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Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

Cut marks on animal bones suggest ancient hominins butchered them for their meat, and that they were first on the scene instead of having to scavenge from carnivores like big cats

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HT3KM2 Danebury Hill Fort, c2nd century BC, (c1990-2010). Artist: Karen Guffogg. Reconstruction drawing. Celtic / Iron age, approx. 2nd century BC. Built in the 6th century BC, the fort was in use for almost 500 years, during a period when the number of hill forts in Wessex greatly increased. Danebury was remodelled several times, making it more complex and resulting in it becoming a developed hill fort

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Bronze Age migration may have brought Celtic languages to Britain

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Dorsal and ventral views of the pendant. Scale bar is 1 cm. ? Antonino Vazzana - BONES Lab

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Mammoth ivory pendant is oldest decorated jewellery found in Eurasia

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First partial skull of a Homo naledi child found in South Africa

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Homo naledi infant skull discovery suggests they buried their dead

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Homo bodoensis, a new species of human ancestor, lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene.

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New human species has been named Homo bodoensis - but it may not stick

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Ancient faeces sitting on a rock

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Ancient faeces show Iron Age miners ate blue cheese and drank beer

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The Jubbah Oasis in northern Saudi Arabia, where humans were repeatedly present during periods of increased rainfall over hundreds of thousands of years

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Humans reached Arabia in at least five waves thanks to wetter climates

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Fragmentary remains of the human skull_CREDIT University of Hasanuddin

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7200-year-old DNA suggests Denisovans bred with humans on Sulawesi

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Ancient humans in Europe may have stolen food from wild hunting dogs

The earliest humans known to have lived outside Africa shared their environment with hunting dogs – and may even have stolen food from them

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Just 1.5 to 7 per cent of the modern human genome is uniquely ours

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First farmers in the Atacama desert had a history of brutal violence

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'Dragon man' claimed as new species of ancient human but doubts remain

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Newly identified ancestor of Neanderthals complicates the human story

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