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3,000-Year-Old Skeletons, Believed To Be Human Sacrifices, Found In Peru
A research team found the skeletal remains near what is thought to be a ritual temple of the Cupisnique culture, a civilization that thrived more than a millennium before the Incas.
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6,000-Year-Old Skeletons Have Distinctive DNA With No Link To Modern Humans
The ancient human skeletons date from 500 to 6,000 years ago.
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7,100-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals Unknown Human Lineage in China
A groundbreaking study of a 7,100-year-old skeleton found in Yunnan, China, has revealed a "ghost" human lineage previously known only through genetic inference. The woman, named Xingyi_EN, belonged to a deeply divergent group called the Basal Asian Xingyi lineage, which may have contributed to modern Tibetan ancestry. This discovery, along with ev...
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Skeletons Reveal Ancient Teenagers Experienced Puberty Similar to Modern Teens, Study Finds
Recent research has revealed that teenagers who lived between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago, during the Ice Age, went through puberty at roughly the same age as modern teens. An international team of archaeologists, led by Mary Lewis, a bioarchaeologist from the University of Reading, studied the skeletal remains of 13 adolescents from various archae...
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Oldest Known Human Viruses Discovered In 50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones
Genetic analysis of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal skeletons has uncovered the remnants of three viruses related to modern human pathogens.
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Ancient Humans Followed A Trend That Is Still Prevalent: Archaeologists
Stone ornaments found around the mouths and ears of skeletons at an 11,000-year-old burial site in southeast Turkey prove that humans have been piercing their bodies since prehistoric times and thinking about self-image, archaeologists said.
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14 Skeletons Found In Ruined 5,000-Year-Old Neolithic Tomb In Scotland
In a 5,000-year-old tomb, archaeologists have uncovered the skeletal remains of 14 individuals, including men, women, and children.
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Scientists Discover 31,000-Year-Old Skeleton With Amputated Leg: Research
A team of scientists has unearthed a 31,000-year-old human skeleton with a part of its lower left leg surgically amputated.
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Museum to Display 6,500-Year-Old Human Skeleton
The public will soon get to see an ancient human skeleton recently rediscovered in a Philadelphia museum's storage room.
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Museum to Display 6,500-Year-Old Human Skeleton
The public will soon get to see an ancient human skeleton recently rediscovered in a Philadelphia museum's storage room.
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South African scientists find most complete pre-human skeleton
South African scientists today claimed to have uncovered the most complete skeleton yet of an ancient relative of man, hidden in a rock excavated from an archaeological site three years ago. The remains of a juvenile hominid skeleton, of the newly identified Australopithecus (southern ape) sediba species, are the "most complete early human ancestor...
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3,000-Year-Old Skeletons, Believed To Be Human Sacrifices, Found In Peru
A research team found the skeletal remains near what is thought to be a ritual temple of the Cupisnique culture, a civilization that thrived more than a millennium before the Incas.
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6,000-Year-Old Skeletons Have Distinctive DNA With No Link To Modern Humans
The ancient human skeletons date from 500 to 6,000 years ago.
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7,100-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals Unknown Human Lineage in China
A groundbreaking study of a 7,100-year-old skeleton found in Yunnan, China, has revealed a "ghost" human lineage previously known only through genetic inference. The woman, named Xingyi_EN, belonged to a deeply divergent group called the Basal Asian Xingyi lineage, which may have contributed to modern Tibetan ancestry. This discovery, along with ev...
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Skeletons Reveal Ancient Teenagers Experienced Puberty Similar to Modern Teens, Study Finds
Recent research has revealed that teenagers who lived between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago, during the Ice Age, went through puberty at roughly the same age as modern teens. An international team of archaeologists, led by Mary Lewis, a bioarchaeologist from the University of Reading, studied the skeletal remains of 13 adolescents from various archae...
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Oldest Known Human Viruses Discovered In 50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones
Genetic analysis of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal skeletons has uncovered the remnants of three viruses related to modern human pathogens.
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Ancient Humans Followed A Trend That Is Still Prevalent: Archaeologists
Stone ornaments found around the mouths and ears of skeletons at an 11,000-year-old burial site in southeast Turkey prove that humans have been piercing their bodies since prehistoric times and thinking about self-image, archaeologists said.
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14 Skeletons Found In Ruined 5,000-Year-Old Neolithic Tomb In Scotland
In a 5,000-year-old tomb, archaeologists have uncovered the skeletal remains of 14 individuals, including men, women, and children.
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Scientists Discover 31,000-Year-Old Skeleton With Amputated Leg: Research
A team of scientists has unearthed a 31,000-year-old human skeleton with a part of its lower left leg surgically amputated.
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Museum to Display 6,500-Year-Old Human Skeleton
The public will soon get to see an ancient human skeleton recently rediscovered in a Philadelphia museum's storage room.
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Museum to Display 6,500-Year-Old Human Skeleton
The public will soon get to see an ancient human skeleton recently rediscovered in a Philadelphia museum's storage room.
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South African scientists find most complete pre-human skeleton
South African scientists today claimed to have uncovered the most complete skeleton yet of an ancient relative of man, hidden in a rock excavated from an archaeological site three years ago. The remains of a juvenile hominid skeleton, of the newly identified Australopithecus (southern ape) sediba species, are the "most complete early human ancestor...
