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Carved giant sloth bones may have been worn as personal ornaments

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Early humans made jewellery from giant sloth bones

The bones were shaped by people using stone tools before they were fossilised, adding new evidence for humans’ arrival in the Americas before the end of the last glacial period

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A woman with her daughter observes the pictures of people who lost their lives during the Guatemalan civil war, as forensic anthropologists from the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala (FAFG) exhume the bodies of one of four mass graves in La Verbena cemetery, in Guatemla City on March 6, 2010, as part of a search to find the 889 people who disappeared during the internal armed conflict (1960-1996). AFP PHOTO/Johan ORDONEZ (Photo credit should read JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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Still Life With Bones review: Harrowing account of exposing genocide

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Was the shift to farming really the worst mistake in human history?

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3D models of the femur and ulnae of Sahelanthropus tchadensis

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Human ancestors may have walked on two legs 7 million years ago

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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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Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools

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Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools

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Hieroglyphics

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Hieroglyphics

Fossil teeth

Humans

A skull suggests humans have been getting piercings for 12,000 years

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Family walking in field

Health

Why walking your way to better health isn't all about step counting

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musical score

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Humans across cultures may share the same universal musical grammar

Music appears to be made from the same simple building blocks of pitches and chords around the world, upending the prevailing view that universals don’t exist

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Humans

Wealthy families in prehistoric Europe may have had live-in slaves

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Ancient Celts were partial to beer, mead and imported Greek wines

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Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks

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Does population genetics have a racism problem, even today?

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