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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
Dec 9, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Glassmaking in early Umayyad Spain. The processes of innovation and transfer of skills are fundamental concerns in the study of past technologies. The advent of ancient technologies and the adoption of new ones are ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 8, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Middle Stone Age tools from the Kerma are of northern Sudan. One of the primary regions for understanding the process of Anatomically Modern Human dispersal and migration is the Nile Valley and the coast of the Red Sea,...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 8, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Brittagnathus minutus: A new species of Tetrapod from the Late Devonian of Greenland. In 1987, an expedition to East Greenland mounted by the University of Cambridge and the Geological Museum Copenhagen, under the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 8, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Lingulate Brachiopods from the Lower Devonian of the Spanish Central Pyrenees. Lochkovian and Pragian strata from selected sections in the Spanish Central Pyrenees have provided one of the best Conodont sequences in the...
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Nov 7, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Druvius
9,000 year old female hunter's burial upsets (stupid) assumptions about gender roles in ancient societies:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 5, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Evidence of a late Palaeozoic land connection between Appalachia and Iberia. Over the past 30 years, a broad consensus has emerged that repeated cycles of supercontinent amalgamation and dispersal have occurred since ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 5, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Considering a supernova as the possible cause of the End Devonian Extinction. The Late Devonian biodiversity crisis is characterized by a protracted decline in speciation rate occurring over millions of years, ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 3, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by bobwjr
LINKFrozen Bird Found in Siberia is 46,000 Years Old
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 2, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Understanding the rural landscape around the ancient city of Petra. The ancient city of Petra is rightly known for its long-distance trade connections and spectacular funerary architecture, but its inhabitants’ ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 1, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
'Giant' Pelagornithid Birds from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica. Bony-toothed Birds (Odontopterygiformes: Pelagornithidae) are an extinct clade of large, pelagic, volant Birds with a fossil record spanning ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 1, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Dating the earliest Myriapods. Understanding how organisms colonised the land, is crucial to clarify extant biodiversity and biological adaptation. But, evaluating the rate and pattern of land colonisation requires ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 30, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Eomakhaira molossus: A new species of small saber-toothed Sparassodont Marsupial from the Early Oligocene of Chile. The Sparassodonta, an extinct group of Metatherians (Marsupials and their extinct relatives), were the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 29, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Theresa_N
Prehistoric rock art discovered in Amazon:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 29, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Theresa_N
Large billed cretaceous bird:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by LuvLayne
Even among its extinct relatives, Megalodon was unequalled in length and mass.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 13, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by JoeB
Evidence for a Reptile-like physiology in Early Jurassic stem-Mammals Recent discoveries and analyses have revolutionised our knowledge of Mesozoic Mammals, revealing novel aspects of their ecology, development, ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 9, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by JoeB
Sinobaatar pani: A new species of Multituberculate Mammal from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, with insights into the evolutionary development of the Mammalian middle ear. Attachment of the ectotympanic bone to the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 8, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by Larimar
1200 yr old Pagan temple found in Norway
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 8, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by JoeB
Mammalian feeding traces on a Sauropod Dinosaur bone from the Late Jurassic of northwestern China. For more than 160 million years, Mammals lived in the shadow of the Dinosaurs, remaining small and elusive with an ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 7, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by JoeB
Evidence of seasonal torpor in an Early Triassic Antarctic Lystrosaurus. Antarctica is today the coldest and driest continent with extreme variation in light availability throughout the year, restricting vertebrate life...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 6, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by JoeB
Tetrapod fossils from the Late Permian of Shanxi Province, China. Chinese Permian Tetrapods have been known for decades. Dicynodon sinkianensis, now revised as Jimusaria sinkianensis, from the Guodikeng Formation of ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 6, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by BirdMan1
Far Out!
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 6, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by BirdMan1
Jurassic Feather Finds a Home?
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 6, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by JoeB
Martensius bromackerensis: A new species of Caseid Synapsid from the Early Permian of Germany. The Caseids were a group of Synapsids that appeared in the Late Carboniferous and persisted to the Middle Permian. Most are ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 14, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by JoeB
Fuxinoconodon changi: A new species of Eutriconodont Mammal from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning, China. The Eutriconodonta were a group of Mammals globally distributed during the Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, but ...
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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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