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Avebury stones

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The world's largest stone circle started out as a humble ancient home

Radar has uncovered evidence that the huge Avebury monument, near Stonehenge in Wiltshire, UK, once housed a simple dwelling right at its centre

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Stonehenge artwork

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Story of most murderous people of all time revealed in ancient DNA

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ocean

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Evidence of early Australian arrival is best judged with an open mind

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Hopkins river estuary

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Why I believe humans were in Australia much earlier than we thought

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Sea otter (Enhydra lutris) breaking open a clam with a rock.

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Sea otter archaeology could tell us about their 2-million-year history

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monkey in a tree

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Ancient humans thrived in rainforests by hunting monkeys and squirrels

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Stone Age Europe may have been home to no more than 1500 people

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Stone Age Europe may have been home to no more than 1500 people

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Neanderthals artwork

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Cosy up with the Neanderthals, the first humans to make a house a home

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Denisova cave

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Siberian cave reveals secrets of its mysterious Denisovan inhabitants

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This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic

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This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic

The environmentally damaging melting of polar ice is also exposing minerals, archaeological wonders and even ice volcanoes and there's a race to get to them

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Africans may have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar 4000 years ago

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Long lost cities in the Amazon were once home to millions of people

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Ice from the Alps reveals Europeans ditched gold for silver in AD 660

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Biggest archaeological dig in Europe will uncover UK's buried history

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