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View of the excavations at the entrance of Grotte Mandrin

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Modern humans moved into cave one year after Neanderthals abandoned it

About 10,000 years before modern humans colonised Europe, a small group of them moved into a cave in southern France that had just been abandoned by Neanderthals – but they only stayed there for about 40 years

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160,000-year-old fossil may be the first Denisovan skull we've found

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percussion notches on large bovid humerus

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Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

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HT3KM2 Danebury Hill Fort, c2nd century BC, (c1990-2010). Artist: Karen Guffogg. Reconstruction drawing. Celtic / Iron age, approx. 2nd century BC. Built in the 6th century BC, the fort was in use for almost 500 years, during a period when the number of hill forts in Wessex greatly increased. Danebury was remodelled several times, making it more complex and resulting in it becoming a developed hill fort

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Bronze Age migration may have brought Celtic languages to Britain

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Dorsal and ventral views of the pendant. Scale bar is 1 cm. ? Antonino Vazzana - BONES Lab

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Mammoth ivory pendant is oldest decorated jewellery found in Eurasia

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Homo naledi infant skull discovery suggests they buried their dead Read more: https://staging.newscientistbeta.com/article/2296360-homo-naledi-infant-skull-discovery-suggests-they-buried-their-dead/#ixzz7BLiYTNU5

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First partial skull of a Homo naledi child found in South Africa

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Homo naledi infant skull discovery suggests they buried their dead

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Homo bodoensis, a new species of human ancestor, lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene.

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New human species has been named Homo bodoensis - but it may not stick

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Ancient faeces sitting on a rock

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Ancient faeces show Iron Age miners ate blue cheese and drank beer

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The Jubbah Oasis in northern Saudi Arabia, where humans were repeatedly present during periods of increased rainfall over hundreds of thousands of years

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Humans reached Arabia in at least five waves thanks to wetter climates

A single Arabian archaeological site has been occupied by ancient humans on five separate occasions over the past 400,000 years, each enabled by a period of wet climate

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7200-year-old DNA suggests Denisovans bred with humans on Sulawesi

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Ancient humans in Europe may have stolen food from wild hunting dogs

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Just 1.5 to 7 per cent of the modern human genome is uniquely ours

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First farmers in the Atacama desert had a history of brutal violence

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