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How fall of Bronze Age civilisations holds lessons for modern world

The fall of a couple of Mediterranean civilisations 3000 years ago had destabilising effects on their neighbours, according to a computer simulation, offering hints for avoiding similar disruptions today

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Humans first reached China thousands of years earlier than we thought

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Ancient cities discovered in the Amazon are the largest yet found

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The 2023 discoveries that made us rethink the story of human evolution

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The US needs to do more to preserve its ancient sites

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The US needs to do more to preserve its ancient sites

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Stonehenge science: How archaeology reveals the stone circle's secrets

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Stonehenge science: How archaeology reveals the stone circle's secrets

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Traces of cannabis found in pre-modern human bones for the first time

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Did Homo naledi bury its dead? Debate rages over human relative

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Not to be used in museums, exhibitions, or articles about Elisabeth Daynes or the Atelier Daynes. No use in any context outside of mainstream science without the express permission of Atelier Daynes. Front covers or private use require clearance. Mandatory credit. Paranthropus boisei model. Reconstruction of a specimen of Paranthropus boisei. This hominin, which is sometimes classified as Australopithecus boisei, lived from 2.3 to 1.2 million years ago in eastern Africa. P. boisei is one of several extinct species that form an early part of the human evolutionary tree. Reconstruction by Elisabeth Daynes of the Daynes Studio, Paris, France. MANDATORY CREDIT.

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How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, survive for so long?

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The Makapansgat pebble is seen on display as part of the exhibition

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The archaeological finds that show art is far older than our species

We used to trace the origins of art to Stone Age Europe. Now we have evidence of artistic sensibility in earlier hominins, from Neanderthals to Homo erectus and beyond

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Earliest known war in Europe was a Stone Age conflict 5000 years ago

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Humans caught more diseases after we domesticated animals

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People around Europe have eaten seaweed for thousands of years

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Student uses AI to decipher word in ancient scroll from Herculaneum

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