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A for people who are interested in paleontology, archeology, and anthropology. Pseudoscience, ancient aliens, etc. discouraged.

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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 6, 2022May 2022

Posted by Mooolah
LINKA woman bought a sculpture at Goodwill for $34.99. It actually was a missing ancient Roman bust.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 4, 2022May 2022

Posted by skado
Discovering ancient cave art using 3D photogrammetry: pre-contact Native American mud glyphs from 19th Unnamed Cave, Alabama Read article at this link: If the following video is not available here, there’s a link to it in the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 21, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by MizJ
LINKIn Peru, skull of 'marine monster' points to fearsome ancient predator | Reuters
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 19, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by JoeB
Stone tools from the Borselan Rock Shelter, in the Binalud Mountains of northeastern Iran. The mountain ranges of the northeastern Iranian Plateau have an abundant supply of water and mineral resources, and are believed...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 19, 2022Jan 2022

Posted by JoeB
Analysing silver from Phoenician hoards. From about 4000 BC onwards the use of silver became widespread in the ancient world. This was obtained by smelting lead-ores in a furnace, and then cupellatiting (oxidising) the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 31, 2021Dec 2021

Posted by JoeB
Investigating ancient burials in western Africa. The organised disposal of the dead is considered to be an important step in the development of Human cognition, an activity driven by the needs of the living to cope with...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 25, 2021Dec 2021

Posted by JoeB
Turtle shells, Frankinsence, and Myrrh: Trade between the nomads of Somaliland and the empires of the ancient world. Nomadic pastoralists are known to have been important to the economics of the ancient world, operating...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 24, 2021Dec 2021

Posted by NoSheep
LINKScientists discover an ancient oceanic reptile that evolved exceedingly fast
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 20, 2021Dec 2021

Posted by JoeB
Looking at the use of potters wheels by the Indus Civilisation of northwest India. The invention of he wheel is considered to be one of the most significant milestones in Human history. Wheels are useful not just as a ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 30, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by NoSheep
LINKScientists in China May Have Found 125-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur DNA | Ancient Origins
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 15, 2021Oct 2021

Posted by Notlost
LINKAnalysis of ancient teeth questions theory that Native Americans originated from Japan | Live Science
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 13, 2021Oct 2021

Posted by Notlost
LINKThe Monumental Tomb of Queen Tin Hinan, Ancient Ancestress of the Tuaregs | Ancient Origins
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Sep 15, 2021Sep 2021

Posted by Word
New ancient human found in Israel 08 SEPTEMBER 2021|ARCHAEOLOGY
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Sep 11, 2021Sep 2021

Posted by JoeB
A Rhamphorhynchine Pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Chile. Pterosaurs first appeared in the Late Triassic, and persisted until the End of the Cretaceous. They are thought to have had a worldwide distribution for much...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jun 26, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by JoeB
Investigating the potential for pseudofossil formation in Earth's ancient sediments. The earliest evidence for life on Earth comes in two forms; chemical evidence, i.e. compounds believed to have been derived from the ...
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Shared from General & Hellos
Jun 24, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by BirdMan1
Ancient Bread and Beer:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jun 4, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by JoeB
Understanding the role of sediment-gravity flows in the formation of the Cambrian Burgess Shale Lagerstätte. The fossil record has been used to reconstruct a history of the evolution of life on Earth, but itself ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jun 2, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by JoeB
Was Stonehenge originally located at Waun Mawn in the Preseli Hills of Wales. Around 1036 AD, Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote that the stones of Stonehenge came originally from Giants’ Dance on the legendary Mount ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 14, 2021May 2021

Posted by JoeB
Dating efforts suggest Cerne Abbas Giant is Anglo Saxon in origin. Generations have speculated about the age and meaning of the club-brandishing giant hewn into a hillside in Dorset, England. Was he a depiction of the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 2, 2021May 2021

Posted by JoeB
Untouched Chamber Tomb discovered in County Kerry, Ireland. Construction workers working on a land improvement project on a farm in Ireland have uncovered a previously untouched ancient tomb. The tomb was exposed when a...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Apr 23, 2021Apr 2021

Posted by JoeB
United States returns seized archaeological artefacts to Afghanistan. The United States government has formerly handed over a collection of ancient artefacts seized from a New York art dealer to the government of ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Apr 23, 2021Apr 2021

Posted by JoeB
United States returns seized archaeological artefacts to Afghanistan. The United States government has formerly handed over a collection of ancient artefacts seized from a New York art dealer to the government of ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 3, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by JoeB
Looking for evidence of a Martian origin of life. An origin of Earth life on Mars would resolve significant inconsistencies between the inferred history of life and Earth’s geologic history. Life as we know it ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 28, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by JoeB
Four-wheeled ceremonial chariot unearthed in an area of Pompeii targetted by looters. The Archaeological Park of Pompeii and the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Torre Annunziata have released a press statement ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 23, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by Triphid
Thought you may like to 'feast' your eyes upon a few more ancient residents of the regions in and around Australia. First, moving clockwise from top to bottom, is the Dromornis, ancient Ancestor of the Emu, stood about 3 metres tall, Second, the ...
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Posted by JoeBKite-like structures in the western Sahara Desert.

Posted by TriphidAn Aussie Indigenous Message Stick.

Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.

Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.

Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.

Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.

Posted by JoeBDortoka vremiri: A new species of Dortokid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of the Hațeg Basin, Romania.

Posted by JoeBThe Cabeço da Amoreira burial: An Early Modern Era West African buried in a Mesolithic shell midden in Portugal.

Posted by JoeBMusivavis amabilis: A new species of Enantiornithine Bird from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of northeastern China.

Posted by JoeBTorosaurus in Canada.

Posted by JoeBStone tools from the Borselan Rock Shelter, in the Binalud Mountains of northeastern Iran.

Posted by JoeBDating the Lantian Biota.

Posted by JoeBBashanosaurus primitivus: A new species of Stegosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Chongqing Municipality, China.

Posted by JoeBDetermining the time of year when the Chicxulub Impactor fell.

Posted by JoeBSão Tomé and Príncipe: Possibly the last country on Earth never to have been visited by a working archaeologist.

Posted by JoeBMambawakale ruhuhu: A new species of Pseudosuchian Archosaur from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania.

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