Archaeology

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  1. Archaeology

    Precolonial farmers thrived in one of North America’s coldest places

    Ancestral Menominee people in what’s now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grew maize and other crops on large tracts of land despite harsh conditions.

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  2. Archaeology

    Neandertals may have hunted in horse-trapping teams 200,000 years ago

    A revised age for a German site indicates that our evolutionary cousins organized horse ambushes around 200,000 years ago.

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  3. Archaeology

    Neandertals invented bone-tipped spears all on their own

    An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

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  4. Archaeology

    British tin might have fueled the rise of some Bronze Age civilizations

    Chemical evidence of tin from coastal British sites reaching Bronze Age Mediterranean societies highlights a supply chain dispute.

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  5. Archaeology

    A Pueblo tribe recruited scientists to reclaim its ancient American history

    DNA supports modern Picuris Pueblo accounts of ancestry going back more than 1,000 years to Chaco Canyon society.

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  6. Humans

    Ancient horse hunts challenge ideas of ‘modern’ human behavior

    An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

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  7. Climate

    A lush, green Arabian Desert may have once linked Africa and Asia

    Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

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  8. Archaeology

    Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled seafarers

    New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

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  9. Archaeology

    Ancient Arabian cymbals ring up Bronze Age musical connections

    Copper instruments discovered at a 4,000-year-old site in Oman echo ritual influences from South Asia.

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