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Iron Age Britons may have removed the brains of the dead
Scrape marks inside a skull and sharpened limb bones in a set of remains found in Scotland may be evidence of unusual Iron Age funerary rituals
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Humans
What really happened when ancient humans migrated out of Africa
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Stonehenge’s altar stone probably wasn’t transported by a glacier
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Earliest use of anaesthetics uncovered in Chinese doctor鈥檚 tomb
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How a visit to Stonehenge reminded me of deep time
Culture
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Mystery of the ancient giant stone jars of Laos may have been solved
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The story of the first human tool: the humble container
Features
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Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence
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Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones
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A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began
A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words
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Life
Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
Features
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Historians dispute link between drought and rebellion in Roman Britain
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The Shroud of Turin bears DNA from many people, plants and animals
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Life
Oldest known dog extends the genetic history of our canine companions
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