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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 21, 2022Apr 2022

Posted by JoeB
Dortoka vremiri: A new species of Dortokid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of the Hațeg Basin, Romania. The Cretaceous deposits of the Hațeg Basin of Romania are noted for the production of a rich diversity of endemic...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 12, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by JoeB
Dating the Lantian Biota. Fossils from the Ediacaran Period record a remarkable transition from a world in which there were almost no multicellular organisms to one in which such organisms dominated almost all marine ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 19, 2022Jan 2022

Posted by JoeB
Analysing silver from Phoenician hoards. From about 4000 BC onwards the use of silver became widespread in the ancient world. This was obtained by smelting lead-ores in a furnace, and then cupellatiting (oxidising) the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 27, 2021Dec 2021

Posted by JoeB
Patagoniapteris artabeae: A new species of Dipteridacean Fern from the Triassic of Argentina. The Family Dipteridaceae today contains ten species of Ferns divided into two genera, found in tropical and subtropical areas...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 25, 2021Dec 2021

Posted by JoeB
Turtle shells, Frankinsence, and Myrrh: Trade between the nomads of Somaliland and the empires of the ancient world. Nomadic pastoralists are known to have been important to the economics of the ancient world, operating...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 17, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by Triphid
Time to take some more of your nerve medications because there is another surprise coming. This spider lives on the island off of South Australia, it was thought that the raging Bush-fires a few years ago MAY have wiped them out BUT NO, an Adult and...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 14, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by bobwjr
LINKSinkhole Opens up Near Pantheon Exposing Underground Roman World
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 9, 2021Oct 2021

Posted by JoeB
Grociana piccola: A fortification in northern Italy dating to the Roman Republic. The Roman Republic saw the first expansion of Rome as a military power capable of dominating other areas of the Mediterranean, and the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 3, 2021Oct 2021

Posted by JoeB
Tracing the origins of glass tesserae from the Roman city of Gerasa in northwest Jordan. The city of Gerasa in northwestern Jordan was an important economic and cultural centre in the Eastern Roman Empire and later the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

Posted by JoeB
Understanding ocean chemistry in the Western Interior Seaway during the Cenomanian–Turonian Extinction Event. The boundary between the Cenomanian and Turonian stages of the Cretaceous Period is marked by a mass ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 2, 2021May 2021

Posted by JoeB
German museums agree to return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. A consortium of German museums has agreed to begin their holdings of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. The Bronzes (which are in fact made of a variety of materials, ...
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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
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 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 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
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
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 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
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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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 22, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Hystrix brevirostra: A new species of Porcupine from the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene of Gansu Province, China. Old World Porcupines, Hystrix spp., are some of the Old World largest Rodents ranging from Late Miocene to ...
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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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Oct 4, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by Larimar
59 more sarcophagi found near Saqqara
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Sep 28, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by JoeB
Brachiopod communities of the Early Cambrian Guanshan Lagerstätte of Yunnan Province, China, and their associated facies. Discoveries of spectacular soft-bodied animal assemblages from Cambrian Konservat-Lagerstätten ...
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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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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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