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Ancient Britons extracted salt from seawater more than 5500 years ago

A Stone Age pit found in north-east England was probably used to obtain salt from seawater – thousands of years before Britons were thought to have the technology

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People living in the Atacama desert once traded exotic parrots

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People living in the Atacama desert once traded exotic parrots

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Bronze Age miners had cooked meals delivered to their workplace

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Bronze Age miners had cooked meals delivered to their workplace

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The World Before Us review: A gripping account of Earth's other humans

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The World Before Us review: A gripping account of Earth's other humans

Culture

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Mass graves in France belonged to opposing soldiers in medieval war

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Indian stone tool may be earliest evidence of humans outside Africa

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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Earliest American dog hints pets accompanied first people in Americas

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How archaeologists are using futuristic tech to uncover ancient cities

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How archaeologists are using futuristic tech to uncover ancient cities

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Stonehenge was built with bits of an older Welsh Stone Age monument

A few centuries before the earliest standing stones were placed at Stonehenge, they may have stood in a circle 280 kilometres away in Wales, the remains of which have just been identified

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2700-year-old face cream was made from animal fat and cave ‘milk’

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Greeks domesticated grapes about 4000 years ago to improve wine-making

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Netflix's The Dig review: An archaeology drama with impeccable acting

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World’s oldest painting of animals discovered in an Indonesian cave

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