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Pottery reveals America’s first social media networks

Early Mississippian Mound cultures shared artistic trends and technologies across regional networks that functioned in similar ways as modern social media, suggests new research.
An uneasy alliance: Indigenous Traditional Knowledge enriches western science

Why should different methods and different results be shunned when science by design is meant to be challenged?
How smallpox devastated the Aztecs – and helped Spain conquer an American civilization 500 years ago

Cortés and his force would not have been able to overcome a city of 200,000 without help. He got it in the form of a smallpox epidemic.
Researchers Prove Disputed Viking Warrior Skeleton Really Was Female

The authors confirm there was only one skeleton in the grave, and there was no chance of the bones being muddled up as each individual human bone was clearly labeled “Bj.581” in ink.
Isotopes found in bones suggest Neanderthals were fresh meat eaters

The researchers suggest that when the evidence is considered as a whole, it appears very likely that fresh meat was a main constituent of the Neanderthal diet.