jul 4 Jul 4 19 699

Long-Lost Nile City Unearthed Beneath Egypt By Declan Gallagher Men's Journal Updated 0 Judi Lynn Jul 4 Jul 4 7 655

Zanzibar's baobab trees used to be a valued part of society - drone images help prove it 1 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 19 770

Archaeologists discover what could be world's oldest boomerang in Europe 4 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 5 819

80,000-year-old tools found in Sharjah's Jebel Faya reveal 210,000 years of human settlement 0 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 11 716

Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed 27 erronis Jun 18 Jun 19 67 3634

Runes found in Canadian wilderness baffle archaeologists 24 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 98 4404

This Is The Oldest Kingdom In The World 2 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 39 1517

Were Poland's first rulers actually from Scotland? 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 13 771

'Very rare' Viking grave uncovered in Denmark by accident 1 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 20 937

Arrowheads unearthed at Becin ancient site 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 13 815

Ancient DNA reveals new clues about the incredible journey of dogs in the Americas 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 11 791

DNA confirmed a Pueblo tribe's ties to Chaco Canyon 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 8 741

Ice Age cave find upends what we know about Australia's first people 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 14 776

Discovery of 2,000-Year-Old Massive Shoe Reveals the Goliath of Roman Warriors 10 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 16 15 1442

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