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Artistic artefacts are rewriting the timeline of ancient South America

A slew of newly found artefacts in South America are revealing surprisingly familiar ways ancient people in the region expressed their creativity, including sculpted figurines, a communal drum and perhaps a previously unrecognised form of writing

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Ancient humans may have risked their lives making stone tools

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Metin Eren at Kent State University demonstrates flintknapping to make 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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Ljubljana Marshes Wheel with axle (oldest wooden wheel yet discovered)

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Can we ever know who invented the wheel?

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Quaternary Science Reviews reporting that people at the Border Cave site may have roasted and eaten snails 170,000 years ago.

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Ancient humans may have cooked and eaten snails 170,000 years ago

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HHXJTH Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

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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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Plaster bust of philosopher Anaximander and group of other busts. Portraits of ancient historical persons. Mass-product souvenir in Turkey. Copy space, selected focus; Shutterstock ID 2261783295; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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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

The bones of nine men from graves in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania show hallmarks of horse riding in the patterns of wear on their spines, legs and pelvises

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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 ‘Stonehenge of the North’ opens to UK public

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Milk may have fuelled a growth spurt in ancient Europeans

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