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How DNA in dirt is reshaping our understanding of Stone Age humans

The surprise discovery that ancient human DNA can survive in sediments and soil is revolutionising the study of Paleolithic minds, behaviours and lifestyles

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Engaging new podcast asks what the big things are that make us human

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Engaging new podcast asks what the big things are that make us human

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Ancient hominin Lucy was a lousy runner, simulations show

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Ancient genomes reveal when modern humans and Neanderthals interbred

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Could hibernation technology allow humans to skip winters?

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Could hibernation technology allow humans to skip winters?

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High-tech archaeology shows we aren't the first to endure hard times

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Game-changing archaeology from the past 5 years – and what’s to come

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An artist's reconstruction of the toddler with his mother consuming mammoth meat

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Toddler bones show mammoths were the main food of the first Americans

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Mesopotamians felt happiness in their liver and anger in their thighs

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How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the scientists who have studied her say that this fossil gave us a misleading image of the nature of her species

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People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson

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Creation Lake author Rachel Kushner on the 'ultimate writer's task'

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Ancient Egyptians shaped sheep's horns – and we don't know why

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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

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