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Sunrise over Ahu Tongariki Moai in Easter Island, Chile

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The societies proving that inequality and patriarchy aren't inevitable

Today’s complex societies are pretty homogeneous, but experimental cultures, past and present, teach us how to think more creatively about the way we live

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Artistic artefacts are rewriting the timeline of ancient South America

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Tam Pà Ling cave in northern Laos, where several human fossils dating back tens of thousands of years have been found

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Fossils in Laos cave imply modern humans were in Asia 86,000 years ago

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Metin Eren at Kent State University demonstrates flintknapping to make stone tools

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Ancient humans may have risked their lives making stone tools

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Humans were kissing at least 4500 years ago, reveal ancient texts

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Why we shouldn't fill our minds with endless tales of dystopia

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Ancient bacteria genome reconstructed from Neanderthal tooth gunk

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DNA from 25,000-year-old tooth pendant reveals woman who wore it

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Ljubljana Marshes Wheel with axle (oldest wooden wheel yet discovered)

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Can we ever know who invented the wheel?

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Quaternary Science Reviews reporting that people at the Border Cave site may have roasted and eaten snails 170,000 years ago.

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Ancient humans may have cooked and eaten snails 170,000 years ago

Snail shell fragments found in a cave in South Africa appear to have been heated, providing the earliest evidence for humans eating snails

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It's now or never – we need to achieve a sustainable human population

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The archaeologists recreating the secrets of prehistoric technology

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Stone flakes made by monkeys cast doubt on ancient human 'tools'

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Anaximander review: Did Anaximander create science, asks Carlo Rovelli

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