Archaeology

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  1. Archaeology

    Ancient Arabian cymbals ring up Bronze Age musical connections

    Copper instruments discovered at a 4,000-year-old site in Oman echo ritual influences from South Asia.

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  2. Archaeology

    Neandertal-like tools found in China present a mystery

    A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

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  3. Archaeology

    These ancient Maya-era puppets may have been used in rituals

    The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

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  4. Archaeology

    Human ancestors made the oldest known bone tools 1.5 million years ago

    The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

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  5. Archaeology

    Mount Vesuvius turned this ancient brain into glass. Here’s how

    Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.

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  6. Archaeology

    Humans moved into African rainforests at least 150,000 years ago

    This oldest known evidence of people living in tropical forests supports an idea that human evolution occurred across Africa.

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  7. Anthropology

    An African strontium map sheds light on the origins of enslaved people

    While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

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  8. Archaeology

    Here’s how ancient Amazonians became master maize farmers

    Casarabe people grew the nutritious crop year-round on savannas thanks to networks of drainage canals and ponds.

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  9. Archaeology

    Ancient, engraved stones may have been buried to summon the sun

    Members of a Stone Age culture in Denmark may have ritually buried stones to counter the effects of a volcanic eruption.

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