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Ancient Maya Buried Relatives, Artifacts Under Homes

April, 21 2010

Discovery News

An excavation of ancient Maya homes belonging to lower class families revealed they buried relatives and artifacts under their own floors. Illiterate Maya people buried family items and even relatives under their homes as a way of recording their histories.

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Archaeologists discover ancient Kuskokwim home

April, 21 2010

Anchorage Daily News

An ancient tool uncovered at the Annjurak archaeological site near Crooked Creek, along the Kuskokwim River. Archaeologists doing a land survey for the proposed Donlin Creek gold mine have found a 2,000 year old home site along the Kuskokwim River that included a variety of tools, reports The Sun Star, the student newspaper at UAF.

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More on Gigantic scorpion fossil found in Fife

April, 21 2010

BBC

The groove was made by the tail of the animal as it dragged over the sand A cast is being made of tracks left by a two metre long ancient animal in north east Fife.

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Ancient Greek Coin Hoards exhibition in Athens

April, 21 2010

ANA

Ancient Greek Coin Hoards exhibition in Athens The Athens Numismatic Museum is hosting a temporary exhibition titled "Found underneath a tree root Ancient Greek Coin Hoards", which opens Tuesday and will run through December 31.

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More on Neanderthals may have interbred with humans twice

April, 21 2010

PhysOrg

Homo neanderthalensis, adult male Extinct human species such as Neanderthals may still be with us, at least in our DNA, and this may help explain why they disappeared from the fossil record around 30,000 years ago.

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Ancient Worms Munched on Whale Bones

April, 21 2010

FOXNews

Some 30 million years ago, alien looking worms bored into the bones of a whale carcass. Now, for the first time scientists have discovered the whale fossils riddled with boreholes.

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Ancient stones found in Devon

April, 20 2010

The Guardian

Panoramic outlook from Bonehill Rocks on Dartmoor. Archaeologist Tom Greeves, who made the discovery at Cut Hill, believes the implications for what else may be buried beneath Dartmoor are massive. Archaeologists revealed today what they believe is a "spectacular" monument hundreds of years older than Stonehenge on one of the most remote peaks on Dartmoor in Devon.

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Ancient Hominids Had Humanlike Grip

April, 20 2010

Discovery News

Orrorin's humanlike thumb calls into question a long-standing assumption that 1.8-million-year-old hand fossils from Homo habilis represent the earliest transition to a precision grip. Hominids may have evolved thumbs long before they figured out how to make tools.

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The taming of pigs: DNA sheds light on farming

April, 20 2010

Los Angeles Times

Today's swine in China are traced back 8,000 years to the same region, revealing clues about animal husbandry and human migration.

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330 million year old scorpion discovery of global significance

April, 20 2010

The Caledonian Mercury

Gigantic scorpions used to roam Fife, according to a unique fossil find by scientists. Footprints preserved in a rock show that huge six legged monsters lumbered across the swamps of the kingdom some 330 million years ago.