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The Abuses of Prehistory
New Republic· 9 hours agoBy studying early humans (who were now allegedly accessible in the form of Indigenous people), scholars believed they could illuminate what qualities are...
No stupid questions: Should you take your pets camping?
T3 via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoHere, we examine the pros and cons—and the shoulds and shouldn'ts—of taking dogs and other animals...
What the Origins of Humanity Can and Can’t Tell Us
The New Yorker· 4 days agoThomas Henry Huxley, an enthusiastic Darwinian, viewed the fossils as proof that “we must extend by long epochs the most liberal estimate that has yet been made of the antiquity of Man.” That ...
Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age?
New York Times· 6 days agoNeanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought the first ...
Why Is This Happening? Inside the Trump courtroom with Lisa Rubin
MSNBC· 3 days agoIf you’ve been following the news at all, you’re aware that former president Donald Trump is on...
Scotland’s 10 greatest islands
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoScotland’s treasure trove of more than 800 islands – just under 100 inhabited – make up over 10 per cent of Europe’s coastline. There are hundreds of...
A First-of-Its-Kind Prehistoric Monument Is Found in France
Artnet News· 3 days agoResearchers from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) excavated a...
Future pandemics will have the same human causes as ancient outbreaks − lessons from anthropology...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn a forthcoming book, “Emerging Infections: Three Epidemiological Transitions from Prehistory to...
Ancient Maya Rituals Discovered Beneath Mexico’s Ballcourts
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoResearchers have discovered evidence of ceremonial offerings beneath a ballcourt in Mexico. For...
TikTok Is Obsessed with the Pick-Me Girl—Unfortunately, I Used to Be One
PureWow via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIn November, Billie Eilish accepted an award at a ceremony honoring Variety’s Power of Women. "It's...
