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People living in the Atacama desert once traded exotic parrots

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People living in the Atacama desert once traded exotic parrots

The remains of birds from between AD 1100 and 1450 suggest that people once transported parrots and macaws to trade them at an oasis in Chile’s Atacama desert

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Bronze Age miners had cooked meals delivered to their workplace

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Bronze Age miners had cooked meals delivered to their workplace

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The World Before Us review: A gripping account of Earth's other humans

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The World Before Us review: A gripping account of Earth's other humans

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Skeletons

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Mass graves in France belonged to opposing soldiers in medieval war

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stone tool

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Indian stone tool may be earliest evidence of humans outside Africa

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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bone fragment

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Earliest American dog hints pets accompanied first people in Americas

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How archaeologists are using futuristic tech to uncover ancient cities

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How archaeologists are using futuristic tech to uncover ancient cities

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stone circle

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Stonehenge was built with bits of an older Welsh Stone Age monument

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ancient face cream

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2700-year-old face cream was made from animal fat and cave ‘milk’

Cream preserved in an ancient bronze jar shows that men in ancient China were using cosmetics 2700 years ago – and it was made using a soft white mineral found in certain caves

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Greeks domesticated grapes about 4000 years ago to improve wine-making

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Netflix's The Dig review: An archaeology drama with impeccable acting

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World’s oldest painting of animals discovered in an Indonesian cave

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Is digging a tunnel under Stonehenge good or bad for archaeology?

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