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Indigenous Australians have managed land with fire for 11,000 years

Lake sediments reveal the ancient history of Aboriginal people’s use of fire to manage the landscape, a tradition that has benefits for biodiversity

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Ukraine may have been first part of Europe colonised by early humans

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Genomes of modern Indian people include wide range of Neanderthal DNA

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A close-up view of a burial trench between rows of individual graves, excavated between the concrete foundations of the Royal Mint, from the excavation of the Black Death cemetery, East Smithfield, London, view looking west. (Photo by MOLA/Getty Images)

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Crypt review: Alice Roberts on murder and mayhem in the Middle Ages

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Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts

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When does a bone become a fossil?

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Hominins may have left Africa 700,000 years earlier than we thought

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Mammoth tusk tool may have been used to make ropes 37,000 years ago

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Modern humans were already in northern Europe 45,000 years ago

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Modern humans were already in northern Europe 45,000 years ago

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Humans first reached China thousands of years earlier than we thought

A fresh look at an archaeological site in northern China that was excavated in the 1960s has confirmed Homo sapiens was present there about 45,000 years ago

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Mathematics

Are we all related to Henry VIII's Master of the Mint?

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The 2023 discoveries that made us rethink the story of human evolution

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How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, survive for so long?

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Why so many prehistoric monuments were painted red

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