Humans
5000-year-old monument was built by a society without leaders
Why go to the effort to build a vast monument when you’re a wandering herder in a society of equals? A 5000-year-old burial site in Kenya offers some clues
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Mystery of Welsh bodies buried at Stonehenge as first stones arrived
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Earth
Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims
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Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming
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The amazing assortment of stuff at the bottom of one Amsterdam canal
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Record temperatures mean ancient forts become visible in fields
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Environment
Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty
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Ötzi the Iceman ran out of rock to make his tools before he died
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The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought
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Mystery of why Stone Age villagers spent so much time underwater
Half of the adults at a Stone Age village in Turkey had a strange ear condition most common today in keen surfers – but why did they spend so much time in water?
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Humans
Have humans been sailors for a million years?
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World’s most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran
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Harsh: Europe’s cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived
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Stem cells may reveal how Neanderthal DNA works in modern humans
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