Jamestown skull on cutting edge
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A fragment of human skull found in a 400-year-old trash pit at the historic Jamestown settlement shows evidence of the earliest known surgery â-nd autopsy â -the British Colonies in America, researchers say.
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By Patrick Lynch, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 8--JAMESTOWN -- A relic from the early days of exploration in Virginia is to take a ride into outer space on NASA's space shuttle Atlantis tonight.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 11--Pork was scarce in the Middle Ages, so merchants could command a pretty penny for a bag holding a baby pig.
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Paris - In one of the most spectacular fossil finds in decades, anthropologists say they have found the bones of a tiny human who is a twig in mankind&#39;s family tree.
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Archaeologists have reported finding what could be the earliest evidence for domestication of manioc in the Americas.
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Fossilised skull of one tonne rat nicknamed Mighty Mouse is unearthed in South America
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IQALUIT, NUNAVUT - A paleontologist has uncovered the fossilized remains of a giant carnivorous dinosaur in Nunavut. Hans Larsson of Montreal&#39;s McGill University found the remains while scanning the tundra and rock formations for fossils.
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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.
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NEW YORK - A new fossil discovery from China sh
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A study of an ancient human pest -- head lice -- suggests that the ancestors of today&#39;s American Indians may have met and fought with
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An almost complete human skull dating back 80,000 to 100,000 years was unearthed in central China, state media reported Wednesday.
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The face of an Egyptian artisan named Harwa has been seen for the first time in 3000 years using CT scans, X-rays and 3D modelling technology.
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The image originated in Worcester, Mass., where an exhibit on it opens October 6.
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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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An archaeologist is taking a second look at a small cannon found by fishermen off the Virginia coast more than two decades ago in hopes of determining how it got to the bottom of the ocean &#151; and who left it there.
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WASHINGTON - A mannequin&#39;s skull sits in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine, about to be filled with a thick, brain-like gel.
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Jewelry, weapons, and goat bones are among the artifacts in the cemetery, whose discovery suggests the city's Canaanite settlement was bigger than thought.