Gold Rush-era human remains unearthed
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The capital city's ties to the Gold Rush are everywhere, from the historical old town where fortune-seekers arrived on the Sacramento River to Sutter's Fort, where costumed actors recreate the Wild West for schoolchildren.
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Peru celebrated the return Friday of a prized 1,300-year-old embossed gold headdress looted from an ancient tomb nearly 20 years ago.
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Archaeologists have discovered a cache of artifacts near South Padre Island that they say could be up to 5,000 years old, potentially providing new clues about early peoples of the Texas coast.
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Scientists have found the remains of a creature that may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes and humans.
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Human remains found in Mukilteo earlier this week were identified as those of a 49-year-old woman who disappeared from her condominium last summer, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner&#39;s Office said today.
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Human remains found in a shallow grave near the Missouri River are those of two missing children last seen when their father picked them up for a weekend visit in 2004, authorities confirmed Tuesday.
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A discovery of 1.66 million-year-old stone tools has produced the earliest evidence that human ancestors apparently dispersed across Asia at a relatively rapid clip.
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The earliest-known human ancestors  to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of  human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who  studied remains dug up at a fossil-rich site in the former  Soviet republic of Georgia.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  An amazing new tool for dating ancient remains, a luminescence geochronology laboratory, has been installed at Utah State University.
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DNA extracted from an ancient human skeleton found in Alaska suggests that the New World was first settled by prehistoric seafarers 15,000 years ago.
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Archeologists say they're 100 percent certain that the remains are those of a woman who was as mysterious in death as she was eccentric in life.
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Fossil hunters have unearthed the skeleton of a young girl who died 3.3 million years ago, marking the first time scientists have discovered the nearly complete remains of a child of an ancient human ancestor.
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Human remains were found in a Salt Lake County landfill where police have been searching for the body of a missing Utah woman, officials said Friday.
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Spanish researchers say they have found the remains of an extinct species of great ape that may have been the last ancestor humans shared with gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans.
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Â· Remains are believed to be those of tsar's children Â· Discovery in clearing is linked to 1918 shootings
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By JENNIFER DOBNER  SALT LAKE CITY - Human remains found in southeastern Utah are those of a man accused of killing a Colorado police officer, a slaying that sparked an intense manhunt for three people in 1998, authorities said Tuesday.
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Two skulls originally found in 1967 are shown to be about 196,000 years old, making them the oldest modern human remains known to science.