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archaeology

Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming

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Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming

Evidence of the first early bread suggests humans were baking with wheat and oats thousands of years before they began farming the cereals

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Tregaron in Wales

Earth

Record temperatures mean ancient forts become visible in fields

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photographic film

Life

The amazing assortment of stuff at the bottom of one Amsterdam canal

Regulars

Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty

Life

Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty

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Ötzi the Iceman ran out of rock to make his tools before he died

Humans

Ötzi the Iceman ran out of rock to make his tools before he died

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The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought

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The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought

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a human skull being excavated

Humans

Mystery of why Stone Age villagers spent so much time underwater

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boat artwork

Humans

Have humans been sailors for a million years?

Features

World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran

Humans

World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran

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Harsh: Europe's cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived

Humans

Harsh: Europe's cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived

Cannabis – the source of the drug marijuana – virtually disappeared from Europe just as farmers arrived, so they didn’t get the chance to grow it for another 4500 years

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Humans

Stem cells may reveal how Neanderthal DNA works in modern humans

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Humans

There is no secret burial chamber in Tutankhamun’s tomb

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Humans

Ancient humans in Philippines may have given rise to ‘hobbits’

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Humans

Ancient Swedish massacre hints at chaos after the fall of Rome

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