The Oldest Weapon Discovered in North America is a 15,000-Year-Old Spearhead
(via Popular Mechanics) The weapon has archaeologists rethinking America’s earliest settlers.
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Meet the 90-Year-Old Armchair Archaeologist
(via Great Big Story) Space archaeologist Sarah Parcak analyzes satellite imagery in order to find ancient sites hidden from view.
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Top 10 Rare And Large Greek Archaeological Discoveries
(via Listverse) Ancient Greece is undoubtedly one of the most impressive pages in history. The sheer complexity and length of
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Artifacts found while building subway systems
(via Grunge) If you dream of archaeological glory, you could either run out and buy yourself a fedora and a bullwhip,
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Found: A 5,000-Year-Old Toy Chariot
(via Atlas Obscura) Kids have been playing with miniature vehicles since the Bronze Age.
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Almost Edible, 106-Year-Old Fruitcake Found in Antarctica
(via Atlas Obscura) It’s not that uncommon re-finding forgotten holiday fruitcake months after the event. More surprising, though, is when
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8 Amazing Things Uncovered by Melting Glaciers and Ice
(via mental_floss) As the climate warms, ice patches, glaciers, and permafrosts across the world have begun to give up their
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Found: A Wealthy Roman Neighborhood in France, Preserved Under Ash
(via Atlas Obscura) Hundreds of years ago, in the late 1st century A.D., this neighborhood near the Rhône River, in what’s
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What Fourth-Grade Archaeologists Have Found in Their School’s Closet
(via Atlas Obscura) When a fidgeting fourth grader in Miriam Sicherman’s class at Manhattan’s Children’s Workshop School started pulling up
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Egypt Discovers New Necropolis With 17 Mummies in Minya
(via Popular Mechanics) An Egyptian archaeological mission has found a necropolis holding at least 17 mummies near the Nile Valley
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How Do We Know When A Hunk Of Rock Is Actually A Stone Tool?
(via FiveThirty Eight) The archaeologists who study lithic technologies — “stone tools” to us lay primates — are used to
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A Record Amount of Mammoth Bones Was Unearthed in Siberia
(via Atlas Obscura) This past summer, paleontologists from Siberia’s Tomsk State University took a pilgrimage to Mamontovoye Village, armed with
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