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Filling in the gaps in our history books

Miyo McGinn - Grist

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An empire built on beer

Kirsty Vitarelli - WhoWhatWhy

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How nonviolence changed our faces

Keith A. Spencer

The mummy of an iceman named Otzi, discovered on 1991 in the Italian Schnal Valley glacier. (Getty/Andrea Solero)

What life was like in the Copper Age

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A cliff dwelling preserved for millennia by the dry high-desert climate was included in a March 20 lease sale for oil and gas companies in southeast Utah. Officials from the federal Bureau of Land Management published confidential information online about locations and descriptions of almost 900 Native American antiquities, including cliff dwellings, in Utah. (Steven St. John for Reveal)

Feds divulge secret Native American info

Jennifer Oldham - Reveal

An undated photo made available by the University of Birmingham, England, of Stonehenge where a hidden complex of archaeological monuments has been uncovered using hi-tech methods of scanning below the Earth's surface. (AP Photo/University of Birmingham, Geert Verhoeven) (AP)

Neolithic Britain:

Jim Leary - The Conversation

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A life-ruining paleontology war

Katherine DM Clover

(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Walls like Trump’s destroy the past

Andrew Roddick - The Conversation

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A possible pole reversal?

John Tarduno, Vincent Hare - The Conversation

(Amy Scott)

Polish vampire mystery solved?

Joanna Rothkopf

Harrison Ford as archaeologist Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (Lucasfilm Ltd.)

Why archaeology captivates us

This undated handout photo provided by Nature Magazine shows stencils of hands in a cave in Indonesia. Ancient cave drawings in Indonesia are as old as famous prehistoric art in Europe, according to a new study that shows our ancestors were drawing all over the world 40,000 years ago. And it hints at an even earlier dawn of creativity in modern humans, going back to Africa, than scientists had thought. (AP/Kinez Riza, Nature Magazine)

Joanna Rothkopf

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Sea of Galilee from Jordan (<a href='url to photographer'>Ahmad A Atwah</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Joanna Rothkopf

(Geert Verhoeven/LBI ArchPro/Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project)

Joanna Rothkopf

Françoise Dorléac and Jean-Paul Belmondo in "That Man From Rio."

Meet the French Indiana Jones

Ruins of Astypalaia (kern/Shutterstock)

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Roxanne Khamsi - Popular Science

(Wikimedia)

Natasha Lennard

This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows a trench connecting both areas of the site in Alaska. Some 11,500 years ago one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a three-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. Today archaeologists are learning about the life and times of the early settlers who crossed from Asia to the New World, researchers thank to that burial. (AP Photo/Ben A. Potter, Science) (AP)

Randolph E. Schmid

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Associated Press

Archaeologists uncover 5,900 old skirt

Associated Press

A still from "Cave of Forgotten Dreams"

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