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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 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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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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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 3, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by Theresa_N
Squatters threaten to destroy remains of a cultural artifacts from 5,000 years ago:
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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 30, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by Theresa_N
Wooly Rhino found preserved in ice:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 30, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Understanding tooth attachment and replacement in Bolosaurid Parareptiles. Bolosaurid Parareptiles occupy a unique position in Amniote evolution. They were the first to develop a combination of a lower temporal fenestra...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 27, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Using X-ray computed tomographic reconstruction to understand the Dřevíč Lead Amulet. Various magical items and practices have been used for protection from potential misfortune since time immemorial. Diseases, ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 9, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by JackPedigo
A recent amazing find Bison Antiquus, on one of our islands. Presented on PBS. A very interesting video.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 26, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Immature feathers in juvenile Enantiornithines from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Avifauna. Most data concerning the integument of the non-neornithine Pennaraptora; the clade that includes all Dinosaurs (including Birds) ...
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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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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 24, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Looking for the origin of the Eukaryotes. The Eukaryotic cell is strikingly distinct from its much simpler Prokaryote relatives, possessing not only a nucleus, but also a complex cytoskeleton, a sophisticated ...
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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
And just for laughs ( Yes I know this a serious group btw) a few pictures of Australia's Living and most useless Fossils. In order of de-Evolution of course, Malcom Turnbull, Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 20, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by Triphid
And here is one of the most famous fossilized dinosaurs found in Australia, Muttaburrasaurus Langdoni from Queensland.
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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 20, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Gyaltsenglossus senis: A Hemichordate from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Hemichordate relationships remain contentious due to conflicting molecular results and the high degree of morphological disparity between the...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 20, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Eoconstrictor fischeri: A Booid Snake from the Middle Eocene Messel Shale of Germany. Snakes of the clade Boidae (Boas, Anacondas, Emerald Boas) are arguably among the most charismatic species of living Reptiles. They ...
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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
Jan 18, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by mkeaman
Searching for Lost Kingdoms of the Amazon -
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 14, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by JoeB
The oldest known large-scale brewery discovered in Egypt. An Egyptian-American Archaeological Mission, headed by Matthew Adams of New York University, and Deborah Vishak of Princeton University, working in north Abydos ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 13, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by JoeB
Bounomys ulantatalensis: Four new specimens of a Comb Rat from the Early Oligocene of Inner Mongolia. Ctenodactyloids, or Comb Rats are a group of Rodents found today only in Africa. They are characterised by the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 6, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by mkeaman
Polynesians in South America, or South America in Polynesia, or both!
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 31, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by JoeB
Small carbonaceous fossils from the Early Cambrian of North Greenland. The major Cambrian Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätten provide crucial glimpses into flourishing communities of soft-bodied Metazoans from early on in ...
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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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