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A site used by ancient humans was also a latrine for giant hyenas

Stone tools, mammal bones and fossilised faeces hint that hominins and hyenas scavenged for food at the same place 1.4 million years ago

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Early humans lived in Ethiopian highlands 2 million years ago

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Neanderthals hunted cave lions with spears and made use of their pelts

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Humans lived on Spanish plateau during Earth's last cold snap

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Read an extract from The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks

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Read an extract from The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks

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Sebastian Faulks: ‘Homo sapiens is a very odd creature’

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Sebastian Faulks: ‘Homo sapiens is a very odd creature’

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A human bone from up to 3900 BC found inside the Cueva de los Marmoles cave in Grenada, Spain

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Prehistoric people in Spain may have made tools from human bones

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The Neanderthal woman was re-created and built by Dutch artists Andrie and Alfons Kennis. Research including fossil anatomy and a detailed study of DNA is present in the color of the skin and eyes. (Photo by Joe McNally/Getty Images)

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The Naked Neanderthal review: Looking for the real Neanderthals

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A flint used to shape a wooden structure identified at the archaeological site Kalambo Falls in Zambia

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Earliest evidence of buildings made from wood is 476,000 years old

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Why the ancient hominins of Asia are so mysterious

When it comes to ancient humans in Asia, we have so many fossils and no consensus on how to make sense of them

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How artefacts are found tells its own story – if we want to hear it

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The untold story of the curiously controversial Homo floresiensis dig

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Ancient humans may have worn shoes more than 100,000 years ago

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Women and men throw spears equally well using ancient atlatl tool

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