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Injuries from medieval arrows just as horrific as gunshot wounds

May 7, 2020

Bones exhumed from a Dominican Friary in Exeter has revealed that arrows fired from a longbow caused injuries as deadly as modern-day gunshot wounds.

Anthropology

Deformed skulls in an ancient cemetery reveal a multicultural community in transition

April 30, 2020

The ancient cemetery of Mözs-Icsei d?l? in present-day Hungary holds clues to a unique community formation during the beginnings of Europe's Migration Period.

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Examining heart extractions in ancient Mesoamerica

April 24, 2020

Sacrificial rituals featuring human heart extraction were a prevalent religious practice throughout ancient Mesoamerican societies.

Anthropology

Brain surgery was conducted in Eastern Roman Empire

April 8, 2020

New research from Adelphi University has revealed the first forensically-assessed archeological discovery of remains of a group of domineering mounted archer-lancers and their kin of the Eastern Roman Empire from the turbulent ProtoByzantine period, which spanned the fourth to seventh centuries.

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What chemical analyzes of human bones tell us about kitchen utensils in the Middle Ages

March 19, 2020

Clay pots? Wooden spoons? Copper pots? Silver forks? What materials has man used for making kitchen utensils throughout history? A new study now sheds light on the use of kitchen utensils made of copper.

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Task sharing in hunters-gatherers does not depend on the capacities of each gender

March 10, 2020

In current hunter-gatherer groups, women usually transport greater loads than men, therefore some scientists had indicated they were energetically more efficient when performing these tasks.

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Your back pain may be due to evolution and spine shape

March 9, 2020

The cause of back pain can be linked to humanity's evolutionary past, according to new research from a team of bioarchaeologists at Simon Fraser University, the University of Liverpool, and the University of Sydney.

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Bones of the victims at Roman Herculaneum

March 2, 2020

Are human remains the archaeology of death or the archaeology of life? This strange paradox stated in Pearson (1999), addresses that the surviving bones, tissues and skin are more likely to reveal information about a person’s life, not a person’s death.

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Hunter-gatherers facilitated a cultural revolution through small social networks

March 2, 2020

Hunter-gatherer ancestors, from around 300,000 years ago, facilitated a cultural revolution by developing ideas in small social networks, and regularly drawing on knowledge from neighbouring camps.

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