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Humans lived on Spanish plateau during Earth's last cold snap

Prehistoric people endured frigid and dry conditions in the highlands of central Spain during the coldest part of the last glacial period

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Read an extract from The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks

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Read an extract from The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks

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Sebastian Faulks: ‘Homo sapiens is a very odd creature’

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Sebastian Faulks: ‘Homo sapiens is a very odd creature’

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The Neanderthal woman was re-created and built by Dutch artists Andrie and Alfons Kennis. Research including fossil anatomy and a detailed study of DNA is present in the color of the skin and eyes. (Photo by Joe McNally/Getty Images)

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The Naked Neanderthal review: Looking for the real Neanderthals

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A flint used to shape a wooden structure identified at the archaeological site Kalambo Falls in Zambia

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Earliest evidence of buildings made from wood is 476,000 years old

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Why the ancient hominins of Asia are so mysterious

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2PEK6YC Professor Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins at London's Natural History Museum, moves a cast taken from the a skull of what is said to be a new species in the evolution of man named 'Homo Floresiensis' during a news conference Wednesday Oct. 27, 2004. At left is a cast of Homo Sapiens skull. (AP Photo/Richard Lewis)

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How artefacts are found tells its own story – if we want to hear it

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Homo floresiensis skull. Mould made from fragments of the skull of Homo floresiensis in Liang Bua cave, Flores, Indonesia. This newly discovered hominid species was found in Liang Bua cave in 2003. It was very small, measuring just over a metre tall, and is thought to be a descendant of Homo erectus that underwent island dwarfism - a process where isolated species that lack predators and are constrained by limited resources evolve to become smaller. It is thought to have become extinct around 12,000 years ago and therefore co-existed with modern humans (Homo sapiens).

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The untold story of the curiously controversial Homo floresiensis dig

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Ancient humans may have worn shoes more than 100,000 years ago

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Researchers Michelle Bebber holding an atlatl weapon

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Women and men throw spears equally well using ancient atlatl tool

Men typically throw objects with a greater velocity than women can – but with a spear-launching tool called an atlatl, men and women’s throwing velocity is indistinguishable

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These ancient sand drawings could be a fifth type of palaeoart

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Cave of Bones review: Lee Berger on the discovery of Homo naledi

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How prehistoric people settled one of Earth’s most extreme places

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Ancient humans hunted animals by throwing a stick like a boomerang

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