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Anadenanthera colubrina is the one tree species common to nearly all regions of South American seasonally dry tropical forests and woodlands (SDTFs). Its abundant fruits each of which is laterally flat and which bear many lenticular seeds, trunk and main stems with a tuberculate cortex, and extra floral nectaries positioned near the base of the leaf rachis distinguish this species.

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Ancient Andean leaders may have mixed hallucinogen with their beer

A concoction of vilca seeds and fermented alcohol may have provided a mild hallucinogenic experience, enabling Wari leaders in South America to bond with their people

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The god Anubis and a mummy

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Ancient Egyptian mummy of a young girl is first with a bandaged wound

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Facemask of the never-before unwrapped mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I

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The mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I has been digitally unwrapped

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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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Faroe Islands. Northern Atlantic 2017 Ei?i, Eysturoy, Faeroe Islands

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People occupied the Faroe Islands 300 years earlier than we thought

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image of beer cups and jars

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Ancient Egyptian elites used a thick beer porridge in their ceremonies

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Detail of a single adult footprint from the trail of fossilised hominin footprints

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Fossil footprints hint at mystery hominin with unusual walking style

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Stones smashed by horses can be mistaken for ancient human tools

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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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Upper central deciduous incisor

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Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do

A tooth from a Neanderthal child who lived 120,000 years ago suggests that our cousin species began cutting their baby teeth at 4 months – earlier than for the average modern human

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Origins of Japanese and Turkish language family traced back 9000 years

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Ancient Roman statues discovered during HS2 high-speed railway dig

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We now know Vikings were in the Americas exactly 1000 years ago

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Ancient seeds reveal we began using tobacco at least 12,300 years ago

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