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DNA from 6000-year-old chewing gum reveals how an ancient woman lived

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DNA from 6000-year-old chewing gum reveals how an ancient woman lived

Lola lived 6000 years ago and made glue by chewing birch bark pitch. By analysing DNA left on the pitch we know about her diet, appearance, and ancestry

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Toys are us: How childhood objects may have shaped human history

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3000-year-old woman's mummy found in tomb from the time of Tutankhamun

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Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

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Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

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Unearthed! The missing Native American city on the Great Plains

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Daniel Antoine: The hidden secrets of Egyptian mummies

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Daniel Antoine: The hidden secrets of Egyptian mummies

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David Reich: The truth about us, and where we come from

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David Reich: The truth about us, and where we come from

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Tree rings reveal plague hit medieval Europe’s construction industry

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Tree rings reveal plague hit medieval Europe’s construction industry

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Every man in Spain was wiped out 4500 years ago by hostile invaders

When a new group of people arrived on the Iberian peninsula 4500 years ago, local males stopped passing on their genes – suggesting they were supplanted or killed

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We thought the Incas couldn't write. These knots change everything

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We may have reached Madagascar 6000 years earlier than once thought

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Iran's Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia

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World’s first drawing is a red crayon doodle made 73,000 years ago

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