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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 5 445
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 15 459
Drought uncovers 40 ancient tombs in Iraq 0 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Aug 31 13 500
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 8 341
Dried Lake Reveals New Statue on Easter Island 1 Judi Lynn Aug 30 Aug 30 28 904
Underfloor Heating System Discovered in 1,700-Year-Old Roman Bath 1 Judi Lynn Aug 25 Aug 25 18 1224
Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold--not the tropics 6 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 25 20 1470
Urban civilization rose in Southern Mesopotamia on the back of tides 2 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 6 376
New Evidence Suggests Humans May Have Used Bows and Arrows Earlier Than Expected 3 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 14 529
Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from 4 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 23 760
Humans Aren't as Special as We Once Thought 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 23 900
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 12 382
Outrage over plans to house battery megasite next to ancient rock art 1 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 7 376
Canadian Archaeologists Excavate Homestead of Black Rancher John Ware 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 9 369
Stone Age Farmers Settled Near Dortmund Airport 7,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 4 335
70,000-Year-Old Paleolithic Neanderthal Workshop Found 3 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 56 1627
3,500-Year-Old Opal Workshop and Rare Lithophones Unearthed in Vietnam 1 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 12 442
Archaeologists discover 'miracle' in ancient Egyptian tomb 0 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 18 1523
Isotope ratios provide a window into prehistoric diets 0 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 18 8 400
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 18 759
Stunning Tattoos Discovered on Siberian Mummy From 2,000 Years Ago 1 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 7 530
Some Early Hominins Evolved to Walk Upright While Still Living in Trees 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 15 517
Our Ancient Ancestors Loved Eating Grasses, and It Eventually Transformed Their Teeth 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 10 548
Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 22 740
Why Is The Great Rift Valley So Important In Our Understanding Of Human Evolution? 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 11 460
Prehistoric Humans Began Eating Tubers 700,000 Years Before Our Teeth Evolved To Do So 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 370
Were Humans in Thailand Getting High Off Betel Nuts 4,000 Years Ago? 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 5 367
Archaeologists battle the tide to save Orkney's ancient secrets 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 392
Archaeologists have found 'doorway to the afterlife' in ancient Egypt discovery 2 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 30 1136
Rare 5,000-Year-Old Neolithic Monument in Northern England Granted Protected Status 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 369

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 2020
Ancient canoe replica tests Paleolithic migration theory 3 Reader Rabbit Jul 30 Jul 30 8 573
Newly Deciphered Cuneiform Tablet Contains Unknown Sumerian Myth 14 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 27 1159
Precious finger traces from First Nations ancestors revealed in a glittering mountain cave in Australia 1 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 10 510
Ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs reemerge on Oahu's shores after years of being hidden 1 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 18 606
Archaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empire 2 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 49 1764
Before Rome, Before Greece: Anatolia's Oldest Glass Revealed in Hittite Bklkale 1 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 14 558
12,000-Year-Old Grid-Plan Structures and Water Channel Discovered at ayn Mound 0 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 6 510
Horrifying evidence of ancient humans cannibalising children emerges as toddler's remains excavated 0 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 6 588
Secret underground tunnels discovered in ruins of 4,300-year-old Chinese city 0 Judi Lynn Jul 29 Jul 29 3 480
Mysterious ancient pyramids known as 'Giant's Graves' have been discovered in Europe 2 Judi Lynn Jul 24 Jul 24 35 1353
3,500-Year-Old Rice Discovery Marks Longest Early Ocean Journey 2 Judi Lynn Jul 24 Jul 24 22 1003
1st-ever Denisovan skull identified thanks to DNA analysis 0 muriel_volestrangler Jul 21 Jul 21 16 603
Europe's oldest lake settlement uncovered in Albania 1 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 9 515
Lost tomb of Egyptian 'wizard doctor' reveals amazing evidence of ancient knowledge 1 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 13 811
Ancient rituals revealed: 6,000-year-old complex found in Trkiye 0 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 9 613
Skara Brae: The Scottish village older than the Pyramids 1 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 16 750
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 9 582
Humans Felt The Effects of Weird Space Weather 41,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 3 573
Indigenous rangers join WA's Burrup Peninsula underwater heritage survey 0 Judi Lynn Jul 19 Jul 19 1 396
This Ancient City May Have Been Ruled by Women, DNA Reveals 3 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 18 21 783
Scientists Find Aztec 'Death Whistles' do Weird Things to the Listeners' Brains 5 Reader Rabbit Jul 9 Jul 14 15 961
Lost Babylonian Hymn Deciphered 0 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 10 676
Archeologists uncover evidence of massive 6,000-year-old timber hall in Scotland 0 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 11 730
Researchers Sequence Whole Genome of Ancient Egyptian 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 6 10 610
Iliad in ancient greek pronunciation (substack link) 0 BootinUp Jul 6 Jul 6 3 555
Textile archaeology 4 BootinUp Jul 5 Jul 5 9 790
Neanderthals Operated "Fat Factories" 125,000 Years Ago 9 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 52 2227
5,000 year-old ancient Egyptian genome reveals links to an ancient civilisation 2 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 10 747
Archaeologists discover mysterious mummies in Chinese desert 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 11 866

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 11 996
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 15 674
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 14 728
Rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools found in China reveal diet secrets of early humans 3 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 10 815
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 4 676
Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 0 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 9 568
300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools "Made By Denisovans" Discovered In China 1 Judi Lynn Jul 4 Jul 4 19 753
Long-Lost Nile City Unearthed Beneath Egypt By Declan Gallagher Men's Journal Updated 0 Judi Lynn Jul 4 Jul 4 7 706
Zanzibar's baobab trees used to be a valued part of society - drone images help prove it 1 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 19 825
Archaeologists discover what could be world's oldest boomerang in Europe 4 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 5 886
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 11 782
Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed 27 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 19 67 3817
Runes found in Canadian wilderness baffle archaeologists 24 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 98 4545
This Is The Oldest Kingdom In The World 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 39 1585
Were Poland's first rulers actually from Scotland? 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 826
'Very rare' Viking grave uncovered in Denmark by accident 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 20 999
Arrowheads unearthed at Becin ancient site 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 886
Ancient DNA reveals new clues about the incredible journey of dogs in the Americas 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 851
DNA confirmed a Pueblo tribe's ties to Chaco Canyon 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 794
Ice Age cave find upends what we know about Australia's first people 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 14 842
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