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What Do You Get When You Put a Mummy Through a CT Scan?

New York Times 03 Feb 2026

Experts are using high-res scanners and 3-D printers to illuminate ancient ailments and injuries ... .

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A human tendency to value expertise, not just sheer power, explains how some social hierarchies form

Idaho Press-Tribune 03 Feb 2026

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) ... .

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Aerial lidar mapping can reveal archaeological sites while overlooking Indigenous peoples and their knowledge

The Facts 02 Feb 2026

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Even when people’s rights are ignored, understanding the law can keep protesters engaged

Caledonian Record 29 Jan 2026

When protesters experience repression and violence, whether or not they have legal education can help determine continued involvement in a protest movement ....

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Book Review: ‘Island at the Edge of the World,’ by Mike Pitts

New York Times 27 Jan 2026

In his “Island at the Edge of the World,” the British archaeologist Mike Pitts delves into the misconceptions and legends surrounding a complex ancient culture ... .

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Identifying dinosaurs from their footprints is difficult – but AI can help

The Conversation 27 Jan 2026

When you hear the word “dinosaur”, the first thing that might spring to mind is a hulking skeleton like Sue the T rex in Chicago’s Field Museum or Sophie the Stegosaurus at the Natural History Museum in London ... That prize goes to dinosaur footprints ... .

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Greenland’s Inuit have spent decades fighting for self-determination

The Eagle-Tribune 27 Jan 2026

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) ... .

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430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found

New York Times 26 Jan 2026

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought ... .

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SLU Professor's Book On Underground Urbanism Earns Major Anthropology Awards (Saint Louis University)

Public Technologies 23 Jan 2026

) SLU Professor's Book On Underground Urbanism Earns Major Anthropology Awards ... Bruce O'Neill, Ph.D., professor of sociology and anthropology, has earned recognition for his book, Underground ... Douglas Prize in Europeanist Anthropology.

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This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world's oldest human-made art

Ars Technica 23 Jan 2026

The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago ... Adhi Oktaviana examines a slightly more recent hand stencil on the wall of Liang Metanduno. Credit. Oktaviana et al. 2026 ... Comments .

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A 67,800-Year-Old Handprint May Be the World’s Oldest Rock Art

New York Times 22 Jan 2026

“It was hiding in plain sight all this time,” one researcher said ... .

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Iran’s universities have long been a battleground, where protests happen and students fight for the future

The Huntsville Item 20 Jan 2026

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What a bear attack in a remote valley in Nepal tells us about the problem ...

Hastings Tribune 20 Jan 2026

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‘We got lazy and complacent’: Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country

The Conversation 19 Jan 2026

As part of my anthropological research into the social relationships that different tax systems produce, I have been working with pensioners in the southern suburbs of Sweden’s capital, Stockholm, to ...

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Gabriel Barkay, 81, Dies; His Discoveries Revised Biblical History

New York Times 17 Jan 2026

One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier than historians had thought ... .

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What Do You Get When You Put a Mummy Through a CT Scan?

A human tendency to value expertise, not just sheer power, explains how some social hierarchies form

Aerial lidar mapping can reveal archaeological sites while overlooking Indigenous peoples and their knowledge

Even when people’s rights are ignored, understanding the law can keep protesters engaged

Book Review: ‘Island at the Edge of the World,’ by Mike Pitts

Identifying dinosaurs from their footprints is difficult – but AI can help

Greenland’s Inuit have spent decades fighting for self-determination

430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found

SLU Professor's Book On Underground Urbanism Earns Major Anthropology Awards (Saint Louis University)

This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world's oldest human-made art

A 67,800-Year-Old Handprint May Be the World’s Oldest Rock Art

Iran’s universities have long been a battleground, where protests happen and students fight for the future

What a bear attack in a remote valley in Nepal tells us about the problem ...

‘We got lazy and complacent’: Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country

Gabriel Barkay, 81, Dies; His Discoveries Revised Biblical History

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