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Ancient hunters may have used throwing spears 300,000 years ago
Preserved wooden spears from hundreds of thousands of years ago seem to have been suitable for throwing, not just close-range attacks
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Most Europeans may have had dark skin until less than 3000 years ago
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The story of ancient Mesopotamia and the dawn of the modern world
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Fossil proteins may soon reveal how we’re related to Australopithecus
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Enigmatic people who took over Europe millennia ago came from Ukraine
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Has a volcanic eruption ever wiped out a species of hominins?
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Ancient humans understood the future and the past pretty much as we do
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How DNA in dirt is reshaping our understanding of Stone Age humans
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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
Researchers have tried to work out how fast Australopithecus afarensis could run by creating a 3D digital robot of the ancient hominin
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Ancient genomes reveal when modern humans and Neanderthals interbred
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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 鈥� and what鈥檚 to come
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Toddler bones show mammoths were the main food of the first Americans
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