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Man notices ancient human jawbone embedded in parents' tile floor
A Reddit user got the surprise of a lifetime when they noticed a human-like jawbone embedded in the new travertine flooring at their parents' house.
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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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Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts
Ancient and fragile papyrus samples are at risk of being damaged by fungi, but a wasabi-based treatment can disinfect them without damage
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We May Have Been Completely Wrong About The Origins of Syphilis in Europe
When Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and his Spanish troops returned to Europe from the Americas in the late 15th century, they notoriously brought back the deadly pathogen responsible for syphilis.
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The burials that could challenge historians' ideas about Anglo-Saxon gender
Skeletons found with items that don’t align with their estimated sex are usually excluded from research – but that assumes a 19th century view of gender.
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Did Australia's First Peoples domesticate dingoes? They certainly buried them with great care
There’s been a long-standing debate over whether dingoes started out wild or domesticated. One thing is clear – they had a close relationship with First Peoples.
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Giant Pyramid Buried in Indonesia Could Be The Oldest in The World
A giant underground pyramid hidden beneath a hillside in Indonesia far outdates Stonehenge or the Giza Pyramids and may come to rival the oldest megalithic structures ever built by human hands.
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Farmers or foragers? Pre-colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple
For a decade, debate has raged over Dark Emu’s account of Aboriginal agriculture. But ancient food production in Australia is more complex than labels like farming or hunter-gathering suggest.
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One of The Biggest Hunter-Gatherers Myths Is Finally Getting Debunked
The enduring idea that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is a relatively baseless assumption that is facing greater academic resistance than ever before.
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The Oldest Known Burial Site in The World Wasn't Made by Our Species
Paleontologists in South Africa said they have found the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behavior.
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How technology helped archaeologists dig deeper
Digital tools can help us understand ancient cities and the people who lived in them.
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Black Death Skeletons Unearthed by Crossrail Workers
Thirteen skeletons thought to be victims of the Black Death plague which swept Britain over 600 years ago have been dug up by workers on the £15 billion Crossrail project in London, archaeologists said Friday.
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ANCIENT EGYPT 2,400-Year-Old Myths of Mummy-Making Busted
Contrary to reports by famous Greek historian Herodotus, the ancient Egyptians probably didn't remove mummy guts using cedar oil enemas, new research on the reality of mummification suggests.
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Inside of a Dinosaur Bone
This specimen is from the Judith River Formation along the Milk River in southern Alberta. It is Campanian (Late Cretaceous) in age, which corresponds to about 80 million years old. It is an example of ideal preservation, and shows all the microstructural features typical of most fossil vertebrate bone. Little or no alteration of the hydroxyapatite appears to have occurred, and a significant amount of the pore space is not infilled with minerals and retains its "spongey" texture.
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Eosinopteryx feathered dinosaur offers clues on bird evolution
A new species of dinosaur found in NE China has added further evidence that feathers developed originally or uses other than flight.
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Australia's Stampeding Dinosaurs Take a Dip: Largely Tracks of Swimming Rather Than Running Animals
Queensland paleontologists have discovered that the world's only recorded dinosaur stampede is largely made up of the tracks of swimming rather than running animals.
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Australian Dinosaur Found To Have South American Heritage
Australia's links to South America have just gotten a bit closer, but not due to economic forces, rather fossil forces. University of Queensland palaeontologist Dr Steve Salisbury was part of an international team of palaeontologists from the US, Argentina and Australia that identified a fossil that had previously only been found in South America.
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Dinosaur shook tail feathers for mating show
University of Alberta researcher’s examination of fossilized dinosaur tail bones has led to a breakthrough finding: some feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage to attract mates, much like modern-day peacocks and turkeys.
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Unique Ancient Spider Attack Preserved in Amber
Researchers have found what they say is the only fossil ever discovered of a spider attack on prey caught in its web -- a 100 million-year-old snapshot of an engagement frozen in time.
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Chinese dinosaur embryo fossils are oldest found so far
With several of the embryos petrified at different stages of development, it offers a rare insight into exactly how dinosaurs developed inside eggs...
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