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  1. Archaeology - Science News

    4 days ago · The oldest known dice date back about 12,000 years in North America A study of ancient artifacts suggests Native American dice games began thousands of years earlier than previously …

  2. Archaeology’s top discoveries of 2024 include preserved brains and a ...

    Dec 17, 2024 · Archaeology’s top discoveries of 2024 include preserved brains and a lost city Preserved brains, arthritis in ancient Egypt and other finds made headlines

  3. 7 stone tools might rewrite the timeline of hominid migration in …

    Aug 6, 2025 · Stone tools unearthed on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that ancient human relatives arrived there between about 1 million and 1.5 million years ago — far earlier than previously ...

  4. Satellites are transforming how archaeologists study the past

    Aug 4, 2019 · In ‘Archaeology from Space,’ Sarah Parcak takes readers on a lively tour of the past, and archaeology of the 21st century.

  5. Anthropology - Science News

    4 days ago · Mosquitoes began biting humans more than a million years ago By Tom Metcalfe February 26, 2026 Archaeology

  6. The world’s oldest pants stitched together cultures from across Asia

    Feb 18, 2022 · This pair of approximately 3,000-year-old pants, the oldest ever found, displays weaving techniques and decorative patterns that were influenced by cultures across Asia, researchers say. M. …

  7. Ancient ‘megasites’ may reshape the history of the first cities

    Feb 19, 2020 · At least two ancient paths to urban development existed, some archaeologists argue.

  8. Ancient Site Holds Cannibalism Clues - Science News

    Jun 25, 2003 · An 800-year-old Anasazi site in Colorado yields contested evidence of cannibalism.

  9. Ancient humans used the moon as a calendar in the sky

    Jul 9, 2019 · Whether the moon was a timekeeper for early humans, as first argued during the Apollo missions, is still up for debate.

  10. Bones reveal what it was like to grow up dodo - Science News

    Aug 29, 2017 · Bones reveal what it was like to grow up dodo Cutting into precious bone specimens gives clues to the extinct birds’ life and times