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Stone Age Europe may have been home to no more than 1500 people

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Stone Age Europe may have been home to no more than 1500 people

Our species arrived in Europe about 43,000 years ago – and for the following 10,000 years the population remained astonishingly low

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Neanderthals artwork

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Cosy up with the Neanderthals, the first humans to make a house a home

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Denisova cave

Humans

Siberian cave reveals secrets of its mysterious Denisovan inhabitants

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This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic

Environment

This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic

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Gibraltar

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Africans may have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar 4000 years ago

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Long lost cities in the Amazon were once home to millions of people

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Long lost cities in the Amazon were once home to millions of people

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glacier

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Ice from the Alps reveals Europeans ditched gold for silver in AD 660

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digital recording of skeletons

Humans

Biggest archaeological dig in Europe will uncover UK's buried history

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DNA from 6000-year-old chewing gum reveals how an ancient woman lived

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DNA from 6000-year-old chewing gum reveals how an ancient woman lived

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baby playing

Humans

Toys are us: How childhood objects may have shaped human history

Tantalising evidence hints that key human innovations including the wheel and weaving were the outcome of, quite literally, child's play

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Life

3000-year-old woman's mummy found in tomb from the time of Tutankhamun

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Life

Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

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Life

Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

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Unearthed! The missing Native American city on the Great Plains

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