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Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived
Astonishing new archaeological finds and ancient DNA analysis leave no doubt that throughout prehistory women were rulers, warriors, hunters and shamans
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Homo naledi’s burial practices could change what it means to be human
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AI helps reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions from the Roman Empire
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What were ancient humans thinking when they began to bury their dead?
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Ranching and farming have eroded almost all the soil in the Alps
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Neanderthal groups had their own local food culture
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70,000 years ago humans underwent a major shift 鈥� that鈥檚 why we exist
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‘Hybrid’ skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens
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Ancient DNA reveals make-up of Roman Empire鈥檚 favourite sauce
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The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn鈥檛 conquer the world
Over tens of thousands of years, waves of Homo sapiens set out across Europe and Asia, only for their societies and cultures to mysteriously vanish. At last, ancient DNA is revealing why
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Ancient mammoth-tusk boomerang is twice as old as we thought
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Ancient people took wallabies to Indonesian islands in canoes
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We finally know what the face of a Denisovan looked like
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Ancient humans鈥� extraordinary journey to South America
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