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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
Nov 24, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Investigating the evolutionary history of the Old World Porcupines using DNA from specimens from the Late Pleistocene of China. Hystricidae (the Old World porcupines), which includes three distinguishable genera ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 23, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Yaviichnus inyooensis: A new complex burrow system from the Oligocene of southern Mexico. The behavior of burrowing has probably been present in Mammals since their early origins. Soil provides physical protection; it ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 27, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by sunhatpat
LINKAnother article to provoke thought. As someone who has spent countless hours reading, writing and thinking about ancient humans and the development of patriarchal structures, I found this article fascinating and insightful. It's a longish read, but ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 21, 2018May 2018

Posted by Aivery
Megaladon jaw
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 24, 2018May 2018

Posted by Aivery
Life size dinos
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jun 6, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by Aivery
This is a baboon drawn in the same way we draw dinosaurs from their bones. This article has more modern animals drawn in a similar manner. :
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jun 21, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by Druvius
I love the Cambrian explosion, Anomalocaris, one of the first predators. Though from reading elsewhere, it's no longer believed it ate trilobites, it only ate soft bodied prey:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 25, 2018Oct 2018

Posted by Frankjd
Ok, can't be serious all the time:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 26, 2018Oct 2018

Posted by Druvius
Laser Scanning Archaeopteryx
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Shared from General & Hellos
Apr 4, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by MojoDave
Ancient whales walked on four legs and moved like giant otters
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 15, 2019May 2019

Posted by AnonySchmoose
The big five mass extinctions "Biologists suspect we’re living through the sixth major mass extinction. Earth has witnessed five, when more than 75% of species disappeared. Palaeontologists spot them when species go missing from the global ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 19, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Allamanda
on the beach!
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 15, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by Fernapple
Close physical contact.
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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 12, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by Surfpirate
It's all about the pottery shards. lol
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Apr 4, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Druvius
I just recently discovered that "The Time Team" is on Tubi. Free in other words. And very few commercials to boot. Lots of fun.
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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
Jan 17, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by AnonySchmoose
"Tales of African-American History Found in DNA." "The history of African-Americans has been shaped in part by two great journeys. The first brought hundreds of thousands of Africans to the southern United States as slaves. ...
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Jan 4, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by Nessie_W
"There doesn’t seem to be any culture in which masks have not been used. From the Australian outback to the Arctic, from Mesolithic Africa to the United States of the 21st century, people have always made and employed masks in ways that are ...
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Jan 4, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by Nessie_W
Like Pompeii, Herculaneum was a Roman city wiped out by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The story of its destruction is different, however. During the initial phase of eruption, winds carried ash and pumice over Pompeii for many hours, burying the...
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Shared from Silly, Random & Fun
Jan 14, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by Nessie_W
The Pteyl
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 18, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by AnonySchmoose
LINKWhy billions of people won't eat pork (or why we don't know) - YouTube
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 13, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Larimar
Pics of temple in Esna, Egypt
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Apr 21, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by t1nick
Why Bats Are One of Evolution’s Greatest Puzzles Paleontologists seek the ancestors that could explain how bats became the only flying mammals. Palaeochiropteryx By Riley Black SMITHSONIANMAG.COM APRIL 21, 2020 8:00AM
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 1, 2020May 2020

Posted by t1nick
Ancient Greek Site Where Men were Buried with their Horses to be Restored. Tasos Kokkinidis 6 days ago
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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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