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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
Apr 10, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Surfpirate
An interesting look at the collapse of the ancient world and correlations with our current situation.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 21, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by JoeB
New Chroniosuchian materials from the Permian and Triassic of Xinjiang Province, China The Chroniosuchians were an enigmatic clade of non-Amniotic Tetrapods with uncertain phylogenetic position. This group can be ...
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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
Mar 6, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by JoeB
Ingredients for life found in 3.5 billion-year-old fluid inclusions from Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Primeval Microbes likely required small organic molecules to act as building blocks for biomass and as ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 17, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by AnonySchmoose
"Ancient DNA Shows Humans Settled Caribbean in 2 Distinct Waves." "Millions of people living on the islands today inherited genes from the people who made them home before Europeans arrived ... The genes of the oldest ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 22, 2021May 2021

Posted by BirdMan1
California Find:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 16, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by AmmaRE007
Scientists have traced a genetic descent from the 5,500 year-old remains to a second set of 2,500 year-old female remains found nearby and, amazingly, to a woman still living close to both prehistoric sites on British Columbia’s northern coast ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 31, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by bobwjr
LINKWhat we learned about human origins
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 31, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Bushizheia yangi: A new species of Euarthropod from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte. Over 250 species have been recorded from the Cambrian Series 2, Stage 3 Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, with ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 15, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Keratinous beaks in Confuciusornithiform Birds. The beaked rostrum is one of the most distinctive features of Birds, present in all living species and exhibiting an enormous diversity of form and size relative to the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 30, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by Theresa_N
Wooly Rhino found preserved in ice:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 7, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by josephr
Aboriginal Australians seem to have been right when they claimed to belong to the oldest sustained civilization on the face of the Earth. Their culture and history of oral storytelling stretches back tens of thousands of years and...
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Shared from General & Hellos
May 24, 2021May 2021

Posted by BirdMan1
78,000 Year Old Grave:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 19, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by JoeB
The Portfjeld Biota: A Doushantuo-type Lagerstätte from the Ediacaran of southern Peary Land, North Greenland. Remarkably detailed preservation of cells and soft tissues has been described from several Precambrian ...
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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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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 23, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Hominin trackways from the southern Cape Coast of South Africa The Cape south coast of South Africa has been shown to be of pivotal importance in the origin of cognitively modern Humans in the Middle Stone Age, with ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 20, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by Triphid
Just thought members may like see a few pictures of Australian fossil remains.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 26, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by Triphid
A little something for the Paleontologists amongst us. Dinosaurs tracks and track-ways found in Australia and some of the Dinosaurs that inhabited Australia some 65+ million years ago. i hope you'll enjoy them.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 26, 2021May 2021

Posted by Theresa_N
Massive fossil find in California.
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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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Shared from General & Hellos
Jun 24, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by BirdMan1
Ancient Bread and Beer:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jul 30, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by JoeB
Interpretting the Neolithic Mustatils of northwestern Arabia. The northwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula was, until fairly recently, believed to have been largely uninhabited until the onset of the Iron Age, in the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jul 31, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by JoeB
Searching for dental caries in South African fossil Hominins. Dental caries (the formation of cavities in teeth through decay of the enamel, through the activities of Bacteria) is common in many modern Human ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Aug 9, 2021Aug 2021

Posted by JoeB
Using accurate dating to understand the sedimentary environment in the Clarkia Palaeolake of northern Idaho. The Clarkia Palaeolake in northern Idaho formed when lava flows from the Colombia River Basalts blocked a ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 23, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by Fernapple
Another great story from the deep past, and perhaps one less told. I love the art work too.
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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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