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Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and its famous Moai statues
LiveScience· 4 hours agoRapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given to it by Europeans), is located in the southeast Pacific and is famous for its approximately 1,000...
Satellite imagery may provide a missing puzzle piece in Easter Island saga
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoNew research using satellite imagery and machine learning offers a fresh clue in the mystery of what...
New exhibition arriving at The Putnam Museum
KWQC-TV 6 Davenport· 1 hour ago“From inviting immigration to building the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River, railroads have brought diversity and vitality to our...
New coffee center in Northern California aims to give a jolt to research and education
San Francisco Chronicle· 7 hours agoA college in Northern California is now home to a center devoted to educating students and closely...
Thrift store vase is actually an ancient Mayan artifact
Boing Boing· 1 day ago"I saw this vase, and I assumed it was like a tourist reproduction," Dozier, who works as an...
Satellite imagery may provide a missing puzzle piece in Easter Island saga
CNN.com· 6 hours agoHundreds of monumental stone heads dot the coastline of the remote Pacific island of Rapa Nui, or...
Researcher of ancient Mayan human remains uncovers site used in male, twin sacrifices
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 4 days agoNPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Rodrigo Barquera, a researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, about a study revealing a surprise about ancient Mayan sacrifices.
Same-sex behavior among animals is being underreported, study finds
CNN.com· 7 hours agoSame-sex sexual behavior has been observed in more than 1,500 animal species, but a new study has...
Chimps helping scientists find plants that have potential to become medicines
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoDr Elodie Freymann, from the University of Oxford’s School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography,...
Embargoed: Easter Island Agriculture Q&A | Newswise
Newswise· 4 days agoDetails: Join this virtual Q&A with Carl P. Lipo, PhD, Binghamton University, to discuss the upcoming embargoed paper about Easter Island agricultural and anthropology research ...
