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Haniwa Dancers: 1,500-year-old ghostly figurines thought to hold the souls of the dead 1 Judi Lynn Sep 7 Sep 7 5 443
Ancient Humans Used Indigo Plant 34,000 Years Ago: First Evidence of Non-Food Plant Processing Found in Georgia 2 Judi Lynn Sep 3 Sep 4 15 455
Drought uncovers 40 ancient tombs in Iraq 0 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Aug 31 13 498
Catalhoyuk Unearths New Secrets: Social Change and the "House of the Dead" in One of the World's Oldest Cities 0 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Aug 31 8 337
Dried Lake Reveals New Statue on Easter Island 1 Judi Lynn Aug 30 Aug 30 28 901
Underfloor Heating System Discovered in 1,700-Year-Old Roman Bath 1 Judi Lynn Aug 25 Aug 25 18 1222
Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold--not the tropics 6 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 25 20 1466
Urban civilization rose in Southern Mesopotamia on the back of tides 2 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 6 374
New Evidence Suggests Humans May Have Used Bows and Arrows Earlier Than Expected 3 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 14 527
Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from 4 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 23 742
Humans Aren't as Special as We Once Thought 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 23 898
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 12 379
Outrage over plans to house battery megasite next to ancient rock art 1 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 7 374
Canadian Archaeologists Excavate Homestead of Black Rancher John Ware 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 9 367
Stone Age Farmers Settled Near Dortmund Airport 7,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 4 333
70,000-Year-Old Paleolithic Neanderthal Workshop Found 3 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 56 1624
3,500-Year-Old Opal Workshop and Rare Lithophones Unearthed in Vietnam 1 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 12 440
Archaeologists discover 'miracle' in ancient Egyptian tomb 0 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 18 1521
Isotope ratios provide a window into prehistoric diets 0 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 8 398
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 18 756
Stunning Tattoos Discovered on Siberian Mummy From 2,000 Years Ago 1 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 7 527
Some Early Hominins Evolved to Walk Upright While Still Living in Trees 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 15 514
Our Ancient Ancestors Loved Eating Grasses, and It Eventually Transformed Their Teeth 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 10 546
Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 22 738
Why Is The Great Rift Valley So Important In Our Understanding Of Human Evolution? 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 11 458
Prehistoric Humans Began Eating Tubers 700,000 Years Before Our Teeth Evolved To Do So 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 368
Were Humans in Thailand Getting High Off Betel Nuts 4,000 Years Ago? 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 5 365
Archaeologists battle the tide to save Orkney's ancient secrets 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 390
Archaeologists have found 'doorway to the afterlife' in ancient Egypt discovery 2 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 30 1134
Rare 5,000-Year-Old Neolithic Monument in Northern England Granted Protected Status 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 367

Anthropology Continued...

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Hear What the World's Oldest Song From Over 3,400 Years Sounds Like 10 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Aug 2 43 2018
Ancient canoe replica tests Paleolithic migration theory 3 Reader Rabbit Jul 30 Jul 30 8 571
Newly Deciphered Cuneiform Tablet Contains Unknown Sumerian Myth 14 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 27 1157
Precious finger traces from First Nations ancestors revealed in a glittering mountain cave in Australia 1 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 10 508
Ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs reemerge on Oahu's shores after years of being hidden 1 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 18 604
Archaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empire 2 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 49 1762
Before Rome, Before Greece: Anatolia's Oldest Glass Revealed in Hittite Bklkale 1 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 14 556
12,000-Year-Old Grid-Plan Structures and Water Channel Discovered at ayn Mound 0 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 6 508
Horrifying evidence of ancient humans cannibalising children emerges as toddler's remains excavated 0 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 6 586
Secret underground tunnels discovered in ruins of 4,300-year-old Chinese city 0 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 3 478
Mysterious ancient pyramids known as 'Giant's Graves' have been discovered in Europe 2 Judi Lynn Jul 24 Jul 24 35 1351
3,500-Year-Old Rice Discovery Marks Longest Early Ocean Journey 2 Judi Lynn Jul 24 Jul 24 22 1001
1st-ever Denisovan skull identified thanks to DNA analysis 0 muriel_volestrangler Jul 21 Jul 21 16 601
Europe's oldest lake settlement uncovered in Albania 1 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 9 511
Lost tomb of Egyptian 'wizard doctor' reveals amazing evidence of ancient knowledge 1 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 13 808
Ancient rituals revealed: 6,000-year-old complex found in Trkiye 0 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 9 610
Skara Brae: The Scottish village older than the Pyramids 1 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 16 746
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 9 579
Humans Felt The Effects of Weird Space Weather 41,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 3 571
Indigenous rangers join WA's Burrup Peninsula underwater heritage survey 0 Judi Lynn Jul 19 Jul 19 1 393
This Ancient City May Have Been Ruled by Women, DNA Reveals 3 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 18 21 781
Scientists Find Aztec 'Death Whistles' do Weird Things to the Listeners' Brains 5 Reader Rabbit Jul 9 Jul 14 15 959
Lost Babylonian Hymn Deciphered 0 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 10 673
Archeologists uncover evidence of massive 6,000-year-old timber hall in Scotland 0 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 11 728
Researchers Sequence Whole Genome of Ancient Egyptian 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 6 10 608
Iliad in ancient greek pronunciation (substack link) 0 BootinUp Jul 6 Jul 6 3 553
Textile archaeology 4 BootinUp Jul 5 Jul 5 9 787
Neanderthals Operated "Fat Factories" 125,000 Years Ago 9 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 52 2224
5,000 year-old ancient Egyptian genome reveals links to an ancient civilisation 2 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 10 745
Archaeologists discover mysterious mummies in Chinese desert 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 11 864

Anthropology Continued...

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What Our World May Have Looked Like If Neanderthals Hadn't Died Off 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 11 994
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 15 672
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 14 725
Rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools found in China reveal diet secrets of early humans 3 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 10 813
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 4 674
Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 0 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 9 566
300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools "Made By Denisovans" Discovered In China 1 Judi Lynn Jul 4 Jul 4 19 751
Long-Lost Nile City Unearthed Beneath Egypt By Declan Gallagher Men's Journal Updated 0 Judi Lynn Jul 4 Jul 4 7 704
Zanzibar's baobab trees used to be a valued part of society - drone images help prove it 1 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 19 822
Archaeologists discover what could be world's oldest boomerang in Europe 4 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 5 882
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 11 779
Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed 27 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 19 67 3809
Runes found in Canadian wilderness baffle archaeologists 24 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 98 4543
This Is The Oldest Kingdom In The World 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 39 1580
Were Poland's first rulers actually from Scotland? 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 824
'Very rare' Viking grave uncovered in Denmark by accident 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 20 997
Arrowheads unearthed at Becin ancient site 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 884
Ancient DNA reveals new clues about the incredible journey of dogs in the Americas 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 848
DNA confirmed a Pueblo tribe's ties to Chaco Canyon 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 792
Ice Age cave find upends what we know about Australia's first people 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 14 840
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