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A space for anthropologists to share their work. A place for everyone to be enriched by it. Submit your videos & blogs to: https://teapaw.org/t.co/IDDGbgxvlR

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3 Brothers From #Baghdad and Their Remarkable 9th-Century Book of Inventions A prescient relic of the Islamic Golden Age. atlasobscura.com/articles/bo…
3 Brothers From Baghdad and Their Remarkable 9th-Century Book of Inventions

3 Brothers From Baghdad and Their Remarkable 9th-Century Book of Inventions

A prescient relic of the Islamic Golden Age.

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Medieval skeleton found with rare, expensive blue ink embedded in teeth, could rewrite women's history usatoday.com/story/news/worl…
Medieval skeleton found with rare, expensive blue ink embedded in teeth, could rewrite women's...

Medieval skeleton found with rare, expensive blue ink embedded in teeth, could rewrite women's...

The skeleton of a woman, believed to be from the 11th or early 12th century, may have had one of the most important jobs of her day.

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Mechanical beasts and where to find them economist.com/books-and-arts…

Mechanical beasts and where to find them

As with so much else in life, the Greeks got to AI first

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The Incredible Cloth Womb Of 18th Century Midwife Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray - Flashbak flashbak.com/the-incredible-…
The Incredible Cloth Womb Of 18th Century Midwife Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray -...

The Incredible Cloth Womb Of 18th Century Midwife Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray -...

To combat high infant mortality rates and teach young mothers about giving birth in the 18th Century, midwife Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray (1712-1790) created this fantastic full-size...

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4,000-yr-old Tablet is the World’s Oldest Customer Service Complaint thevintagenews.com/2018/11/1…
4,000-yr-old Tablet is the World’s Oldest Customer Service Complaint | The Vintage News

4,000-yr-old Tablet is the World’s Oldest Customer Service Complaint | The Vintage News

In ancient Mesopotamia, people lived, worked, and spent time with their families just as we do today. They also had everyday problems, and clay tablets

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How Did We Get to Be Human? A summary nytimes.com/2018/11/19/scien…
How Did We Get to Be Human? (Published 2018)

How Did We Get to Be Human? (Published 2018)

Evolution did not draw a straight line from early hominins to modern humans. At one point, we shared the planet with a number of near-relatives.

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Skulls reveal #Neanderthals, humans had similarly harsh lives apnews.com/406de28a7e8f4bd99…

Skulls reveal Neanderthals, humans had similarly harsh lives

NEW YORK (AP) — Life as a Neanderthal was no picnic, but a new analysis says it was no more dangerous than what our own species faced in ancient times.

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In Cave in Borneo Jungle, Scientists Find Oldest Figurative Painting in the World - at least 40,000 years old nytimes.com/2018/11/07/scien…

In Cave in Borneo Jungle, Scientists Find Oldest Figurative Painting in the World (Published 2018)

A cave drawing in Borneo is at least 40,000 years old, raising intriguing questions about creativity in ancient societies.

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What Can a #Linguist Learn From a #Gravestone? atlasobscura.com/articles/gr…
What Can a Linguist Learn From a Gravestone?

What Can a Linguist Learn From a Gravestone?

Plenty, it turns out.

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From Ancient Egypt to today, these women rule the world nationalgeographic.com/cultu…
From Ancient Egypt to today, these women rule the world

From Ancient Egypt to today, these women rule the world

Queens today have their ancient Egyptian counterparts to thank for paving the way to positions of power.

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Paleontologists Are Still Digging Into the Origins of the ‘Chinese Pompeii’ atlasobscura.com/articles/fo…

Paleontologists Are Still Digging Into the Origins of the 'Chinese Pompeii'

What we know (and what we don't) about the Jehol Biota.

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Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth. Now scholars are making a color correction. newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture

The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture

For centuries, Westerners have been engaged in an act of collective blindness.

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10 great #Halloween celebrations in the U.S. nationalgeographic.com/trave…
10 Great Halloween Celebrations in the United States

10 Great Halloween Celebrations in the United States

Rather than fade into the history books, Halloween has only gained in popularity in the United States. Communities across the country mark the occasion with spirited parades, elaborate costumes,...

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Mount Athos, a Male-Only Holy Retreat, Is Ruffled by Tourists and Russia nytimes.com/2018/10/20/world…

Mount Athos, a Male-Only Holy Retreat, Is Ruffled by Tourists and Russia (Published 2018)

The monks on an isolated peninsula in Greece have followed the same way of life for more than 1,000 years, but an Athens vs. Moscow diplomatic spat and a tourism onslaught are unsettling its habits.

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A New Museum Opens Old Wounds in Germany nytimes.com/2018/10/12/arts/…

A New Museum Opens Old Wounds in Germany (Published 2018)

The Humboldt Forum, set to open in 2019, was meant to show Germany as confident and open to the world. But it has ignited a debate about the past.

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Their Land Defiled in Indonesia, Forest People Adjust to Life on Concrete nytimes.com/2018/10/14/world…
Their Land Defiled, Forest People Swap Flower Worship for Quran and Concrete (Published 2018)

Their Land Defiled, Forest People Swap Flower Worship for Quran and Concrete (Published 2018)

Indigenous forest people of the Indonesian island of Sumatra have been pushed from their land and away from their gods by timber, rubber, paper and palm oil plantations. Many have converted to Islam.

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It's possible that beer even came before bread. Evidence of the Oldest #Beer Ever Brewed atlasobscura.com/articles/ol…
Found: Evidence of the Oldest Beer Ever Brewed

Found: Evidence of the Oldest Beer Ever Brewed

It's possible that beer even came before bread.

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Oldest Known Drawing by Human Hands Discovered in South African Cave nytimes.com/2018/09/12/scien…
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