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Raiding for women in the pre-Hispanic Southwest?
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Nov 10, 2006 |
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An important new archaeological study from the December issue of Current Anthropology is the first to document interregional movement of women in the pre-Hispanic Southwest. Using an analysis of grave sites, ...
Embryo Fossils Reveal Animal Complexity 10 Million Years Before Cambrian Explosion
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Oct 12, 2006 |
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Fossilized embryos predating the Cambrian Explosion by 10 million years provide evidence that early animals had already begun to adopt some of the structures and processes seen in today's embryos, say researchers from Indiana ...
New details of first major urban battle emerge along with clues about civilization’s origins
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Jan 16, 2007 |
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New details in the tragic end of one of the world’s earliest cities as well as clues about how urban life may have begun there were revealed in a recent excavation in northeastern Syria that was conducted by ...
Greek mystery may have been solved
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Jun 08, 2006 |
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Scientists say they may have solved the puzzle produced by the 1900 discovery off Greece of a bronze mechanism created in 80 B.C.
More human-Neandertal mixing evidence uncovered
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Nov 09, 2006 |
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A re-examination of ancient human bones from Romania reveals more evidence that humans and Neandertals interbred.
Revising and re-sizing history: New work shows Ohio site to be an ancient water works, not a fort
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Sep 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The site known as Miami Fort is no fort at all, and it is also much larger than previously believed – so large, in fact, that its berms stretch to almost six kilometers in length, making it ...
Earliest evidence for modern human behavior found in South African cave
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Oct 17, 2007 |
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Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, ...
Recovering from a mass extinction
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Jan 18, 2008 |
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[B]The full recovery of ecological systems, following the most devastating extinction event of all time, took at least 30 million years, according to new research from the University of Bristol[/B] The ful ...
Aussie scientists discover oldest proof of live birth
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May 28, 2008 |
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Australian scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of live birth on the planet, thanks to a fossil fish from Western Australia with a well-preserved embryo inside the body cavity.
Earliest evidence of modern humans in Europe discovered
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Jan 12, 2007 |
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Modern humans who first arose in Africa had moved into Europe as far back as about 45,000 years ago, according to a new study by an international research team led by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the ...
Archaeologists explore Peruvian mystery
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May 22, 2008 |
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Indiana Jones may be flying over the Nazca Lines in Peru in his latest Hollywood adventure, but two British archaeologists have been investigating the enigmatic desert drawings for several years.
Researcher Hopes to Find Hidden Tomb of Genghis Khan Using Non-Invasive Technologies
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Oct 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- According to legend, Genghis Khan lies buried somewhere beneath the dusty steppe of Northeastern Mongolia, entombed in a spot so secretive that anyone who made the mistake of encountering ...
Definitive Evidence Found of a Swimming Dinosaur
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May 24, 2007 |
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An extraordinary underwater trackway with 12 consecutive prints provides the most compelling evidence to-date that some dinosaurs were swimmers. The 15-meter-long trackway, located in La Virgen del Campo track ...
Archaeologist uncover possible medieval mosque in Sicily
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Jul 30, 2007 |
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Earlier this summer, while standing in an archaeological pit adjacent to an ancient hilltop castle in west-central Sicily, Northern Illinois University graduate student Bill Balco could literally reach out ...
No Hobbits in this Shire
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Aug 21, 2006 |
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The skeletal remains found in a cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, reported in 2004, do not represent a new species as then claimed but are some of the ancestors of modern human pygmies who live on the ...
