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What made us human? The fossils redefining our evolutionary origins

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What made us human? The fossils redefining our evolutionary origins

From Neanderthals to Australopithecus and Paranthropus, the more we’ve learned about ancient hominins, the harder it has become to define what a human is

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Egyptian pyramid may have been built using a water-powered elevator

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Butchered bones hint humans were in South America 21,000 years ago

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Skeletons reveal ancient Egyptian scribes had bad posture at work

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Ancient cave paintings on rocks in Karasay gorge, Taraz, Zhambyl Region, Kazakhstan. Petroglyphs Bronze Age and Iron Age rock art; Shutterstock ID 2465182461; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Did rock art spread from one place or was it invented many times?

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Animal etchings into rocks along the Orinoco River in South America

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Ancient snake drawings are among the largest known rock art worldwide

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Modern soldiers test ancient Greek armour to show it worked for war

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Early humans took northern route to Australia, cave find suggests

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Why did hominins like us evolve at all?

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Who were the enigmatic Sea Peoples blamed for the Bronze Age collapse?

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Who were the enigmatic Sea Peoples blamed for the Bronze Age collapse?

Around 3000 years ago, several empires and kingdoms in the Mediterranean collapsed, with a group of sea-faring warriors implicated as the culprit. But new evidence shows that many of our ideas about this turbulent time need completely rethinking

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Astonishing images show how female Neanderthal may have looked

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Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 years ago

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Ancient humans lived inside a lava tube in the Arabian desert

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Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human family’s newest species

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