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Political Strife Caused By Climate Change Doomed the Mayans
Archaeologists argue that drought caused by climate variation played a major role in the decline and fall of Mayan...
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Archaeologists Discover Thracian Golden Jewelry
Archaeologists say they have unearthed an almost 2,400-year-old golden hoard in an ancient Thracian tomb in northern Bulgaria. The...
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Tools Hint at Earlier Start for Human Smarts
A trove of sophisticated stone tools recently dug up from a South African cliff suggests early modern humans developed...
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Trigger for Earth’s Last Big Freeze Identified
For more than 30 years, climate scientists have debated whether flood waters from melting of the enormous Laurentide Ice...
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Oldest Town of the Old World Found in Bulgaria
Bulgarian archaeologists have found what they believe to be the oldest town in Europe, a salt production center called...
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Study Links Cooked Food to Early Humans’ Growing Brains
Here’s something for raw-food aficionados to chew on: Cooked food might be a big reason humans were able to...
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Evidence of Viking Outpost Found in Canada
For the past 50 years—since the discovery of a thousand-year-old Viking way station in Newfoundland—archaeologists and amateur historians have...
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A Swedish Stonehenge? Stone Age Tomb May Predate English Site
A 5,500-year-old tomb possibly belonging to a Stone Age chieftain has been unearthed at a megalithic monument in the...
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Prehistoric Human Populations Prospered Before Agricultural Boom
Researchers from China’s Fudan University have found major prehistoric human population expansions may have begun before the Neolithic period,...