Archaeology
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ArchaeologyTennessee site yields oldest known American tattoo tools
Native Americans may have used sharpened turkey leg bones as tattoo needles between 5,520 and 3,620 years ago.
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GeneticsEurope’s ancient humans often hooked up with Neandertals
DNA from ancient bones shows humans and Neandertals were regularly mixing genes by about 45,000 years ago.
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ArchaeologyUnusual mud shell covers an Egyptian mummy
In ancient Egypt, commoners may have been mummified and then encased in mud to repair damage to the body or to imitate royal techniques used with royals.
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ArchaeologyHarsh Ice Age winters may have helped turn wolves into dogs
In the Ice Age, Arctic hunters may have turned to some game for their fatty bones. Much of those animals’ meat might have been left to domesticate dogs.
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MathWhat the mummy’s curse reveals about your brain
A man died soon after opening a mummy’s tomb. But don’t assume the mummy killed him. Statistics help explain why coincidences may not be meaningful.
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ArchaeologyThis prehistoric woman from Peru hunted big game
Women in the Americas speared large prey as early as 9,000 years ago, new archaeological evidence suggests.
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ArchaeologySee what these animal mummies are keeping under wraps
A new method of 3-D scanning mummified animals reveals life and death details of a snake, a bird and a cat that lived in ancient Egypt.
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ArchaeologyStonehenge enhanced voices and music within the stone ring
Scientists built a 'Stonehenge Lego' model in a sound chamber to study how sound would have behaved in the ancient stone circle.
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ArchaeologyLet’s learn about ancient technology
Ancient people didn’t have the internet. Instead, they performed surgeries, made weapons and built monuments with wood, stones, rope and fire.
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ArchaeologyWomen like Mulan didn’t need to go to war in disguise
Female skeletons in Mongolia show injuries like those of fighting men — evidence that they could be warriors, too.
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HumansLet’s learn about early humans
Homo sapiens are the last member left of our genus. But many other species of early humans existed before us.
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ArchaeologyUnderground mega-monument found near Stonehenge
Archaeologists used high-tech tools to uncover ancient underground pits near Stonehenge. The find may offer insights into Britain’s Stone Age culture.