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Two Pioneering Female Archaeologists
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A Hidden Figure in North American Archaeology
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The Blockbuster Exhibit That Shouldn’t Have Been
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How Museums Can Do More Than Just Repatriate Objects
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The Phantom Forests That Built Mesa Verde
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Do Twins Share a Soul?
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An Archaeology of Marijuana
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Wildfire Archaeology and the Burning American West
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Two Surgeries, 800 Years Apart
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A Curator’s Search for Justice
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The Masked Man
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The Scientific Sorcery of Radiocarbon Dating
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Why We Buy Weird Things in Times of Crisis
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What Modern Extremes Taught Me About Noise in the Ancient World
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A Tale of Two Ruins
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What Do Monuments Reveal About Their Makers?
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Stone Age Myths We’ve Made Up
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What Would Leonardo da Vinci Think of the Future?
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Who Decided It Was Bad to Be Fat?
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What Google Maps Don’t Show You
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The Skeletons in the Museum Closet
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How Do We Know Which Historical Accounts Are True?
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Why Are Some Caves Full of Shoes?
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Is Cyclical Time the Cure to Technology’s Ills?
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The Weird, Wild World of Mortuary Customs
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Transcontinental Travel—2,000 Years Ago
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How Archaeologists Uncover History With Trees
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Were Peace Medals the Price of Loyalty?
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The Surreal World of Money
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Why the Famous Folsom Point Isn’t a Smoking Gun
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How the Folsom Point Became an Archaeological Icon
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Capturing the Art of Imprisonment
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The Many Hands Shirt: Reuniting a Family and an Heirloom
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A Double Bass, Tree Rings, and the Truth
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The Sound and Fury of the Huey Helicopter
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A Relic of the Past Soars Into the Final Frontier
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The Revolutionary Genius of Neanderthals
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The Silk Ribbon of Highways
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The Long Count
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The Way Trump Wears His Hat
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Spirit-Monsters and the Curse of the Chicago Cubs
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Is a Hand Wave a Universal Greeting?
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Forget Not the Mighty Zipper
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Lost or Found? A Stick Chart From the Marshall Islands
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How Did We Ever Live Without GPS?
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Did Women and Children Exist in Prehistory?
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HH-39: Why Good Science Doesn’t Need Eureka Moments
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The Right to Own Living Memorials
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Skeleton Sex Pots
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Martin Luther King Jr., in Sapphire
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The World’s Most Sustainable Technology
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Confessions of a Blackhawks Fan
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