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Carved in Bark: Arborglyphs of America
Americans have long carved their marks, names, and news into trees, even with little assurance anyone would read the inscriptions before time and nature rotted them away.
Some marks, however, were recognized and respected. Starting in 1691, the English crown claimed title to New England’s best white...
Patrick Durkin
Sep 18, 2023
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Anthropology
Archeologists Unearth 300,000-Year-Old Hunting Stick
Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed the oldest known large-scale collection of human-made wooden tools.
The artifacts, which date back about 300,000 years, were discovered at a site near Schöningen, Germany. The found collection includes some early human-made hunting weapons, including wooden...
Megan Plete Postol
Jul 26, 2023
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Game Warden Recalls Citing Hall-of-Fame Basketball Coach for Accidental Shooting
Retired Wisconsin Conservation Warden Jerry Carow doesn’t need his notes or case files to recall the most famous person he ever cited for failure to report an accidental shooting.
Carow, in fact, thinks he cited only one person for that offense during his 30-year career. After all, hunting-related...
Patrick Durkin
Jun 29, 2023
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Listen: Here's What a 12,000-Year-Old Hunting Call Sounds Like
Archeologists working in Israel have found what they believe could be the “earliest evidence of the use of sound in hunting.”
The 12,000-year-old whistles were made from the wing bones of Eurasian coot and teal, and replicas manufactured from mallard bones produce sounds that imitate birds of prey...
Jordan Sillars
Jun 13, 2023
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Anthropology
Butchering a Bison with Clovis Points and Tools
On a late September day in Montana, a group of my colleagues and I here at MeatEater collaborated with a team of archeologists to butcher a bison using an Ice Age tool kit made of stone. The goal was to create a collection of tools and bones that might help unravel the mystery of how our fellow...
Steven Rinella
Apr 18, 2023
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Anthropology
Preserved in Permafrost: 3,500-Year-Old Brown Bear Discovery
A bear that died 3,500 years ago and then remained nearly perfectly preserved in the ice of eastern Siberia has undergone a necropsy that revealed its true age and genetics, among other secrets.
Scientists originally thought the bear, which was uncovered in 2020, was an extinct cave bear species...
Megan Plete Postol
Mar 7, 2023
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Anthropology
Study: Neanderthals Displayed Trophy Antlers, Too
It’s not clear when the term “man cave” was first coined, but a recent discovery in Spain has pushed the first known example back at least 40,000 years.
Turns out, it’s not a new desire to have a little place of your own to dream about past hunts and plan for the next one. Nor is it a new activity...
Jim Heffelfinger
Feb 22, 2023
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Anthropology
The Bizarre History of the Sea Mink
Massive mounds of shell dot the eastern shore of America. They heap along the intertidal creeks and the banks of bays, as small as king-sized beds and as large as football fields. Some are just a few layers deep and others are as tall as a three-story building. They lay in the roots of cedars and...
Michael Adams
Feb 15, 2023
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Anthropology
The Modern-Day Johnny Appleseed
If historic apples from America’s pioneer past were fugitives, they’d find few ridgetops high enough or woodlots dense enough to elude Tom Brown.
Brown, 81, is a die-hard apple hunter who traverses the Appalachians from Georgia to Pennsylvania tracking down and conserving lost and long-forgotten...
Patrick Durkin
Jan 23, 2023
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Anthropology
Study: Early Homo Sapiens Used Cave Drawings Like Trail Cams
Your mother-in-law may not understand your obsession with the reproductive cycles of game animals, but a new study suggests that ancient hunter-gatherers shared your fascination—and they used what could be the earliest forms of writing to capitalize on it.
The study, published this month in the...
Jordan Sillars
Jan 19, 2023
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Anthropology
Mammoth Discovery Would Double Timeline of Humans in North America
Nine years ago, during a casual afternoon stroll, Gary Hartley uncovered one of the most controversial finds in modern anthropology.
Hartley had been hiking a narrow game trail that followed the Rio Puerco, a small tributary to the famous Rio Chama, in northern New Mexico. The creek and game trail...
Michael Adams
Jan 12, 2023
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