Archaeology

  1. Anthropology

    Belize cave was Maya child sacrifice site

    Bones in Central American cave suggest many Maya sacrificial victims were children.

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  2. Science & Society

    ‘House of Lost Worlds’ opens vaults of renowned natural history museum

    'House of Lost Worlds' pays homage to Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History and to the colorful scientists who made the museum great.

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  3. Archaeology

    Possible second Viking site found in Newfoundland

    Newfoundland excavation reveals possible Norse settlement.

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  4. Archaeology

    Ancient Assyrians buried their dead with turtles

    Why did ancient Assyrians bury their dead with turtles? The reptiles may have served as symbolic protectors of the dead.

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  5. Climate

    Hurricane frequency dropped during 17th century ‘Little Ice Age’

    Atlantic hurricane activity fell around 75 percent when the sun dimmed from 1645 to 1715, a new analysis of shipwrecks and tree rings suggests.

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  6. Archaeology

    11,000-year-old pendant with etched design found in England

    Stone artifact with design etched on it comes from a transitional time in England 11,000 years ago.

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  7. Archaeology

    Tailored Egyptian dress is the oldest ever found

    A pleated dress found in an ancient Egyptian cemetery called Tarkhan was cut, fitted and tailored between 5,400 and 5,100 years ago.

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  8. Oceans

    Gulf oil spill could hasten corrosion of shipwrecks

    Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster could hasten the corrosion of historical shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico, new studies of marine microbes suggest.

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  9. Archaeology

    Easter Island people used sharpened stones as tools, not weapons

    Sharp-edged stone tools enabled daily survival, not warfare, on Easter Island.

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  10. Archaeology

    Babylonians used geometry to track Jupiter’s movements

    Babylonians took a geometric leap to track Jupiter’s movements long before European astronomers did.

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  11. Archaeology

    Humans visited Arctic earlier than thought

    Human weapon injuries on mammoth bones show humans were in the Arctic up to 15,000 years earlier than researchers thought.

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  12. Archaeology

    Ancient stone tools raise tantalizing questions over who colonized Sulawesi

    Hominids reached an island not far from hobbits’ home by around 200,000 years ago.

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