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Detail of a single adult footprint from the trail of fossilised hominin footprints

Humans

Fossil footprints hint at mystery hominin with unusual walking style

A set of 3.7-million-year-old footprints were initially thought to have been left by a bear walking upright, but have now been reinterpreted as the prints of an unidentified hominin that walked a little bit like a modern catwalk fashion model

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flock of horses

Life

Stones smashed by horses can be mistaken for ancient human tools

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

Humans

Mammoth ivory pendant is oldest decorated jewellery found in Eurasia

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Upper central deciduous incisor

Life

Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do

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Woman carrying millet

Humans

Origins of Japanese and Turkish language family traced back 9000 years

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Roman statue

Humans

Ancient Roman statues discovered during HS2 high-speed railway dig

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L'Anse aux Meadows

Humans

We now know Vikings were in the Americas exactly 1000 years ago

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Tobacco seeds

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Ancient seeds reveal we began using tobacco at least 12,300 years ago

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Close up of the Le Base du Colosse des Naxiens (

Earth

Marble of ancient Greek statue traced to its likely origin

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Lake Caldeiro inside the collapsed caldera of Corvo Island

Humans

People reached remote Atlantic islands 700 years earlier than thought

The Azores, some 1400 kilometres off the west coast of Europe, were settled by the Portuguese in the 1400s, but now there’s evidence people had lived there 700 years earlier

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Technology

Ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets could be decoded by an AI

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Humans

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

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Humans

Ancient dog faeces show how our canine friends became omnivores

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Humans

Babylonians calculated with triangles centuries before Pythagoras

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