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When does a bone become a fossil?

As organic material in a bone gets replaced by minerals over time, it becomes a fossil. But that can happen at different rates even within the same individual

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Ancient humans hunted animals by throwing a stick like a boomerang

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Sunrise over Ahu Tongariki Moai in Easter Island, Chile

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The societies proving that inequality and patriarchy aren't inevitable

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Artistic artefacts are rewriting the timeline of ancient South America

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Metin Eren at Kent State University demonstrates flintknapping to make stone tools

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Ancient humans may have risked their lives making stone tools

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Ancient bacteria genome reconstructed from Neanderthal tooth gunk

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DNA from 25,000-year-old tooth pendant reveals woman who wore it

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Ljubljana Marshes Wheel with axle (oldest wooden wheel yet discovered)

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Can we ever know who invented the wheel?

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Quaternary Science Reviews reporting that people at the Border Cave site may have roasted and eaten snails 170,000 years ago.

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Ancient humans may have cooked and eaten snails 170,000 years ago

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HHXJTH Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

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The archaeologists recreating the secrets of prehistoric technology

It has long been unclear how ancient people built a city of wood in the New Mexico desert far from any forests. By trying prehistoric building techniques themselves, archaeologists are working it out

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Stone flakes made by monkeys cast doubt on ancient human 'tools'

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Anaximander review: Did Anaximander create science, asks Carlo Rovelli

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Earliest signs of horse riding found in 5000-year-old human remains

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Some of the earliest modern humans in Europe used bows and arrows

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