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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals, our closest relatives, became extinct between 40,000 to 35,000 years ago. Since the discovery of the first Neanderthal fossil 165 years ago,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The long-distance migrations of early Bronze Age pastoralists in the Eurasian steppe have captured widespread interest. But the factors behind their remarkable spread
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The monumental reliefs at the Camel Site in northern Arabia are unique: three rock spurs are decorated with naturalistic, life-sized carvings of camels
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Conny Waters- AncientPages.com - An international group of scientists has identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - On the left side of the grave, the male skeleton lays with one arm outstretched, holding the abdomen of the female skeleton by
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Today, more than 10 percent of all global marriages occur among first or second cousins. While cousin-marriages are common practice in some societies,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During the middle of the sixth century CE a dramatic transformation began in how the people of western Europe buried their dead. The
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to available ancient references, Takshashila was the first and earliest Buddhist center of Vedic learning, and the city of Takshashila itself also
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The human capacity for warfare and whether it is an inescapable part of human nature is a hot button issue at the heart
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many answers to certain ancient mysteries can be found if we investigate underwater structures built by long-lost civilizations. Underwater archaeologists have made remarkable
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Understanding when, why, and where our languages play an essential role in the reconstruction of ancient history. Scientists have used a different and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As they watch the Olympic Games in Japan, a group of University of Toronto students is learning about the origins and historical significance
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that "stressed poetry," the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Understanding the environmental conditions under which early humans dispersed out of Africa is important for understanding the factors that affected human evolution. This
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is still difficult to determine just how advanced the Neanderthals were but our extinct causing were much more sophisticated than previously thought.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeology students from the Uppsala University have uncovered the remains of an Iron Age warrior in Sweden. The find made during excavations in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Djoser was possibly the founder of the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom in Egypt. The Old Kingdom began with the third dynasty
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When archaeologists in Denmark say they have struck gold, they do really mean it! One of the biggest gold treasures ever discovered in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of the most interesting archaeological sites is Qumran in West Jordan. This is where scientists in 1947 unearthed clay pots filled with
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As discussed in part 1, the scientists who visited the tribe were told about strange and mysterious beings who once came to this
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Core samples taken from a stand of old growth Douglas-fir trees in the South Beach area just south of Newport showed reduced growth
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two hundred fifty-two million years ago, much of life on planet Earth was dying. In an event that marked the end of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Native Americans who occupied the area known as Poverty Point in northern Louisiana more than 3,000 years ago long have been believed
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Medieval manuscript fragments discovered in Bristol that tell part of the story of Merlin the magician, one of the most famous characters from
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When stories about the mysterious Old Leather Man started circulating, many wanted to know more about the unusual man. People reported seeing a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Beer has been a popular beverage for as long as anyone can remember. Ancient people enjoyed beer just as much as many of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.om - The controversial ruler Boris Godunov (1552–1605) has unwillingly become an unpopular character in Russian history. His biography is full of ambiguities and gaps.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New archeological research highlights major blind spots in Australia's environmental management policies, placing submerged Indigenous heritage at risk. The study area relative to the
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