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  Gendered Division Of Labor Gave Modern Humans Advantage Over Neanderthals

  December 4, 2006 — Diversified social roles for men, women and children may have given Homo sapiens an advantage over Neanderthals, says a new study in the December 2006 issue of Current Anthropology. The study argues ... > full story
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  Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Curse: Tablet To God Maglus Invokes Destruction Of Cloak-Pilferer

  November 30, 2006 — An ancient curse aimed at a thief is one of a number of treasures to be unveiled to the public for the first time, following the largest archaeological excavation the city of Leicester has ever ... > full story
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  World's Oldest Ritual Discovered -- Worshipped The Python 70,000 Years Ago

  November 30, 2006 — A new archaeological find in Botswana by an archaeologist from the University from Oslo shows that our ancestors in Africa engaged in ritual practice 70,000 years ago -- 30,000 years earlier than ... > full story
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  Synchrotron Reveals How Neanderthal Teeth Grew

  November 27, 2006 — Scientists from the United Kingdom, France and Italy have studied teeth from Neanderthals with X-rays from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). They found that the dental development ... > full story
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  Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Yields Surprising Results And Opens A New Door To Future Studies

  November 16, 2006 — The veil of mystery surrounding our extinct hominid cousins, the Neanderthals, has been at least partially lifted to reveal surprising results. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's ... > full story
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  Raiding For Women? Female Remains In Graveyards Reflect War In Pre-Hispanic New Mexico

  November 12, 2006 — An important new archaeological study from the December issue of Current Anthropology is the first to document interregional movement of women in the pre-Hispanic Southwest. Using an analysis of ... > full story
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  Varied Diet Of Early Hominid Casts Doubt On Extinction Theory

  November 9, 2006 — An upright hominid that lived side by side with direct ancestors of modern humans more than a million years ago had a far more diverse diet than once believed, clouding the notion that it was driven ... > full story
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  More Human-Neandertal Mixing Evidence Uncovered

  November 3, 2006 — A reexamination of ancient human bones from Romania reveals more evidence that humans and Neandertals interbred. Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., Washington University Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor in Arts ... > full story
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  Early Bronze Age Mortuary Complex Discovered In Syria

  October 25, 2006 — An ancient, untouched Syrian tomb that wowed the archaeological world on its discovery by Johns Hopkins University researchers nearly six years ago is not alone. Additional excavations have yielded a ... > full story
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  Comparing Chimp, Human DNA

  October 13, 2006 — Most of the big differences between human and chimpanzee DNA lie in regions that do not code for genes, according to a new study. Instead, they may contain DNA sequences that control how gene-coding ... > full story

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