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Posted January 5, 2004:

• Professor Works To Unravel Mysteries Of Khipu: Colored, Knotted Strings Used By The Ancient Incas

Posted January 1, 2004:

• Scientist Challenges Interpretation Of New Find, The Oldest Primate Fossil Ever Discovered

Posted December 4, 2003:

• Ocean Currents Slow Adaptation Of Tree-dwelling Lizards, UCLA Study Finds; Research Sheds New Light On Island Evolution

Posted November 28, 2003:

• Vindication For Vinland Map: New Study Supports Authenticity

Posted November 17, 2003:

• Baboon Studies Reveal Pressures And Benefits Of Complex Social Societies

Posted November 11, 2003:

• Ancient Maya Stone Altar Recovered In Guatemala; Unparalleled Investigation Leads To Looters’ Haven And Arrests

Posted November 5, 2003:

• Stone Tool And Bone Find Earliest Ever Excavated

Posted November 3, 2003:

• Debate Heats Up On Role Of Climate In Human Evolution

Posted October 31, 2003:

• Scientists Find Evolution Of Life Helped Keep Earth Habitable

Posted October 20, 2003:

• Medieval Climate Not So Hot

Posted October 8, 2003:

• Prehistoric Footpaths In Costa Rica Indicate Intimate Ties With Villages, Cemeteries

Posted September 30, 2003:

• On The Antiquity Of Pots: New Method Developed For Dating Archaeological Pottery

Posted September 29, 2003:

• Early Andean Cultures Part Of Intensive Silver Industry; New Evidence Suggests Major Metallurgy Took Place Earlier Than Originally Believed

Posted September 24, 2003:

• Earliest European Modern Humans Found

Posted September 16, 2003:

• Archaeological Find Provides Insight Into Northeast 9,000 Years Ago

Posted August 20, 2003:

• Field Museum Archaeologists Discover Tomb Under Zapotec Residential Complex In Oaxaca, Mexico

Posted August 7, 2003:

• Early Hominids May Have Behaved More 'Human' Than We Had Thought

Posted June 30, 2003:

• Archaeologists, Students At UNC Painstakingly Dig, Discover Two Indian Settlements Key In U.S. History

Posted June 17, 2003:

• About Face: Washington University Anthropologist Sets The Record Straight Regarding Neandertal Facial Length

Posted June 12, 2003:

• 160,000-year-old Fossilized Skulls From Ethiopia Are Oldest Modern Humans

Posted May 28, 2003:

• Scientists Use DNA Fragments To Trace The Migration Of Modern Humans

Posted May 21, 2003:

• DNA Demands Chimps Be Grouped In The Human Genus, Say Wayne State Researchers

Posted April 25, 2003:

• Purdue Researchers Determine Age Of Fossilized Human Ancestor

Posted April 15, 2003:

• Scientists Find America’s Oldest Image Of A Deity; Icon Pushes Back Origin Of Religion In America 1,000 Years

Posted April 11, 2003:

• Widespread Cannibalism May Have Caused Prehistoric Prion Disease Epidemics, Science Study Suggests

Posted April 7, 2003:

• Despite Male Image, Stone Toolmaking Also Done By Women, University Of Florida Scientists Say

Posted April 2, 2003:

• Fossil Teeth Reveal Oldest Bushbabies, Lorises

Posted February 24, 2003:

• Rutgers' Tanzanian Fossil Reshuffles The Deck On Early Human Ancestry

Posted February 20, 2003:

• New Age For Mungo Man, New Human History

Posted January 24, 2003:

• Prehistoric Tusks Point To Earliest Fossil Evidence Of Differences Between Sexes

Posted January 2, 2003:

• Scholar Develops New System For Overlooked Wares Of Ancient Greece

Posted December 26, 2002:

• Did Early Humans Mate With The Locals? Human Genome Data Cast Doubt On "Replacement Theory" Of Human Evolution

Posted December 23, 2002:

• Archaeological Dig Resumes In Egypt -- And Online

Posted December 9, 2002:

• Scientists Find Earliest "New World" Writings In Mexico

Posted December 6, 2002:

• New Theory Explains Economic Growth In Terms Of Evolutionary Biology

Posted December 4, 2002:

• Revolutionary New Theory For Origins Of Life On Earth

Posted November 1, 2002:

• Health Of American Indians On Decline Before Columbus Arrived In New World

Posted October 29, 2002:

• Ceremonial Burial At Moon Pyramid Shows Teotihuacan Rulers Had Mayan Connection

Posted September 23, 2002:

• Casket Resurrects New Vision Of Ancient Jerusalem

Posted September 11, 2002:

• Overlapping Genetic And Archaeological Evidence Suggests Neolithic Migration

Posted August 15, 2002:

• Scientist Says Ostrich Study Confirms Bird "Hands" Unlike Those Of Dinosaurs

Posted August 2, 2002:

• Retroviruses Shows That Human-Specific Variety Developed When Humans, Chimps Diverged

Posted August 1, 2002:

• The Prehistory Of Neotropical Lowland Forests

Posted July 24, 2002:

• Muddy Mayan Mystery Made Clearer By Researchers Working In The Bajos; Findings In Belize And Guatamela Show How Maya Drastically Changed Local Environments

Posted July 23, 2002:

• Dust In "Earth's Attic" Could Hold Evidence Of Planet's Earliest Life

Posted July 5, 2002:

• Large Brains Not Required? Third And Smallest Skull Of "First Eurasians" Reported In Science

Posted June 26, 2002:

• UC San Diego Archaeologists Discover Largest Bronze Age Metal Factory In Middle East

Posted May 24, 2002:

• Nut-Cracking Chimps: First Primate Archaeological Dig Uncovers New Tool Development Links

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