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

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

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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 3, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by JoeB
Shellfish use at the Oakhurst Period at Klipdrift Cave, South Africa. Early evidence for the exploitation of Shellfish for subsistence traces back to at least 164 thousand years during the Middle Stone Age in South ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 10, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by Allamanda
A better article about the recent Indonesian cave painting find, with more pictures:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 2, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by Surfpirate
Anniversary Dates can be so hard.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 2, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by JoeB
Evidence for predation of soft-bodied Cephalopods by Pterosaurs from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of southern . Constraining the diets of extinct taxa is vital for understanding predator-prey relationships, ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 7, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by BDair
Channel Islands History
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 9, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by EyesThatSmile
Another article on fakes and forgeries. The more scientific methods we come up with, the more we can identity these fakes from history (and know what is true!). It is disturbing what people try to get away with.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 11, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by AnonySchmoose
LINKNew fossils are redefining what makes a dinosaur | Science News
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 23, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by bobwjr
LINKDrought Uncovers an Astounding "Stonehenge" Site in Spain
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 27, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by Allamanda
A marsupial lion the size of a house-cat!
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 1, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by Allamanda
On the pre-history of the Caribbean - I will post translation below.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 4, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by bobwjr
LINKRuins of a 3000-year-old Armenian castle found in Lake Van – Turkey | ARCHAEOLOGY WORLD
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 8, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by ToolGuy
Student discovers a village in BC older than the pyramids.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 9, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by bobwjr
LINKThe first people to inhabit North America's Arctic region are not the genetic ancestors of the modern-day Inuit 
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 18, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by Surfpirate
When you deal with stolen antiquities, you have to expect that they may be forgeries. This couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch of Xstian scum.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 27, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by AnonySchmoose
LINKNeandertals’ extensive seafood menu rivals that of ancient humans | Science News
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Apr 1, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Fernapple
Story from the fairly distant past, but if you are in lock down and valuing a little none human companionship right now, it is topical.
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Shared from Academic (e.g., Science)
Apr 8, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by silverotter11
From eastern Washington.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Apr 8, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Fernapple
Perhaps the biggest story, at least in numbers, of all from deep time.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Apr 10, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Surfpirate
Life and Death, still the same after 4,000 years.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Apr 12, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by JoeB
Microfossils from the Palaeoproterozoic Hutuo Group of Shanxi Province, China. Geological and geochemical evidence has revealed that the Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic period was vitally important for Earth’s ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 18, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by Fernapple
Perhaps, if you think about it, the most important story ever told, and no it does not have a god in it.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 23, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by Triphid
AND, for those who DO NO like snakes, try not to LOOK. The Prehistoric Aussie Snake, the Wonambi, just a ' little ' fellah ' btw, only grew to about SIX metres in length...LOL. From top left to bottom right, Artists impresiion of the Wonambi, ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 29, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by JoeB
Animal remains from the Parknabinnia Neolithic court tomb in County Clare, Ireland. Large monuments made of stone (Megaliths), or timber and earth, appeared across much of Western Europe with the onset of the Neolithic....
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 2, 2021May 2021

Posted by JoeB
German museums agree to return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. A consortium of German museums has agreed to begin their holdings of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. The Bronzes (which are in fact made of a variety of materials, ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 25, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Fossils from the Pliocene Mille-Logya Site in the Afar Region of Ethiopia suggest that the origin of the genus Homo was associated with environmental change. For many decades, a disparity between the resolution of long ...
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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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