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Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin

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Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg belonging to a strikingly small member of the group raises questions about how it did so

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A radical new idea for how our ancestors invented stone tools

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Relics in Tutankhamun’s tomb hint he invented elaborate burial rites

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10. Regalia presented to Ashurbanipal

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Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life

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Surprising skeletons prompt a radical rethink of Egyptian pyramids

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The Maquan River, the upper section of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, which flows through the Tibetan Plateau

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Ancient humans lived in an 'uninhabitable' climate 25,000 years ago

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Ancient face bones offer clues to identity of early humans in Europe

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The biggest coincidence in human evolution

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A bone that appears to have been fashioned into a tool, dating back 1.5 million years

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Ancient humans used bone tools a million years earlier than we thought

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Humans were living in tropical forests surprisingly early

By far the oldest evidence of humans living in dense forests comes from a site in Ivory Coast, where stone tools and plant remains reveal a human presence stretching back 150,000 years

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Ancient hunters may have used throwing spears 300,000 years ago

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Most Europeans may have had dark skin until less than 3000 years ago

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The story of ancient Mesopotamia and the dawn of the modern world

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Fossil proteins may soon reveal how we're related to Australopithecus

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