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Thousands of Denisovan tools reveal their Stone Age technologies
A cache of Denisovan tools shows how these extinct humans moved from using sharp stone flakes 150,000 years ago to stone blades and chisels around 60,000 years ago
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Ancient people tried to stop rising seas with spears or fiery boulders
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Who invented the alphabet? The untold story of a linguistic revolution
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Stone Age replica raft almost ready to repeat epic prehistoric voyage
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Ancient well may be the world’s oldest wooden architectural structure
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Listen to the groaning voice of a 3000-year-old Egyptian mummy
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The epic ocean journey that took Stone Age people to Australia
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Ancient Romans may have used Chinese medicine to treat coeliac disease
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Earliest roasted root vegetables found in 170,000-year-old cave dirt
Charred fragments found in a cave in southern Africa suggest that the real 鈥減aleo diet鈥� included lots of roasted root vegetables that were rich in carbohydrates
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Ancient monkey painting suggests Bronze Age Greeks travelled widely
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Lost Ethiopian town comes from an ancient empire that rivalled Rome
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Reconstructing ancient technology: How our ancestors made tools
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Ancient puppy found in permafrost still has its fur and whiskers
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