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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 23, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by JoeB
Fluctuations in mercury and organic carbon in the peatlands of southwest China before the End Permian Extinction. Carbon has two stable isotopes, carbon¹² and carbon¹³, of which plants preferentially incorporate ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 27, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by BDair
Slip sliding away, before merrily rolling along.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 9, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by JoeB
Excavations at the Aksumite town of Beta Samati. Aksum remains one of the least documented major civilisations of the ancient world. Ethiopia’s earliest complex polities appeared during the Pre-Aksumite period (from ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 13, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by Surfpirate
I would hate to wake up in the middle of the night because one of these things was climbing up my leg. Interesting that male spiders developed a special leg between their fangs to help insert sperm into the female spider.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 23, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by Jetty
LINKCaveman sex practices explain why monogamy is so difficult. 😂 🤣
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 5, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by Jetty
LINKMissing Piece of the World's Oldest Analog Computer Found on Aegean Seabed
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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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Shared from General & Hellos
Mar 16, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by silverotter11
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 18, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by t1nick
One of Darwin's evolution theories finally proved by Cambridge researcher.
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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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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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Shared from Academic (e.g., Science)
Apr 13, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Druvius
Like Gilligan's Island, except with monkeys:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Apr 30, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by t1nick
Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous history – but new techniques are correcting it by Sturt Manning, The Conversation Columbus famously reached the Americas in 1492. Other Europeans had made the journey before,...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 14, 2020May 2020

Posted by t1nick
Mysteriously Complex Geometric Architecture Discovered in Neolithic Temple – Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge By American Friends of Tel Aviv University on May 13, 2020 Commentary from me: Prior to 1970, it was not uncommon for archaeologists...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jun 5, 2020Jun 2020

Posted by Larimar
lost instruments this is a better link
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jun 13, 2020Jun 2020

Posted by Jetty
LINK20,000 Women and 100,000 Castrated Men to Serve the Emperor: The Imperial Harem of China | Ancient Origins
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jul 15, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by Fernapple
A very old mystery, and perhaps we have to accept that some mysteries will never be solved, but at least that gives us freedom to speculate.
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Shared from Academic (e.g., Science)
Jul 15, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by Druvius
Cerne Abbas chalk giant is not prehistoric, snail remains suggest: Not terribly surprising, a more recent origin has always seemed more likely to me.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jul 30, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by Fernapple
In a way sometimes the best science turns over your world view, and sometimes just confirms your feelings rationally. This seems an interesting look at something we kind of knew already.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jul 30, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by FrostyJim
For anyone interested in British Archeology and the BBC - Time Team TV series just go to YouTube and look up Time Team...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Aug 14, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by t1nick
Ancient Genomes Suggest the Real Reason Woolly Rhinos Went Extinct By Cell Press on Aug 13, 2020 The extinction of prehistoric megafauna like the woolly mammoth, cave lion, and woolly rhinoceros at the end of the last ice age has often been ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Sep 10, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by JoeB
Investigating Mokarta, a Bronze Age hilltop settlement in western Sicily. The settlement at Mokarta is one of the most significant later Bronze Age sites so far discovered in western Sicily. Located on a prominent ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Sep 11, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by JoeB
Adelophthalmus pyrrhae: A new species of Eurypterid 'Sea Scorpion' from the Carboniferous of Montagne Noire, France, which may have been capable of breathing air. Arachnids are the second most successful terrestrial ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 16, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by Mooolah
LINKIsraeli experts announce discovery of more Dead Sea scrolls
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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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