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Prehistoric dart-throwing atlatl weapon even more deadly than thought

Tests of the prehistoric atlatl on a bison carcass recorded using a high-speed camera show the weapon could be very effective at bringing down large animals by puncturing their vital organs

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Bisonte Magdaleniense pol?cromo

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When did humans start making art and were Neanderthals artists too?

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side view of ancient skull

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Ancient DNA adds to evidence for Native Americans' east Asian ancestry

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Ancient footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park.

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Ice Age Footprints review: Ancient humans’ arrival in North America

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People instinctively run at their most energy-efficient speed

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Ancient footprints are a welcome new window on ancient people's lives

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Ancient footprints show children splashed in puddles 11,500 years ago

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How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life

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How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life

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RCHDGR . Die Pithecanthropus-Schichten auf Java. Geologische und palaontologische Ergebnisse der Trinil-Expedition (1907 und 1908), ausgefuhrt mit Unterstutzung der Akademischen Jubilaumsstiftung der Stadt Berlin und der Koniglich bayerischen Akademi der Wissenschaften. Geology; Paleontology; Homo erectus. Sdenka-Trinu-Expedition. Tafel III.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Selenka, Lenore; Blanckenhorn, Max Ludwig

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Fate of buried Java Man revealed in unseen notes from Homo erectus dig

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Visualizing inferred human ancestral lineages over time and space. Each line represents an ancestor-descendant relationship in our inferred genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. The width of a line corresponds to how many times the relationship is observed, and lines are colored on the basis of the estimated age of the ancestor.

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Largest ever family tree of humanity reveals our species' history

A genealogy of humans constructed from thousands of genomes gives us clues about where our species first evolved and how we spread across the world

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Modern humans moved into cave one year after Neanderthals abandoned it

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160,000-year-old fossil may be the first Denisovan skull we've found

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Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

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Bronze Age migration may have brought Celtic languages to Britain

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