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From 15 June Fearsome Craftsmen - a touring exhibition from the award-winning JORVIK Viking Centre – visitors to the Harris will discover how over 1,000 years ago these invaders turned simple materia…
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Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age skeleton that was buried with an unusual garment: a collar or headdress made of dozens of bird beaks and skulls. The so-called birdman's remains, which date…
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By Rachel Newcomb May 31 at 7:43 AM Rachel Newcomb is an anthropologist and the Diane and Michael Maher distinguished professor of teaching and learning at Rollins College. She is the author of “Ever…
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Since its discovery in a shipwreck near Greece in 1900, an ancient metallic astronomical clock, called the ‘Antikythera Mechanism’ still baffles scientists. Research articles on the clock offer loose…
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An international team of researchers say they have uncovered the earliest evidence of systematic flaked stone tool production and use at a site in Ethiopia. Previously, scientists had evidence for th…
Ancient artifacts preserved in snow and ice over thousands of years in Norway's mountains are emerging at an unprecedented rate, and archaeologists are scrambling to collect them all before it's too …
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Origins of cannabis traced back 28 million years to Tibetan Plateau 5/21/2019 03:00:00 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest The origin of marijuana has finally be…
It is widely taught in the field of ancient history that Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and India, gave rise to the first civilizations of mankind. However, few are aware that at the same time, and in so…
An article from the Max Planck Society on phys.org - Ancient DNA sheds light on Arctic hunter-gatherer migration to North America 5,000 years ago - reports on the new genome research on the arrival o…
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Researchers have unearthed some deliberately sharpened tools that date from over 2.5 million years ago. These artifacts are changing our understanding of the invention of tools and showing that our a…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 14, 2019) — Five graduate students at the University of Kentucky have been named champions of the Ethics Bowl Competition. Last month, the team claimed the first place prize at th…
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© Michel Koczy / Betund Lehrhaus Petriplatz Berlin e.V. From the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba to the Hagia Sophia, there are many spaces that have, at one time or another, served different religions. …
New Mexico is a visual feast for geology enthusiasts, with a landscape etched by ancient seas, enormous earthquakes, a variety of volcanoes, and the ongoing sculpting of wind and water erosion. Over …
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Bottle of 'Clarke's Female Pills', an abortifacient drug, found in the 19th c Morton privy in Binghamton, NY. David Tuttle / Historical Archaeology The archaeological discovery of presumably aborted …
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What might be passed over as two oddly shaped rocks are the work of Stone Age artisans who sculpted the rocks into beady-eyed snake heads, archaeologists have found. It's a mystery why these ancient …
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It started with a hiker who plucked two curious objects from a bit of scattered trash, a discovery that launched months of speculation and investigation. Each wafer-thin bit of metal — one about the …
The Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire consist a stone circle called the King’s Men, a Neolithic burial chamber called the Whispering Knights, and a lone standing stone called the King Stone. The Whispe…
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During wildfires and other emergency incidents, emergency responders, public safety officers, and others work tirelessly to protect life and property. Perhaps lesser known is that a host of other pro…
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In the center of the former Nazi death camp Sobibor, on ground where Jewish victims undressed before going to “the showers,” a museum and tourist center are slowly emerging. With the death this week …
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