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Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

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Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

Wooden tools are hardly ever preserved, but a cache found in Italy suggests Neanderthals made them with fire and used them to dig up foods like tubers

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Primate archaeology: Digging up secrets of the monkey Stone Age

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Easter Island

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Unearthed: Why we've got monuments like Stonehenge all wrong

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Baby skeleton from Alaska reveals origins of Native Americans

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Baby skeleton from Alaska reveals origins of Native Americans

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Hoax or not? Three ancient texts with controversial origins

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Hoax or not? Three ancient texts with controversial origins

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Venice may be almost 200 years older than anyone thought

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Venice may be almost 200 years older than anyone thought

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A stone from Bronze Age central Turkey showing Luwian hieroglyphs (top left)

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How World War Zero wrecked three Bronze Age civilisations

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A shipwreck has been found from the time of Alexander the Great

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Dali skull

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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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Cosmic rays have revealed a new chamber in Egypt’s Great Pyramid

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Cosmic rays have revealed a new chamber in Egypt’s Great Pyramid

Particles from outer space have helped scientists uncover a hidden chamber within Egypt’s most famous pyramid, the first such finding in over a century

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Cracking it: Enigma’s Alan Turing and Linear B’s Michael Ventris

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The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks

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Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

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Controversial footprints suggest we evolved in Europe not Africa

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