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Canadians Were Better at Clamming 3,500 Years Ago

New research has found that indigenous clam gardens are more productive than current practices.
Long Stretches of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA Helped Homo Sapiens Adapt

Denisovans and Neanderthals passed extra copies of some DNA to modern humans.
Native American Tribe Regains Island Taken After 1860 Massacre

Most of an island off northern California will again belong to the Wiyot Tribe, which was decimated by settlers in 1860.
Ancient City of ‘Mahendraparvata’ Hidden Beneath Cambodian Jungle

Researchers can “definitively” say that the ruins, overgrown by thick vegetation on the mountain of Phnom Kulen, are in fact from that 1,000-year-old city. The ancient city was never really lost, as Cambodians have been making religious pilgrimages to the site for hundreds of years.
We Need to Understand the Culture of Whales So We Can Save Them

As evidence of the existence of culture in animal groups emerges, humans need to rethink what it means to have culture. We must accept that what we have long considered our own might be shared.