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mammoth, mastodon, and gomphothere
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How mammoths competed with other animals and lost
Mammoths, mastodons and other ancient elephants were wiped out at the end of the last ice age by climate change and spear-wielding humans.
By Alexandra Witze | 12:30pm, November 13, 2018
cave painting of red animal in Borneo
News | Archaeology
Like Europe, Borneo hosted Stone Age cave artists
By Bruce Bower | 1:00pm, November 07, 2018
ancient antelope jaw and teeth
News in Brief | Archaeology
Fossils hint hominids migrated through a ‘green’ Arabia 300,000 years ago
By Bruce Bower | 11:13am, November 01, 2018
drying tobacco leaves
News in Brief | Archaeology
People in the Pacific Northwest smoked tobacco long before Europeans showed up
By Jennifer Leman | 3:00pm, October 29, 2018
cacao beans
News | Archaeology
Ancient South Americans tasted chocolate 1,500 years before anyone else
By Bruce Bower | 12:00pm, October 29, 2018
ancient spearpoint
News | Archaeology
Ancient Clovis people may have taken tool cues from earlier Americans
By Bruce Bower | 2:47pm, October 24, 2018
a photo of Angkor Wat temple
News | Archaeology
The water system that helped Angkor rise may have also brought its fall
By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, October 17, 2018
skull from Roman cemetery
News in Brief | Archaeology
An ancient child’s ‘vampire burial’ included steps to prevent resurrection
By Bruce Bower | 1:00pm, October 16, 2018
Silene stenophylla
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50 years ago, a 550-year-old seed sprouted
By Tina Hesman Saey | 7:00am, October 10, 2018
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News | Archaeology
Laser mapping shows the surprising complexity of the Maya civilization
By Bruce Bower | 2:22pm, September 27, 2018
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