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Posted December 17, 2008:

• Ancestral History Explains Roots Of Income Inequality

Posted December 16, 2008:

• Rare Lead Bars Discovered Off The Coast Of Ibiza May Be Carthaginian Munitions

Posted December 15, 2008:

• Predecessor of Cows, The Aurochs, Were Still Living In The Netherlands Around AD 600
• 4,000-Year-Old Amber Necklace Has Been Unearthed In England

Posted December 13, 2008:

• Iron Age 'Sacrifice' Is Britain's Oldest Surviving Brain

Posted December 10, 2008:

• Unique Archaeological Discovery In Balkan: World’s First Illyrian Trading Post Found

Posted December 7, 2008:

• Climate Change Wiped Out Cave Bears 13 Millennia Earlier Than Thought

Posted December 6, 2008:

• Decline Of Roman And Byzantine Empires 1,400 Years Ago May Have Been Driven By Climate Change

Posted November 30, 2008:

• New Excavations Strengthen Identification Of Herod’s Grave At Herodium

Posted November 19, 2008:

• Funerary Monument Reveals Iron Age Belief That The Soul Lived In The Stone

Posted November 18, 2008:

• World's Earliest Nuclear Family Found

Posted November 17, 2008:

• Anthropologist Assembles And Copies Skeleton Of Extinct Lemur

Posted November 14, 2008:

• Small Islands Given Short Shrift In Assembling Archaeological Record

Posted November 11, 2008:

• Gold Earring 2,000 Years Old Discovered In Excavations In Jerusalem

Posted November 7, 2008:

• Epic Voyage To Discover Origins And Migration Routes Of Ancestors Of Ancient Polynesians And Their Animals
• Ancient China: Lack Of Rainfall Could Have Contributed To Social Upheaval And Fall Of Dynasties

Posted November 5, 2008:

• Skeleton Of 12,000-Year-Old Shaman Discovered Buried With Leopard, 50 Tortoises And Human Foot

Posted November 3, 2008:

• Earliest Known Hebrew Text In Proto-Canaanite Script Discovered In Area Where 'David Slew Goliath'

Posted October 30, 2008:

• Significant Fossil Discovery In Utah Shows Land Plants Of 200 Million Years Ago

Posted October 28, 2008:

• Fire Out Of Africa: A Key To The Migration Of Prehistoric Humans
• King Solomon's Copper Mines?

Posted October 22, 2008:

• Study Of Polar Dinosaur Migration Questions Whether Dinosaurs Were Truly The First Great Migrators

Posted October 21, 2008:

• Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Governor's Palace In Turkey

Posted October 15, 2008:

• 2 Ears Struck Off: 12 Marks In Payment

Posted October 14, 2008:

• Archaeological Dig Uncovers Roman Mystery

Posted October 1, 2008:

• New Life Found In Ancient Tombs

Posted September 24, 2008:

• Iberian Peninsula’s Earliest Agricultural Systems Were Unsustainable

Posted September 17, 2008:

• Roman York Skeleton Could Be Early TB Victim

Posted September 9, 2008:

• Childbirth Was Already Difficult For Neanderthals

Posted September 5, 2008:

• DNA Shows That Last Woolly Mammoths Had North American Roots

Posted September 4, 2008:

• Tutankhamen Fathered Twins, Mummified Fetuses Suggest

Posted August 29, 2008:

• 'Pristine' Amazonian Region Hosted Large, Urban Civilization

Posted August 25, 2008:

• Archaeologists Lift Lid On Rare Roman Find

Posted August 15, 2008:

• Stone Age Graveyard Reveals Lifestyles Of A 'Green Sahara'

Posted August 12, 2008:

• Humans Implicated In Prehistoric Animal Extinctions With New Evidence

Posted August 11, 2008:

• Roman Temple Uncovered In Ancient Jewish Capital Of Galilee

Posted August 5, 2008:

• Genetic Evidence Used To Trace Ancient African Migration

Posted July 31, 2008:

• First Indication For Embalming In Roman Greece

Posted July 30, 2008:

• 'Chicken And Chips' Theory Of Pacific Migration

Posted July 21, 2008:

• Horse Racecourse In Ancient Olympia Discovered After 1600 Years
• Athapaskan Migration To Southwest U.S. Illuminated With Y Chromosome Study
• Archaeologists Trace Early Irrigation Farming In Ancient Yemen

Posted July 17, 2008:

• First Humans To Settle Americas Came From Europe, Not From Asia Over Bering Strait Land-Ice Bridge, New Research Suggests

Posted July 15, 2008:

• Excavated Jericho Bones May Help Israeli-Palestinian-German Team Combat Tuberculosis

Posted July 5, 2008:

• Music Went With Cave Art In Prehistoric Caves

Posted July 3, 2008:

• Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana

Posted July 2, 2008:

• Archaeologists Find Silos And Administration Center From Early Egyptian City

Posted June 27, 2008:

• Pumice As A Time Witness

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