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Paranthropus, early human relative

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Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools

Stone tools discovered in Kenya are the oldest Oldowan-type implements found, dating back at least 2.6 million years, and they may have been made by our relative Paranthropus

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Central Henge, Thornborough Henges. ?Historic England Archive

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Neolithic complex dubbed ‘Stonehenge of the North’ opens to UK public

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Person milking a cow

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Milk may have fuelled a growth spurt in ancient Europeans

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Cave painting of cattle

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Mysterious symbols in cave paintings may be earliest form of writing

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Neanderthal or Homo Sapiens Family Cooking Animal Meat over Bonfire and then Eating it. Tribe of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers Wearing Animal Skins Eating in a Dark Scary Cave at Night; Shutterstock ID 1595983549; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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When did hominins start cooking? It might be earlier than we thought

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We have finally found the land of Punt, where pharaohs got their gifts

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We have finally found the land of Punt, where pharaohs got their gifts

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Visualizing inferred human ancestral lineages over time and space. Each line represents an ancestor-descendant relationship in our inferred genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. The width of a line corresponds to how many times the relationship is observed, and lines are colored on the basis of the estimated age of the ancestor.

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A family tree of humanity released in 2022 shows how we're all related

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M26NDA Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (south-eastern France): OCaverne du Pont-d'ArcO, replica of the Chauvet Cave, registered as a Unesco World Heritage Site. It gathers

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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered review: Hunting human origin stories

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A recreation of a Neanderthal man

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Antibiotics encoded in Neanderthal DNA could help us fight infections

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Ancient human woman wrapping fish in leaves next to a fire

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Early humans may have cooked fish in ovens 780,000 years ago

The remains of fish teeth at an archaeological site in Israel appear to have been cooked with controlled heat rather than directly exposed to fire

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Egyptology continues to astound 100 years after Tutankhamun was found

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Tutankhamun’s Secrets review: Lively TV documentary spills more beans

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Don’t Miss: Great Egyptology from Tutankhamun to Cleopatra’s daughter

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Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World is an engaging update

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