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archaeology

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Ancient footprints show children splashed in puddles 11,500 years ago

A set of ancient footprints seems to show children splashing around in water that had pooled in tracks left by a now-extinct ground sloth

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RCHDGR . Die Pithecanthropus-Schichten auf Java. Geologische und palaontologische Ergebnisse der Trinil-Expedition (1907 und 1908), ausgefuhrt mit Unterstutzung der Akademischen Jubilaumsstiftung der Stadt Berlin und der Koniglich bayerischen Akademi der Wissenschaften. Geology; Paleontology; Homo erectus. Sdenka-Trinu-Expedition. Tafel III.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Selenka, Lenore; Blanckenhorn, Max Ludwig

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Fate of buried Java Man revealed in unseen notes from Homo erectus dig

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Celsus Library in ancient city Ephesus

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AI can help historians restore ancient texts from damaged inscriptions

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Chinese Goose

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Geese may have been the first birds to be domesticated 7000 years ago

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Moais of Ahu Tongariki

Environment

Easter Islanders relied on freshwater springs under the sea to survive

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Sabratha in Libya

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Over 190 African heritage sites threatened by rising seas this century

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View of the excavations at the entrance of Grotte Mandrin

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Modern humans moved into cave one year after Neanderthals abandoned it

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Equid burial

Life

Hybrid animal in 4500-year-old tomb is earliest known bred by humans

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Anadenanthera colubrina is the one tree species common to nearly all regions of South American seasonally dry tropical forests and woodlands (SDTFs). Its abundant fruits each of which is laterally flat and which bear many lenticular seeds, trunk and main stems with a tuberculate cortex, and extra floral nectaries positioned near the base of the leaf rachis distinguish this species.

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Ancient Andean leaders may have mixed hallucinogen with their beer

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The god Anubis and a mummy

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Ancient Egyptian mummy of a young girl is first with a bandaged wound

The ancient Egyptians were adept at bandaging dead bodies during the mummification process, but we have had no evidence of the way they dressed flesh wounds until now  

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The mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I has been digitally unwrapped

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Bronze Age migration may have brought Celtic languages to Britain

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People occupied the Faroe Islands 300 years earlier than we thought

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Ancient Egyptian elites used a thick beer porridge in their ceremonies

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