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Hereditary Inequality Among Stone Age Farmers
A study of more than 300 Neolithic skeletons suggests evidence of “hereditary inequality” among farmers 7,000 years ago, researchers...
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Shifting Trade Routes May Have Been Root Cause of Mayan Decline
The end of the classic Mayan civilization in the lowlands of Mesoamerica was likely expedited by shifting trade routes...
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World’s Oldest Musical Instruments Found in German Cave
Researchers have identified what they say are the oldest musical instruments in the world. The flutes, made from bird...
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On the Origins of Language
Linguists know that languages change drastically over the course of a few thousand years, so drastically that there’s no...
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Will Technology Kill Humanity?
Species don’t hang around forever. Homo sapiens has already notched up a mind-boggling 200,000 years on Earth. Is the...
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Ancient Bethlehem Seal Unearthed in Jerusalem
Archaeologists digging at a Jerusalem site have found the oldest artifact that bears the inscription of Bethlehem -- a...
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Ancient Mayan Workshop for Astronomers Discovered
Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to...
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Peopling the Planet
Not long ago, the story was simple. A vanguard of modern humans left their African birthplace 50,000–60,000 years ago...
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Early North Americans Lived With Extinct Giant Beasts
A new University of Florida study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence humans reached the Western...
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Oetzi the Iceman’s Blood Is World’s Oldest
Researchers studying Oetzi, a 5,300-year-old body found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, have found red blood cells...