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Sunrise over Ahu Tongariki Moai in Easter Island, Chile

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The societies proving that inequality and patriarchy aren't inevitable

Today’s complex societies are pretty homogeneous, but experimental cultures, past and present, teach us how to think more creatively about the way we live

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Artistic artefacts are rewriting the timeline of ancient South America

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Metin Eren at Kent State University demonstrates flintknapping to make stone tools

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Ancient humans may have risked their lives making stone tools

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Ancient bacteria genome reconstructed from Neanderthal tooth gunk

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DNA from 25,000-year-old tooth pendant reveals woman who wore it

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Ljubljana Marshes Wheel with axle (oldest wooden wheel yet discovered)

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Can we ever know who invented the wheel?

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Quaternary Science Reviews reporting that people at the Border Cave site may have roasted and eaten snails 170,000 years ago.

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Ancient humans may have cooked and eaten snails 170,000 years ago

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HHXJTH Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

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The archaeologists recreating the secrets of prehistoric technology

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Stone flakes made by monkeys cast doubt on ancient human 'tools'

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Plaster bust of philosopher Anaximander and group of other busts. Portraits of ancient historical persons. Mass-product souvenir in Turkey. Copy space, selected focus; Shutterstock ID 2261783295; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Anaximander review: Did Anaximander create science, asks Carlo Rovelli

Ancient philosopher Anaximander's discoveries about rain, wind and the cosmos may make him the true force behind modern science, argues physicist Carlo Rovelli in his newly republished first book

Culture

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Earliest signs of horse riding found in 5000-year-old human remains

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Some of the earliest modern humans in Europe used bows and arrows

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Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools

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Neolithic complex dubbed ‘Stonehenge of the North’ opens to UK public

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