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Scottish storms unearth 1,500-year-old Viking-era cemetery 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2020 Mar 2020 13 1253
Archaeologists to dig up secrets of Roman amphitheatre in Kent 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2020 Mar 2020 4 1053
Student discovers 5,000-year-old sword hidden in Venetian monastery 5 Judi Lynn Mar 2020 Mar 2020 35 1960
Guatemala find reveals early Mayan writing 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2020 Mar 2020 3 1122
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Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 5 918
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The earliest farmers of northwest China exploited grain-fed pheasants not chickens 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 8 1017
Researchers revise timing of Easter island's societal collapse 6 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 11 1572
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How Ancient Poop Debunked Myth of Native American Lost Civilization 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Feb 2020 14 1360
Museum of Natural History: Human Population 1 RestoreAmerica2020 Feb 2020 Feb 2020 7 1249
2,000-Year-Old Monolith Engravings Recorded in Peru 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 6 1120
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Ancient Cave Filled With 10,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings Accidentally Discovered By Egyptologists In 8 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 25 2419
Mysterious Footprints Indicate Neanderthals Climbed a Volcano Right After It Erupted 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 30 2347
Australian bushfires may have damaged thousands of Aboriginal sites 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 1036
Ancient Vesuvius eruption turned victim's brain to a glassy rock in rare, poorly understood process 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 5 973
Anthropologists confirm existence of specialized sheep-hunting camp in prehistoric Lebanon 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 996
Mysterious 'Ghost Tribe' discovered as scientists recover Stone Age DNA 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 12 1190
14th-Century Steam Bath Found in Mexico City 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 1 1001
50 Graves of Slaves Who Toiled at a Roman Villa Unearthed in England 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 1472
Peru's Pachacamac Idol Analyzed 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 0 1244
How Did Humans Come to the Americas? 2 left-of-center2012 Jan 2020 Jan 2020 5 1088
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Early humans revealed to have engineered optimized stone tools at Olduvai Gorge 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1034
Monkeys smashing nuts with stones hint at how human tool use evolved 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 943
Ancient rock art at Carnarvon Gorge destroyed after walkway explodes in bushfire 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1014
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Anthropology Continued...

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A handful of recent discoveries have shattered anthropologists' picture of where humans came from, a 14 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 27 2607
Chimps Have Been Caught Throwing Rocks at Trees And Yelling For No Apparent Reason 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1149
Discovery of ancient Egyptian beads sheds new light on historic trade routes 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 932
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Archaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta Warriors 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 1190
Subtle Ancient Footprints Come to Light 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 2 935
Ancient copper smelting ruins discovered in SW China 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 885
Divers to retrieve Bronze Age artefacts from Swiss lake 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 831
Chimpanzees learn to crack nuts faster than humans 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 800
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170,000-Year-Old Cooked Starch Found in South Africa 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 7 1318
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Tomb Containing Three Generations of Warrior Women Unearthed in Russia 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 958
Denisovan Research Reveals That Early Humans Were More Complex Than We Thought 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 8 963
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Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology combines earthquake science with Indigenous knowledge 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2020 Jan 2020 0 820
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