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Funding cuts to U.S. archaeology could imperil field’s future
A Science analysis of canceled and curtailed federal grants reveals hits to research, collections, and training
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Funding cuts to U.S. archaeology could imperil field’s future
A Science analysis of canceled and curtailed federal grants reveals hits to research, collections, and training
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Primate Phenotypes: A Multi-Institution Collection of 3D Morphological Data Housed in MorphoSource - Scientific Data
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#FossilFriday The Taung child found in South Africa, 1924. Raymond Dart published this in Nature #OTD in Feb. 1925 naming Australopithecus africanus, the "southern ape from Africa", and described this as “an extinct race of apes intermediate between living anthropoids and man"
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Denisovans towered over their contemporaries and munched a bunch of meat
A pair of studies dissects the stature and diets of our mysterious archaic cousins
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Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago - Nature Communications
When hominins dispersed into Eurasia is unclear. Here, the authors present multiple cut-marked bones from Grăunceanu, Romania dated to at least 1.95 million years ago and suggest hominins would have l...
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Beds of Grass and Ash: 200,000 Years of Sleeping Arrangements at Border Cave
A new microscopic study traces how Middle Stone Age people at a South African rock shelter constructed, maintained, and repeatedly burned their bedding across more than 150 millennia
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The Denisovan Puzzle Deepens
One of the most fascinating developments in recent years has been the realization that Denisovans were deeply connected to other human groups
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Why 30,000-Year-Old Cave Art Looks Fresher Than 3,000-Year-Old Art 🎨
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New fossils discovered in China have been attributed to Denisovans
An article published in the journal 'Nature' reports the results of a proteomic analysis that led to the identification of fossils attributed to the hominin...
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COSMIC ROOTS: HOW ARCHEOASTRONOMY ILLUMINATES EARLY HUMANS IN MOROCCO
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Betel Nut Sucking Pushes Drug Use Back 12,000 Years
Dental wear and arecoline traces from two Sulawesi foragers show psychoactive nut use began in the Late Pleistocene, long before farming or slaked lime.
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