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Faces from the Deep Past: How Europe's Skulls Record 30,000 Years of Upheaval

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it can be recognized on the Aurignacian skulls from Mladeč, whereas the Brno morphology is first documented with the Gravettian," Grasgruber notes. The short, high, gracile cranial forms common in recent centuries may owe more to changes in nutrition, lifestyle, and climate than to deep ancestry. PNAS , 108(22), 9350–9355.

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Ancient Iberian Slate Plaques: Early Genealogical Records?

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A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. Journal : Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 2017.

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World on the Move: Teenage Poets Slam their Truth

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Nevertheless, the scientific facts are there and the long history of race and racialization is documented. It ties to many anthropological concerns, past and present and across the subfields. I dont know what legend in my ancestry broke free from this bondage of pain. Whips that tore off our skins and hate began our lamenting.