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My Search for the Origins of Clothing
An archaeologist uses climate data and tailoring tools to trace the origins and evolution of Paleolithic clothing in colder climates.
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New mystery at Richard III burial site
First came the dramatic discovery of the long-lost remains of King Richard III. Now, there's the mystery of the coffin within the coffin.
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Oldest signs of Japanese using tools uncovered in Okinawa
Archaeologists have unearthed shell tools around 20,000 years old that could help clear up mysteries surrounding the ancestors of modern Japanese people, a museum said Feb. 15. The Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum said the shell tools--the first uncovered in Japan from the Paleolithic Age--were dug up at the Sakitari-do cave site in Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture, near the site where the country’s oldest whole skeletons were found.
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Ardipithecus ramidus: Study Links Ancient Hominid to Human Lineage
A new study confirms close relationship of Ardipithecus ramidus to the subsequent Australopithecus and humans.
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Everybody in Almost Every Language Says “Huh”? HUH?!
New research by Mark Dingemanse and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has uncovered a surprisingly important role for an interjection long dismissed as one of language’s second-class citizens: the humble huh?, a sort of voiced question mark slipped in when you don’t understand something. In fact, they’ve found, huh? is a “universal word,” the first studied by modern linguists.
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When Your Car Has that New-Car Smell, It's Luxurious. When Your House Does, It Can Kill You.
In the course of his research on the New Orleans trailer park culture that developed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Oxford anthropologist Nick Shapiro stumbled on something unexpected. At 250 square feet, the FEMA-issued mobile homes were scarcely fit to live in, but there was one thing about them that, for their occupants, represented the height of luxury: a scent evocative of the interior of a new car. This smell was also making them sick.
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1,500-year-old coffin excavated from grassland in China (with pics)
A 1,500-year-old coffin, excavated from grassland of Xilin Gol league, was opened at Xilin Gol league museum in Xilin Hot, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region on March 8th. The well-preserved coffin could date back to Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534). The identity of the tomb's owner is still unknown.
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Neanderthals were not less intelligent than modern humans, scientists find
Researchers say there is no evidence that modern humans' cognitive superiority led to demise of Neanderthals
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Were Ancient Humans Built for Boxing?
Males may have bigger bones and stronger jaws to better withstand getting hit in the face
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Low testosterone could be what made us civilized humans
A new study indicates that hormone changes might have made us more social.
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Genes show mysterious Paleo-Eskimos survived 4,000 years until sudden demise
New genetic research on ancient bones reveals that a prehistoric population of hunters migrated into the high Arctic of North America and Greenland and survived for 4,000 years in almost complete isolation from the rest of humanity. Then, about 700 years ago, they vanished — either victims of genocide or simply out-competed by a new population of hunters with more advanced technology, the research indicates.
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Did Florida boys school officials send family a casket filled with wood?
For almost 90 years, the casket lay beneath the earth, Thomas Curry's family believing the teen who died too young rested in peace there, in an unmarked plot with his great-grandparents. Curry was a charge of Marianna, Florida's Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a now infamous juvenile detention facility that closed in 2011 for budgetary reasons, capping a chilling, 111-year legacy of brutality.
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The Hunter, The Hoaxer, And The Battle Over Bigfoot
Jeffrey Meldrum is a respected anthropologist risking his reputation to prove Sasquatch is real; Rick Dyer is a self-described “entertainer” unapologetically capitalizing off it. Their rivalry represents two sides of the fractious but booming subculture.
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Alberta fishermen land rare fossil of never-before-seen dinosaur
Two Alberta fishermen have hooked the catch of a lifetime: a never-before-seen, mostly intact dinosaur fossil believed to be more than 80 million years old. Researchers at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology say the ancient remains appear to be from a new species of hadrosaur, a duck-billed, plant-eating class of dinosaur characterized by an abnormally-shaped, elongated skull.
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Growing up in Africa
Photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher spent over 30 years taking photos of ceremonies, rituals and the daily life of African tribal peoples. These extraordinary images tell the story of the Dinka tribe in Sudan.
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How hunting with wolves helped humans outsmart the Neanderthals
Dogs are humanity’s oldest friends, renowned for their loyalty and abilities to guard, hunt and chase. But modern humans may owe even more to them than we previously realised. We may have to thank them for helping us eradicate our caveman rivals, the Neanderthals. According to a leading US anthropologist, early dogs, bred from wolves, played a critical role in the modern human’s takeover of Europe 40,000 years ago when we vanquished the Neanderthal locals.
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DNA documents ancient mass migration
DNA analysis has revealed evidence for a massive migration into the heartland of Europe 4,500 years ago.
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'First human' discovered in Ethiopia
Scientists have unearthed the jawbone of what they claim is one of the very first humans. The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older than researchers thought that our kind first emerged.
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Baboon bone found in famous Lucy skeleton
One of the back bones from the important early human comes from a baboon – a surprising discovery for such a well-studied primate fossil
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Monkeys Provide Clues to How Tool Use Developed
Monkeys do not exhibit human dexterity with tools, according to Madhur Mangalam of the University of Georgia, one of the authors of a recent study of how capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack open palm nuts. “Monkeys are working as blacksmiths,” he said, “They’re not working as goldsmiths.”
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