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DNA from 25,000-year-old tooth pendant reveals woman who wore it
A new technique for extracting DNA from ancient artefacts without destroying them could give us unprecedented insights about the people who made or wore them
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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
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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
Two sections of the Thornborough Henges near Ripon, UK, have been donated to the public body Historic England in an effort to preserve the millennia-old monuments
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Milk may have fuelled a growth spurt in ancient Europeans
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Mysterious symbols in cave paintings may be earliest form of writing
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When did hominins start cooking? It might be earlier than we thought
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We have finally found the land of Punt, where pharaohs got their gifts
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