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Disputed finds in South America more than 22,000 years old
Stone tools unearthed at a Brazilian rock-shelter may date from at least 22,000 years ago, adding to evidence from nearby sites challenging the longstanding view of Clovis people as the...
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Migration to Marianas longest ocean-crossing in history
The establishment of human settlements in the Marianas 3,500 years ago required long-distance migration, and may have involved the longest ocean-crossing in human history at that time. Dr Michael T...
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Stone-Age skeletons unearthed in Sahara desert
Archaeologists have uncovered 20 Stone-Age skeletons in and around a rock shelter in Libya's Sahara desert. The skeletons date between 8,000 and 4,200 years ago. The team concluded that the...
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'Stone ships' in Baltic were built by maritime groups
In the middle of the Bronze Age, around 1000 BCE, the amount of metal objects increased dramatically in the Baltic Sea region. Around the same time, a new type of...
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Skulls of early humans carry signs of inbreeding
Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might...
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Quarry dig unearths Neolithic settlement in Berkshire
Four Neolithic houses found in a Berkshire quarry are thought to make up one of the oldest permanent settlements ever found in England. Archaeologists unearthed the 5,700-year-old foundations at Kingsmead...
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Donkeys were a Bronze Age status symbol
Donkeys have long been thought to be just beasts of burden, sturdy and simple. A recent discovery in Israel may put an end to that myth. The discovery occurred near...
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Were Neanderthals fitter than Olympic athletes?
New studies published by the University of Cambridge (UK) show that Stone Age man was much fitter than originally thought. Colin Shaw and Jay Stock, who are biological anthropologists at...
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Maize was key in early Andean civilisation
New evidence strengthens the argument that maize played an important role in ancient Peruvian civilisation 5,000 years ago. Samples taken from pollen records, stone tool residues and fossilised faeces suggest...
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Police return smuggled Neolithic artefacts to Kosovo
Seven artefacts dating as far back as 4,000 BCE to the Neolithic period, and thought to belong to the Vinca, a prehistoric culture that traces back to 5,500 BCE in...
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Dig in Micronesia pushes settlement back 3400 years
An Australian team of archaeologists have uncovered evidence of human burials and early settlement in the Northern Marianas islands group, which includes Guam and Saipan and many other open Pacific...
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Evolution and the Ice Age
Dr Stewart has studied ancient ecosystems and the evolution of humans and other organisms over the past 100,000 years, using existing knowledge of the spread of plant and animal species...
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Bronze Age boat to be launched in Cornwall
A unique project to recreate a 4000 year old boat will reach its dramatic conclusion on Wednesday 6 March as she is launched into the waters of Falmouth Harbour (Cornwall,...
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Prehistoric necropolis discovered in Romania
A team of archaeologists led by Professor Florin Drasovean made an impressive archaeological discovery in the the highway section Lugoj - Deva in Romania. The 50 tombs discovered in the...
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Conservation work of a Macedonian site is under way
Work on preserving the ancient observatory at Kokino, 30km from Kumanovo, in northern Macedonia, will finish this year, the National Museum in Kumanovo announced. "Works include the outer wall as...
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Most Upper Paleolithic human burials were simple
A new study from the University of Colorado Denver shows that the earliest human burial practices in Eurasia varied widely, with some graves lavish and ornate while the vast majority...
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Piecing together the prehistory of the Himalayas
A team of archaeologists from the University of York are to discover, survey, and record mountain archaeology in the Nepalese Himalayas. The Himalayan Exploration and Archaeological Research Team (HEART) will...
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Farming arrived in Europe with migrants
New data gleaned from the teeth of prehistoric farmers and the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers with whom they briefly overlapped shows that agriculture was introduced to Central Europe from the Near East...
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Earlier Neanderthal demise suggested
A international team led by study co-author Jesus Jorda, of the Spanish National University in Madrid, challenges the hypothesis that Neanderthals persisted in southern Iberia and were contemporary with modern...
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Amazing find in Dartmoor Bronze Age grave
A rare discovery dating back 4,000 years has been described as the most significant find on Dartmoor (Devon, England), and has given archaeologists a glimpse into the lives of the...
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