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Earliest human hand bone unearthed in Africa
Discovery shows many features we take for granted emerged nearly 2 million years ago, much earlier than thought
Anthropology
Source: CBSNews
Posted on: Wednesday, Aug 19, 2015, 12:04pm
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Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know?
“It’s me!” they’d say, and they’d leave a sign. Leave it on the cave wall. Maybe as a …
Anthropology
Source: National Geographic
Posted on: Wednesday, Aug 19, 2015, 12:04pm
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Archeologist Believes He's Found Egyptian Queen Nefertiti's Tomb
Nicholas Reeves, a residential scholar at the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, tells Renee Montagne his hypothesis is based on studying laser scans of King Tutankhamun's tomb.
Archaeology
Source: NPR
Posted on: Wednesday, Aug 12, 2015, 9:46am
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Ancient Romanian jawbone sheds light on Neanderthal interbreeding
You may not know it, but you probably have some Neanderthal in you. For people around the world, except sub-Saharan Africans, about 1 to 3 percent of their DNA comes from Neanderthals, our close cousins who disappeared roughly 39,000 years ago.
Anthropology
Source: Reuters
Posted on: Tuesday, Jun 23, 2015, 9:26am
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DNA analysis reignites fierce debate over fate of 9,000-year-old skeleton
Genome sequencing indicates Kennewick Man is Native American, reopening the bitter battle over whether he should be reburied or studied
Anthropology
Source: TheGuardian
Posted on: Friday, Jun 19, 2015, 9:12am
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Is It Ethical to Leave Uncontacted Tribes Alone?
Contact means dangers for both sides‚ but lack of contact does too
Anthropology
Source: TIME Magazine
Posted on: Thursday, Jun 04, 2015, 5:57pm
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Newfound human ancestor may have lived alongside Lucy
Australopithecus deyiremeda, which lived about 3.4 million yeas ago, suggests our ancestors were more diverse than we thought
Anthropology
Source: CBSNews
Posted on: Thursday, May 28, 2015, 8:05am
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Red Lady cave burial reveals Stone Age secrets
Some 19,000 years ago, a woman was coated in red ochre and buried in a cave in northern Spain. What do her remains say about Paleolithic life in western Europe?
Anthropology
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Thursday, Mar 19, 2015, 7:50am
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Cervantes remains found in Madrid convent, investigators believe
MADRID (Reuters) - Investigators said on Tuesday they believe remains found under a Madrid convent include those of Miguel de Cervantes, the author of "Don Quixote" and considered the father of the modern novel.
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Source: Reuters
Posted on: Tuesday, Mar 17, 2015, 9:28am
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Jaw Fossil In Ethiopia Likely Oldest Ever Found In Human Line
The 2.8 million-year-old bone may mark the first human branch in the primate family tree. It wasn't just a bigger brain that marked the shift, scientists say. It was also big changes in the mouth.
Anthropology
Source: NPR
Posted on: Thursday, Mar 05, 2015, 9:05am
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Stone Age Britons Were Eating Wheat 2,000 Years Before They Farmed It
Scientists have recovered cultivated wheat DNA from an 8,000-year-old submerged site off the British coast. The finding suggests hunter-gatherers were trading for the grain long before they grew it.
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Source: NPR
Posted on: Friday, Feb 27, 2015, 8:19am
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Neanderthals May Have Used Tools, Making Them Smarter Than We Thought
A multipurpose bone tool dating back to before the Stone Age was discovered in France
Anthropology
Source: TIME Magazine
Posted on: Thursday, Jan 15, 2015, 7:36am
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Rome's military women have been hiding in plain sight
Women were banned from Roman military life – so how come six are sculpted on one of the most-studied triumphal monuments in the world?
Anthropology
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Thursday, Jan 15, 2015, 7:36am
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Poison Hath Been This Italian Mummy's Untimely End
A lethal helping of foxglove seems to have triggered the downfall of a warlord of Verona
Anthropology
Source: Smithsonian
Posted on: Thursday, Jan 15, 2015, 7:36am
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Israeli cave offers clues about when humans mastered fire
Burnt flints indicate our ancestors regularly harnessed fire 350,000 years ago
Anthropology
Source: Science
Posted on: Friday, Dec 12, 2014, 11:28am
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Greenpeace sorry for Nazca stunt
Activists apologise for any "moral offence" that Greenpeace has caused, after a publicity stunt on the ancient Nazca lines in Peru.
Anthropology
Source: BBC News
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 11, 2014, 7:59am
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Gladiator Gatorade? Ancient Athletes Had A Recovery Drink, Too
Gladiators guzzled a drink made from plant ash to help their bodies recover after a hard day of sword fighting, according to Roman accounts. New tests of old bones back up that idea.
Anthropology
Source: NPR
Posted on: Tuesday, Oct 28, 2014, 8:15am
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Old, cold and bold: Ice Age people dwelled high in Peru's Andes
In a bleak, treeless landscape high in the southern Peruvian Andes, bands of intrepid Ice Age people hunkered down in rudimentary dwellings and withstood frigid weather, thin air and other hardships.
Anthropology
Source: Reuters
Posted on: Friday, Oct 24, 2014, 8:16am
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Easter Island's ancient inhabitants weren't so lonely after all
They lived on a remote dot of land in the middle of the Pacific, 2,300 miles (3,700 km) west of South America and 1,100 miles (1,770 km) from the closest island, erecting huge stone figures that still stare enigmatically from the hillsides.
Anthropology
Source: Reuters
Posted on: Friday, Oct 24, 2014, 8:16am
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Regular Guy From Boston Decides to Map the City’s Entire History
A veteran EMT and ambulance driver in Boston, Ed McCarthy is in a great position to understand his hometown spatially. But he’s also a history geek, and while constantly driving around the city’s neighborhoods, he loves recognizing the streets, buildings and other locales from the history books he so often buries his nose in.
Anthropology
Source: Wired
Posted on: Friday, Oct 24, 2014, 8:16am
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Drought exposes once-submerged Oregon town to archaeological dig
Record drought on the U.S. West Coast has exposed the ruins of an Oregon hamlet once submerged under the waters of a man-made reservoir, allowing a rare opportunity for an archaeological excavation, a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation official said on Thursday.
Anthropology
Source: Reuters
Posted on: Friday, Oct 10, 2014, 8:28am
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Indonesian Cave Paintings As Old As Europe's Ancient Art
Figures found on the walls of a prehistoric cave in Indonesia are at least 35,400 years old or more, scientists say. That might mean the earliest art developed independently in different regions.
Anthropology
Source: NPR
Posted on: Thursday, Oct 09, 2014, 9:15am
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The Moral Dilemma We Face in the Age of Humans
Humans are proficient problem solvers—but so far that trait has come at a cost. Can our species remain resiliant without destroying the world?
Anthropology
Source: Smithsonian
Posted on: Wednesday, Oct 08, 2014, 9:01am
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Rogue winds swept humans to last uninhabited islands
Shifting wind patterns could solve the mystery of how Polynesians colonised the most remote islands in the world
Anthropology
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Tuesday, Sep 30, 2014, 10:28am
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Ancient Egyptian wore extensions for stylish locks
Archaeologists got to the root of an ancient hairstyle when they unearthed a 3,300-year-old body with 70 hair extensions
Anthropology
Source: CBSNews
Posted on: Friday, Sep 19, 2014, 8:10am
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It's not a small world after all: world population will soar
Contrary to some earlier projections, the world's population will soar through the end of the 21st century thanks largely to sub-Saharan Africa's higher-than-expected birth rates, United Nations and other population experts said on Thursday.
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Source: Reuters
Posted on: Friday, Sep 19, 2014, 8:10am
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Were Neanderthals artists?
Study of engravings in Gibraltar cave could be final nail in the coffin of hypothesis that Neanderthals were cognitively inferior to modern humans
Anthropology
Source: CBSNews
Posted on: Tuesday, Sep 02, 2014, 8:21am
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The Lost Hobbits of the Eastern Arctic
Scientists never understood what became of the Paleo-Eskimos who once peopled the north. Now they know—and there's new reason to miss them
Anthropology
Source: TIME Magazine
Posted on: Friday, Aug 29, 2014, 8:33am
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What Bronze Age Wine Snobs Drank
There were some fine vintages 3,000 years ago, and a new study reveals how ancient mixologists made them finer still
Anthropology
Source: TIME Magazine
Posted on: Thursday, Aug 28, 2014, 8:35am
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Human exodus may have reached China 100,000 years ago
The standard story is that modern humans left Africa 60,000 years ago, but fossils and genetics hint that an earlier migration made it to China
Anthropology
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Friday, Aug 08, 2014, 10:24am
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