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Iron Age Britons may have removed the brains of the dead

Scrape marks inside a skull and sharpened limb bones in a set of remains found in Scotland may be evidence of unusual Iron Age funerary rituals

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What really happened when ancient humans migrated out of Africa

Comment

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Stonehenge's altar stone probably wasn't transported by a glacier

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Press Handout picture: ANCIENT ANAESTHETIC REVEALS THE SOPHISTICATED MEDICINE OF MING CHINA ? Microscopic analysis uncovers traces of anaesthetic on surgical instruments from an early Ming dynasty tomb. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZMcIfEltnmkddbPrcQk66zqZijuvsQhC Photograph shows: The sampled instruments and the residues analysed on each one.

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Earliest use of anaesthetics uncovered in Chinese doctor’s tomb

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How a visit to Stonehenge reminded me of deep time

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How a visit to Stonehenge reminded me of deep time

Culture

Plain of jars

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Mystery of the ancient giant stone jars of Laos may have been solved

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The story of the first human tool: the humble container

Features

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Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence

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Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones

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A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

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A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words

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Life

Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought

Features

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Historians dispute link between drought and rebellion in Roman Britain

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The Shroud of Turin bears DNA from many people, plants and animals

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Life

Oldest known dog extends the genetic history of our canine companions

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