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SOMEONE IN MEXICO HAD AN ANCIENT MAYAN KINGDOM BURIED IN THEIR BACKYARD 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2020 Mar 2020 5 1471
Scottish storms unearth 1,500-year-old Viking-era cemetery 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2020 Mar 2020 13 1365
Archaeologists to dig up secrets of Roman amphitheatre in Kent 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2020 Mar 2020 4 1198
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Guatemala find reveals early Mayan writing 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2020 Mar 2020 3 1217
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Humans domesticated horses - new tech could help archaeologists figure out where and when 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2020 Mar 2020 3 1275
Maya warrior queen may have built the longest 'white road' in the Yucatan 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2020 Mar 2020 6 1219
'Astounding new finds' suggest ancient empire may be hiding in plain sight 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2020 Mar 2020 40 4437
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Humans get some of their knack for killing each other from the primate family tree, a new study says 3 BigmanPigman Feb 2020 Feb 2020 7 1689
Archaeologists use laser tech to reveal secrets of 100-km Maya road 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 3 1126
Rice fossils show Cambodians' rice production dates back early Neolithic period 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 1 1026
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Archaeologists discover lost city that may have conquered the kingdom of Midas 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 9 1125
World's oldest art under threat from cement mining in Indonesia 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 4 1017
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Ancient Humans in the Sahara Desert Were Feasting on Fish 10,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 10 1540
Ancient engraving of warrior with 'elaborate hairstyle' and 'pronounced butt' discovered in Scotland 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 4 1380
Mass grave shows how Black Death devastated the countryside 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 14 1361
Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 5 1013
What Mongolia's Dairy Farmers Have to Teach Us About the Hidden History of Microbes 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 12 1404
The earliest farmers of northwest China exploited grain-fed pheasants not chickens 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 8 1140
Researchers revise timing of Easter island's societal collapse 6 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 11 1873
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Scientists find evidence of 'ghost population' of ancient humans 5 Eugene Feb 2020 Feb 2020 11 1530
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ANCIENT HUMAN IQ CAN'T BE MEASURED IN THE BRAIN, BUT SOMEWHERE ELSE -- STUDY 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 15 1378
How Ancient Poop Debunked Myth of Native American Lost Civilization 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Feb 2020 14 1508
Museum of Natural History: Human Population 1 RestoreAmerica2020 Feb 2020 Feb 2020 7 1379

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2,000-Year-Old Monolith Engravings Recorded in Peru 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 6 1225
Neanderthals may have been shallow free divers, suggests a new study 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 6 1149
Ancient Cave Filled With 10,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings Accidentally Discovered By Egyptologists In 8 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 25 2783
Mysterious Footprints Indicate Neanderthals Climbed a Volcano Right After It Erupted 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 30 2494
Australian bushfires may have damaged thousands of Aboriginal sites 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1184
Ancient Vesuvius eruption turned victim's brain to a glassy rock in rare, poorly understood process 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 5 1115
Anthropologists confirm existence of specialized sheep-hunting camp in prehistoric Lebanon 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1107
Mysterious 'Ghost Tribe' discovered as scientists recover Stone Age DNA 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 12 1307
14th-Century Steam Bath Found in Mexico City 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 1 1129
50 Graves of Slaves Who Toiled at a Roman Villa Unearthed in England 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1588
Peru's Pachacamac Idol Analyzed 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 0 1324
How Did Humans Come to the Americas? 2 left-of-center2012 Jan 2020 Jan 2020 5 1191
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Oldest Temple in the world: Over 11,000 years old Gbekli Tepe in Turkey shows the artistic genius o 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2019 Jan 2020 12 1713
Easter Island's Monoliths Made the Crops Grow 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 25 3338
Mexico City gold was Aztec loot Spanish abandoned as they fled in 1520, tests show 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1198
How Did Cahokian Farmers Feed North America's Largest Indigenous City? 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1209
Early humans revealed to have engineered optimized stone tools at Olduvai Gorge 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1101
Monkeys smashing nuts with stones hint at how human tool use evolved 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1126
Ancient rock art at Carnarvon Gorge destroyed after walkway explodes in bushfire 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1100
Early Humans May Have Scavenged More than They Hunted 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1057
Viking runestone may allude to extreme winter, study says 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1209
A handful of recent discoveries have shattered anthropologists' picture of where humans came from, a 14 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 27 3202
Chimps Have Been Caught Throwing Rocks at Trees And Yelling For No Apparent Reason 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1289
Discovery of ancient Egyptian beads sheds new light on historic trade routes 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 1049
Seafaring South Americans began settling Greater Antilles 5,800 years ago 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1079
Demon Drawing Spotted on Assyrian Clay Tablet 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1278
Archaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta Warriors 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1325
Subtle Ancient Footprints Come to Light 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1014
Ancient copper smelting ruins discovered in SW China 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 972

Anthropology Continued...

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Divers to retrieve Bronze Age artefacts from Swiss lake 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 905
Chimpanzees learn to crack nuts faster than humans 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 872
Researchers Discover Walruses Were Involved in the Mysterious Disappearance of Greenland's Norse Col 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1334
170,000-Year-Old Cooked Starch Found in South Africa 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1453
Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics? 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 1 1077
Tomb Containing Three Generations of Warrior Women Unearthed in Russia 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1026
Denisovan Research Reveals That Early Humans Were More Complex Than We Thought 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1057
Study reveals music's universal patterns across societies worldwide 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 895
Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology combines earthquake science with Indigenous knowledge 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 0 895
5 Big Archaeology Discoveries to Watch for in 2020 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 5 1276
Giant birds may help scientists finally solve the mystery of the Nazca lines 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 5 1346
This Cave Contains the Oldest Story Ever Recorded 15 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 42 4178
Surprise: Ancient Inuit Mummy Scans Reveal Possible Heart Disease 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 2 904
Archaeologists found the burial of Scythian Amazon with a head dress on Don 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 1563
The Irish Pigged Out on Pork in a 'Mammoth' Iron Age Building 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 13 1101
Archaeologists Are Unearthing the Stories of the Past Faster Than Ever Before 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 949
Kulub: Dig uncovers large Mayan palace in Mexico 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 9 1727
Te Lapa: Mysterious island lights that help Polynesians navigate 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 10 1583
What Is the Second Greatest Mystery in Anthropology? 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 5 1476
World's oldest figurative artwork uncovered 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2019 Dec 2019 26 3297
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