Anthropology
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Mystery Stone Age holes in England have archaeologists asking, 'What were these pits for?'Archaeologists in England have found up to 25 large pits dotting the countryside, but their purpose remains a mystery.
By Jennifer Nalewicki Published
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Lost Maya city discovered deep in the jungles of MexicoArchaeologists discovered a lost Maya city hidden in the jungles of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
By Jennifer Nalewicki Published
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See the face of 'Ava,' a Bronze Age woman who lived in Scotland 3,800 years agoResearchers created a 3D image of a Bronze Age woman who was likely part of Europe’s “Bell Beaker” culture.
By Jennifer Nalewicki Published
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Men hunt and women gather? Large analysis says the long-held idea is flat-out wrongScientists studying hunter-gatherer societies around the world discovered the stereotypes that men were hunters and women were gatherers was wrong.
By Jennifer Nalewicki Published
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See the face of the 'Hobbit,' an extinct human relativeA new facial approximation offers insight into one of humankind's extinct relatives, Homo floresiensis.
By Jennifer Nalewicki Published
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86,000-year-old human bone found in Laos cave hints at 'failed population' from prehistoryThe discovery of a skull and shin bone fragment in a cave in Laos pushes back the earliest known date of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia.
By Kristina Killgrove Published
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Massive, 1.2 million-year-old tool workshop in Ethiopia made by 'clever' group of unknown human relativesAn unknown group of hominins crafted more than 500 obsidian hand axes more than 1.2 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.
By Charles Q. Choi Published
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Stockpile of 2,000-year-old gemstones found in Roman bathhouse drainWhat caused a clog in this 2,000-year-old Roman bathhouse? A treasure trove of gemstones, that’s what.
By Jennifer Nalewicki Published
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Beneath a busy street in Jerusalem sits a 1,000-year-old moat with a secret handprintArchaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a massive moat beneath a busy roadway. But a handprint etched into the stone structure remains a mystery.
By Jennifer Nalewicki Published
