Archaeology
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ArchaeologyNeandertals’ diet put meat in their bones
Chemical analyses of Neandertals' bones portray these ancient Europeans as skillful hunters and avid meat eaters, countering a theory that they mainly scavenged scraps of meat from abandoned carcasses.
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ArchaeologyGuard dogs and horse riders
More than 5,000 years ago, the Botai people of central Asia had ritual practices that appeared in many later cultures.
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ArchaeologyAncient origins of fire use
Human ancestors may have learned to control fire 1.7 million years ago in eastern Africa.
By Bruce Bower -
ArchaeologyEarly New World Settlers Rise in East
New evidence supports the view that people occupied a site in coastal Virginia at least 15,000 years ago.
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ArchaeologyAncient Asian Tools Crossed the Line
Excavations in China yield surprising finds of 800,000-year-old stone hand axes.
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ArchaeologyVase shows that ancients dug fossils, too
A painting on an ancient Corinthian vase may be the first record of a fossil find.