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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

Our species arrived in Europe about 43,000 years ago – and for the following 10,000 years the population remained astonishingly low

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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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A large haul of ancient tools from China

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Complex stone tools in China may re-write our species' ancient history

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Serengeti

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Humans have shaped the Serengeti's ecosystems since the Stone Age

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a human skull being excavated

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Mystery of why Stone Age villagers spent so much time underwater

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boat artwork

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Have humans been sailors for a million years?

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