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Facial Reconstruction Of 45,000-Year-Old Woman Models What Europe's First Humans Looked LikeFacial approximation of a Zlaty kun woman

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Facial Reconstruction Of 45,000-Year-Old Woman Models What Europe's First Humans Looked LikeFacial approximation of a Zlaty kun woman
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Facial Reconstruction Of 45,000-Year-Old Woman Models What Europe's First Humans Looked Like

clock-iconMay 25, 2026
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Neanderthal Kids In Germany May Have Hunted Tiny Turtles – But Probably Not To EatA European pond turtle sunning itself on a rock.

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Neanderthal Kids In Germany May Have Hunted Tiny Turtles – But Probably Not To EatA European pond turtle sunning itself on a rock.
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Neanderthal Kids In Germany May Have Hunted Tiny Turtles – But Probably Not To Eat

clock-iconApril 17, 2026

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Humans May Have Been Hunting With Bows And Arrows 40,000 Years AgoPrehistoric cave painting showing bow and arrow

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Humans May Have Been Hunting With Bows And Arrows 40,000 Years AgoPrehistoric cave painting showing bow and arrow
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Humans May Have Been Hunting With Bows And Arrows 40,000 Years Ago

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Previously Unknown Human Lineage Discovered In Northern East Asia Survived And Adapted After The "Ice Age" EndedA photo showing a large expanse of ice giving way to water by the shore. In the foreground to the bottom right is a mound of earth or bank with rocks sticking out it it. There is a clump of brown grass at the top of it. In the distance is a mountain range just below a thick line of low cloud.

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Previously Unknown Human Lineage Discovered In Northern East Asia Survived And Adapted After The "Ice Age" EndedA photo showing a large expanse of ice giving way to water by the shore. In the foreground to the bottom right is a mound of earth or bank with rocks sticking out it it. There is a clump of brown grass at the top of it. In the distance is a mountain range just below a thick line of low cloud.
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Previously Unknown Human Lineage Discovered In Northern East Asia Survived And Adapted After The "Ice Age" Ended

clock-iconApril 4, 2026

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Homo Erectus Made Handaxes With Fossils And Crystals As “Mediators Between Humans And The Cosmos”A Palaeolithic handaxe with a geode at its center

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Homo Erectus Made Handaxes With Fossils And Crystals As “Mediators Between Humans And The Cosmos”A Palaeolithic handaxe with a geode at its center
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Homo Erectus Made Handaxes With Fossils And Crystals As “Mediators Between Humans And The Cosmos”

clock-iconApril 3, 2026

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In 1939, Archaeologists Explored A Cave And Found A Mind-Blowing Sculpture Of A Lion-Human HybridThe lion man from the Stadel Cave in Hohlenstein, Lonetal.

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In 1939, Archaeologists Explored A Cave And Found A Mind-Blowing Sculpture Of A Lion-Human HybridThe lion man from the Stadel Cave in Hohlenstein, Lonetal.
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In 1939, Archaeologists Explored A Cave And Found A Mind-Blowing Sculpture Of A Lion-Human Hybrid

clock-iconJanuary 17, 2026
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The World’s Oldest 3D Map May Accompany Sexually Suggestive Cave Artlines etched into a cave floor, believed to represent a map (left); blocks of moss-covered sandstone outside La Ségognole 3 (right)

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The World’s Oldest 3D Map May Accompany Sexually Suggestive Cave Artlines etched into a cave floor, believed to represent a map (left); blocks of moss-covered sandstone outside La Ségognole 3 (right)
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The World’s Oldest 3D Map May Accompany Sexually Suggestive Cave Art

clock-iconJanuary 10, 2025
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15,800-Year-Old Sketches Reveal People Were Fishing With Nets Much Earlier Than Thought15,800-year-old engraving of a fish in a net

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15,800-Year-Old Sketches Reveal People Were Fishing With Nets Much Earlier Than Thought15,800-year-old engraving of a fish in a net
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15,800-Year-Old Sketches Reveal People Were Fishing With Nets Much Earlier Than Thought

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Palaeolithic Hunters May Have Used Poison Arrows 54,000 Years AgoPoison arrow

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Palaeolithic Hunters May Have Used Poison Arrows 54,000 Years AgoPoison arrow
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Palaeolithic Hunters May Have Used Poison Arrows 54,000 Years Ago

clock-iconSeptember 16, 2024
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Early Humans Hunted And Ate Beavers 400,000 Years Agoclose up of a beaver

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Early Humans Hunted And Ate Beavers 400,000 Years Agoclose up of a beaver
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Early Humans Hunted And Ate Beavers 400,000 Years Ago

clock-iconDecember 8, 2023
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New Animals Discovered In Rock Art Of Famous Prehistoric CaveA new figure, a large bovid that's possibly an aurochs, emerges from the rock art.

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New Animals Discovered In Rock Art Of Famous Prehistoric CaveA new figure, a large bovid that's possibly an aurochs, emerges from the rock art.
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New Animals Discovered In Rock Art Of Famous Prehistoric Cave

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Neanderthals Built Weird Structures Inside This Cave And We Don’t Know WhyBruniquel Neanderthal structures

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Neanderthals Built Weird Structures Inside This Cave And We Don’t Know WhyBruniquel Neanderthal structures
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Neanderthals Built Weird Structures Inside This Cave And We Don’t Know Why

clock-iconAugust 8, 2023
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Cosquer Cave Is Filled With Paintings, But The Only Entrance Is Deep Underwatercosquer cave

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Cosquer Cave Is Filled With Paintings, But The Only Entrance Is Deep Underwatercosquer cave
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Cosquer Cave Is Filled With Paintings, But The Only Entrance Is Deep Underwater

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New Way Of Aging Ancient Things Gets Thumbs Up In Homo Sapiens Caveradiocarbon 3.0

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New Way Of Aging Ancient Things Gets Thumbs Up In Homo Sapiens Caveradiocarbon 3.0
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New Way Of Aging Ancient Things Gets Thumbs Up In Homo Sapiens Cave

clock-iconFebruary 15, 2023
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Real "Paelo Diet" Was Probably Riddled With Toxic Metalsarticle image

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Real "Paelo Diet" Was Probably Riddled With Toxic Metalsarticle image
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Real "Paelo Diet" Was Probably Riddled With Toxic Metals

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