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Posted September 11, 2009:

• Giant Stone-Age Axes Found In African Lake Basin

Posted September 9, 2009:

• Largest-Ever Collection Of Coins From Period Of Revolt Against Romans Found In Judean Hills

Posted September 3, 2009:

• Europe's First Farmers Were Immigrants: Replaced Their Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer Forerunners
• Shawnee Lookout May Be Largest Continuously Occupied Hilltop Native American Site In United States

Posted September 1, 2009:

• Discovery Of Novel Genes Could Unlock Mystery Of What Makes Us Uniquely Human

Posted August 31, 2009:

• No Such Thing As Ethnic Groups, Genetically Speaking, Researchers Say

Posted August 27, 2009:

• We Are All Mutants: Measurement Of Mutation Rate In Humans By Direct Sequencing
• Tiny Ancient Shells -- 80,000 Years Old -- Point To Earliest Fashion Trend

Posted August 25, 2009:

• Animal Sacrifice In Brazilian Folk Religion

Posted August 24, 2009:

• Why Cry? Evolutionary Biologists Show Crying Can Strengthen Relationships

Posted August 20, 2009:

• Evolution Of The Human Appendix: A Biological 'Remnant' No More
• Chinese Culture At The Crossroads: Prehistoric Archaeological Findings Highlighted In New Research

Posted August 18, 2009:

• Key Feature Of Immune System Survived In Humans, Other Primates For 60 Million Years
• Stone Tools, Rare Animal Bones: Clues To Caribbean's Earliest Inhabitants Discovered

Posted August 17, 2009:

• Agricultural Methods Of Early Civilizations May Have Altered Global Climate

Posted August 14, 2009:

• The Peopling Of The Americas: Genetic Ancestry Influences Health, Anthropologist Says

Posted August 13, 2009:

• Early Human Hunters Had Fewer Meat-Sharing Rituals
• Early Modern Humans Used Fire To Engineer Tools From Stone; Complex Cognition Older Than 72,000 Years?

Posted August 12, 2009:

• Speciation Through Genome Duplication More Common In Plant Evolution Than Previously Thought
• Visual Time Machine Offers Tourists A Glimpse Of The Past
• London's Earliest Timber Structure Found During Belmarsh Prison Dig

Posted August 10, 2009:

• Bipedal Humans Came Down From The Trees, Not Up From The Ground
• Archaeologists Find Cache Of Tablets In 2,700-Year Old Turkish Temple

Posted August 4, 2009:

• Scary Ancient 'Spiders' Revealed In 3D Models, With New Imaging Technique

Posted August 3, 2009:

• Computers Unlock More Secrets Of The Mysterious Indus Valley Script

Posted July 28, 2009:

• Human Population Expanded During Late Stone Age, Genetic Evidence Shows

Posted July 27, 2009:

• When Did Humans Return After Last Ice Age?

Posted July 21, 2009:

• Australian Aborigines Initially Arrived Via South Asia
• DNA Of Ancient Lost Barley Could Help Modern Crops Cope With Water Stress

Posted July 20, 2009:

• Human Spear Likely Cause Of Death Of Neandertal
• How Evolution Can Allow For Large Developmental Leaps

Posted July 15, 2009:

• Primate Archaeology Sheds Light On Human Origins

Posted July 14, 2009:

• Last Supper Of The Hominids Establishes Times They Lived At Sites

Posted July 11, 2009:

• Core Nuclear Pore Elements Likely Shared By All Eukaryotes

Posted July 10, 2009:

• A Bridge Too Far? Stark Warning From History Over Plans For 'Inhabited' London Bridge
• New Insights Into Iran's Past: Landlord Villages Of The Tehran Plain

Posted July 9, 2009:

• Underwater Exploration Seeks Evidence Of Early Americans

Posted July 6, 2009:

• First Direct Evidence Of Substantial Fish Consumption By Early Modern Humans In China 40,000 Years Ago

Posted June 30, 2009:

• Giant Moa Rebuilt Using Ancient DNA From Prehistoric Feathers
• New Fossil Primate Suggests Common Asian Ancestor, Challenges Primates Such As 'Ida'
• Computer Recognizes Archaeological Material And Fake Van Goghs

Posted June 25, 2009:

• Monkeys And Humans Use Parallel Mechanism To Recognize Faces

Posted June 24, 2009:

• Paleolithic Bone Flute Discovered: Earliest Musical Tradition Documented In Southwestern Germany

Posted June 23, 2009:

• World's Oldest Known Granaries Predate Agriculture

Posted June 22, 2009:

• 54-Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals Early Evolution Of Primate Brains
• Social Competition May Be Reason For Bigger Brain
• Underground Cave Dating From The Year 1 A.D. Exposed In Jordan Valley

Posted June 18, 2009:

• Humans More Related To Orangutans Than Chimps, Study Suggests

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