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Posted April 8, 2011:

• Scientists Make Bamboo Tools to Test Theory Explaining East Asia's Stone Age Tool Scarcity

Posted April 7, 2011:

• iPad Helps Archaeologists
• Sand Drift in Norway Caused by Sea-Level Changes and Human Activity

Posted March 31, 2011:

• Green Toad Inhabited Iberian Peninsula One Million Years Ago

Posted March 30, 2011:

• 'Death Anxiety' Prompts People to Believe in Intelligent Design, Reject Evolution, Study Suggests

Posted March 28, 2011:

• Why Ancient Mayan Communities Were 'Living on the Edge' of What Is Now a Massive Wetland

Posted March 24, 2011:

• Artifacts in Texas Predate Clovis Culture by 2,500 Years, New Study Shows

Posted March 23, 2011:

• Basketry from Peru's Huaca Prieta

Posted March 21, 2011:

• Native Americans Modified American Landscape Years Prior to Arrival of Europeans

Posted March 17, 2011:

• A New Evolutionary History of Primates
• Human Prejudice Has Ancient Evolutionary Roots

Posted March 14, 2011:

• Neanderthals Were Nifty at Controlling Fire

Posted March 12, 2011:

• Atlantis Found? Film Highlights Professor’s Efforts to Locate Fabled Lost City

Posted March 10, 2011:

• Anthropologists Link Human Uniqueness to Hunter-Gatherer Group Structure

Posted March 9, 2011:

• Missing DNA Helps Make Us Human

Posted March 7, 2011:

• Stone Tools Influenced Hand Evolution in Human Ancestors, Anthropologists Say

Posted March 3, 2011:

• California Islands Give Up Evidence of Early Seafaring: Numerous Artifacts Found at Late Pleistocene Sites on the Channel Islands

Posted February 28, 2011:

• Function of 'Junk DNA' in Human Genes

Posted February 24, 2011:

• Homoplasy: A Good Thread to Pull to Understand the Evolutionary Ball of Yarn
• Discovery of Oldest Northern North American Human Remains Provides New Insights Into Ice-Age Culture

Posted February 22, 2011:

• Origins of Farming in Europe Result of Human Migration and Cultural Change, Study Suggests

Posted February 20, 2011:

• Archaeologist Models Past and Future Landscapes
• Skin Color: Handy Tool for Teaching Evolution?

Posted February 17, 2011:

• Subtle Shifts, Not Major Sweeps, Drove Human Evolution
• First Skyscraper Was a Monument to Intimidation: How Jericho's 11,000-Year-Old 'Cosmic' Tower Came Into Being

Posted February 14, 2011:

• Earliest Humans Not So Different from Us, Research Suggests
• Ancient Mesoamerican Sculpture Uncovered in Southern Mexico

Posted February 11, 2011:

• Quest for Extinct Giant Rats Leads Scientists to Ancient Face Carvings

Posted February 10, 2011:

• New View of Human Evolution? 3.2 Million-Year-Old Fossil Foot Bone Supports Humanlike Bipedalism in Lucy's Species
• Foot Bone Suggests Lucy's Kin Had Arched Foot, for Walking

Posted February 9, 2011:

• Simple Marine Worms Distantly Related to Humans
• Ancient Teeth Raise New Questions About Origins of Modern Humans

Posted February 3, 2011:

• Genetic Study Uncovers New Path to Polynesia

Posted February 2, 2011:

• Anthropologists Discover Earliest Cemetery in Middle East

Posted January 31, 2011:

• Newly Discovered Dinosaur Likely Father of Triceratops

Posted January 27, 2011:

• Climatic Fluctuations in Last 2,500 Years Linked to Social Upheavals

Posted January 26, 2011:

• Genetic Archaeology Finds Parts of Human Genome More Closely Related to Orangutans Than Chimps
• Ancient Body Clock Discovered That Helps Keep All Living Things on Time
• Orangutan DNA More Diverse Than Human's, Remarkably Stable Through the Ages
• Genome Analysis Outlines Variations in Orangutans of Borneo, Sumatra

Posted January 19, 2011:

• Mathematical Model Explains How Complex Societies Emerge, Collapse

Posted January 13, 2011:

• New Evidence for Climate Impacts on Ancient Societies

Posted January 11, 2011:

• Longevity Unlikely to Have Factored Into the Extinction of Neanderthals
• Chemical Analysis Confirms Discovery of Oldest Wine-Making Equipment Ever Found
• Effective Use of Power in the Bronze Age Societies of Central Europe

Posted January 6, 2011:

• Lice DNA Study Shows Humans First Wore Clothes 170,000 Years Ago

Posted January 3, 2011:

• A Toast to History: 500 Years of Wine-Drinking Cups Mark Social Shifts in Ancient Greece

Posted December 30, 2010:

• Was Israel the Birthplace of Modern Humans?

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