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25,000-Year-Old Teeth Show Habitual Betel-Nut Use on Sulawesi

Laboratory receptor tests with chemical residue analysis tie the unusual tooth wear to repeated betel-nut ingestion, placing routine plant drug use tens of thousands of years before farming.

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Proteins Confirm Rich Denisovan Fossils and Tools at Bianfu Cave

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Exceptional Pacific Mastodon Molar Found in San Mateo County Preserve

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MIT Assistant Professor Thomas Rose Dies After Cambridge Bike Crash

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Scientists Reconstruct Face and Life of 11th‑Century ‘Conquest Man’

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Study Finds Blood and Lime Binder Help Explain Why China’s 2,000‑Year‑Old Cliff Paintings Remain Vivid

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Study Finds Archaeopteryx Took Off With a Series of Hops

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Penghu Seabed Leg Bones Identified as Denisovan Fossils

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Ancient Aspendos Tomb Yields Coins Showing Wrestlers

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La Mojana Waterworks Were Built by Local Communities, Study Finds

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Imported Incense Found in Pompeii Household Censers

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25,000-Year-Old Teeth Show Habitual Betel-Nut Use on Sulawesi

Proteins Confirm Rich Denisovan Fossils and Tools at Bianfu Cave

Exceptional Pacific Mastodon Molar Found in San Mateo County Preserve

Devil's Arrows Sourced to Brimham Rocks 18 km From Boroughbridge

MIT Assistant Professor Thomas Rose Dies After Cambridge Bike Crash

Scientists Reconstruct Face and Life of 11th‑Century ‘Conquest Man’

17th-Century Teen Found With Padlock on Toe and Sickle at Throat Points to Anti‑demonic Burial Practices

Scientists Map Mauritia and Reject Claims It Proves Mythical Lemuria

Researchers Say 700-Year-Old Skeleton Shows First Evidence of Trebuchet Trauma

Bronze Age Oasis in Arabia Produced a Recognizable Pottery 'Brand', Study Finds

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16 Mummies and a Dog in Theban Tomb Reveal Orderly Long‑term Reuse

Study Finds Blood and Lime Binder Help Explain Why China’s 2,000‑Year‑Old Cliff Paintings Remain Vivid

Study Finds Archaeopteryx Took Off With a Series of Hops

Penghu Seabed Leg Bones Identified as Denisovan Fossils

Ancient Aspendos Tomb Yields Coins Showing Wrestlers

La Mojana Waterworks Were Built by Local Communities, Study Finds

Imported Incense Found in Pompeii Household Censers

Lidar Mapping Reveals Thousands of Hidden Earthworks and a Vast Aquiry Complex in the Southwestern Amazon

Study Recasts Dahshur Earthworks as Ancient Flood-Management System

LiDAR Reveals Hundreds of Hidden Amazon Earthworks

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