Topic: Anthropology
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Remains of the earliest known feast in a cave in Israel show that humans have been bringing food to funerals for millennia and suggest that burial feasts may have helped shape modern society, researchers said on Monday. They found ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The remains of a prehistoric child were removed from an underwater cave in Mexico four years after divers stumbled upon the well-preserved corpse that offers clues to ancient human migration. The skeletal remains of the boy, dubbed the ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - James Bond may be in hock, but that doesn't mean the screenwriters of the last two 007 films aren't doing their usual globetrotting. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have been hired to write an action thriller about ...
In the mountains of central Nepal, two men with a young boy in tow take cows and goats to graze on verdant slopes, huddling under an umbrella when the summer showers come. At the village in the folds of a valley a ...
A massive tract of Borneo jungle, an area the size of Singapore, will soon disappear under the waters of the Bakun dam, a multi-billion-dollar project nearing completion after years of controversy. The dam, which forced thousands of indigenous people off their ancestral ...
Cross-border effort wins proper burial for Mexican Indian remains after 100 years in NY museumNorthern Mexico's Yaqui Indians buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York's American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of ...
In the language of the nomadic Penan there is no word for forest, it is simply their universe, and its destruction is snuffing out the ancient lifestyle of this tribe who are among the world's last hunter-gatherers. Wielding spears and dressed in ...
9 1/2-foot wide home, dubbed NYC's 'skinniest' house, on sale for a fat $2.7 millionIt's 9 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long and is billed as the narrowest house in New York City. But there's nothing small about its asking price: ...
Paris exhibit philosophizes over Tarzan _ noble savage, colonial apologist or eco-warrior?Tarzan is back! (Cue distinctive jungle yell.) But this time the vine-swinging hero is a topic of serious cultural and philosophical study at a Paris exhibition exploring his links with popular ...
Newly found Chinese pottery may be earliest ever found, researchers sayBits of pottery discovered in a cave in southern China may be evidence of the earliest development of ceramics by ancient people. The find in Yuchanyan Cave dates to as much as ...
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Iraq Artifacts
A Babylonian clay foundation cone, ca. 2100 BC, is displayed at the ...AP News - -
Mideast Jordan Antiquities
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Mideast Israel Palestinians Ancient Knives
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