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The societies proving that inequality and patriarchy aren’t inevitable
Today鈥檚 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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Ancient humans may have risked their lives making stone tools
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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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Can we ever know who invented the wheel?
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Ancient humans may have cooked and eaten snails 170,000 years ago
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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
Ancient philosopher Anaximander's discoveries about rain, wind and the cosmos may make him the true force behind modern science, argues physicist Carlo Rovelli in his newly republished first book
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Earliest signs of horse riding found in 5000-year-old human remains
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Some of the earliest modern humans in Europe used bows and arrows
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Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools
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Neolithic complex dubbed 鈥楽tonehenge of the North鈥� opens to UK public
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