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Cryptic Engravings On 9,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Hint At Unique Neolithic Traditions, But Archaeologists Can’t Figure Out What They MeanPrehistoric obsidian arrowhead

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Cryptic Engravings On 9,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Hint At Unique Neolithic Traditions, But Archaeologists Can’t Figure Out What They MeanPrehistoric obsidian arrowhead
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Cryptic Engravings On 9,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Hint At Unique Neolithic Traditions, But Archaeologists Can’t Figure Out What They Mean

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Desert-Dwelling Neanderthals? Extinct Human Relatives May Have Ventured Into Arabia 55,000 Years Ago, Way Further South Than ThoughtA family of camels in the Nafud desert in Arabia

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Desert-Dwelling Neanderthals? Extinct Human Relatives May Have Ventured Into Arabia 55,000 Years Ago, Way Further South Than ThoughtA family of camels in the Nafud desert in Arabia
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Desert-Dwelling Neanderthals? Extinct Human Relatives May Have Ventured Into Arabia 55,000 Years Ago, Way Further South Than Thought

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Fire May Have Transformed Humans From Daytime Creatures Into 24-Hour Animals… Kind Of Like Lemurs2477 activity pattern

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Fire May Have Transformed Humans From Daytime Creatures Into 24-Hour Animals… Kind Of Like Lemurs2477 activity pattern
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Fire May Have Transformed Humans From Daytime Creatures Into 24-Hour Animals… Kind Of Like Lemurs

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Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess. One Anthropologist Proposes A Shake-Up Of Our Family TreeA picture of the human family tree on display at the Natural History Museum, London.

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Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess. One Anthropologist Proposes A Shake-Up Of Our Family TreeA picture of the human family tree on display at the Natural History Museum, London.
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Hominin Taxonomy Is A Hot Mess. One Anthropologist Proposes A Shake-Up Of Our Family Tree

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Clues Hidden In Ancient Egyptian Princesses’ Remains Show They Were “Active Ritual Agents,” Hunters, And Enforcers Of Divine Ordera dagger with an ornate blue handle and a row of arrows

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Clues Hidden In Ancient Egyptian Princesses’ Remains Show They Were “Active Ritual Agents,” Hunters, And Enforcers Of Divine Ordera dagger with an ornate blue handle and a row of arrows
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Clues Hidden In Ancient Egyptian Princesses’ Remains Show They Were “Active Ritual Agents,” Hunters, And Enforcers Of Divine Order

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A Rockfall Blocked This Cave Entrance, Preserving A Stone Age Dwelling Exactly As It Was Left 17,000 Years AgoStructures of the Zone IV from the Lower Gallery of La Garma.

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A Rockfall Blocked This Cave Entrance, Preserving A Stone Age Dwelling Exactly As It Was Left 17,000 Years AgoStructures of the Zone IV from the Lower Gallery of La Garma.
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A Rockfall Blocked This Cave Entrance, Preserving A Stone Age Dwelling Exactly As It Was Left 17,000 Years Ago

clock-iconAugust 12, 2026

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The First Ever Leg Bones Of The Mysterious Denisovans Have Been Identified From Fossils Dredged From The Seafloora mysterious abtract human face, with red coloring

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The First Ever Leg Bones Of The Mysterious Denisovans Have Been Identified From Fossils Dredged From The Seafloora mysterious abtract human face, with red coloring
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The First Ever Leg Bones Of The Mysterious Denisovans Have Been Identified From Fossils Dredged From The Seafloor

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55,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones Showing Signs Of Butchery May Hint At Repeated Episodes Of CannibalismNeanderthal skull

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55,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones Showing Signs Of Butchery May Hint At Repeated Episodes Of CannibalismNeanderthal skull
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55,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones Showing Signs Of Butchery May Hint At Repeated Episodes Of Cannibalism

clock-iconAugust 8, 2026

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Putting This Neanderthal Gene In Mouse Cells Helped Them Grow. It Seems To Make Modern Humans Bigger And More Muscular TooModel of a Neanderthal Dusseldorf, Germany, February 16, 2024, Neanderthal Museum

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Putting This Neanderthal Gene In Mouse Cells Helped Them Grow. It Seems To Make Modern Humans Bigger And More Muscular TooModel of a Neanderthal Dusseldorf, Germany, February 16, 2024, Neanderthal Museum
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Putting This Neanderthal Gene In Mouse Cells Helped Them Grow. It Seems To Make Modern Humans Bigger And More Muscular Too

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Men Evolved A Unique Pelvis That Puts A Spring In Their Step, But Women Have The Same Pelvis As NeanderthalsHuman pelvis

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Men Evolved A Unique Pelvis That Puts A Spring In Their Step, But Women Have The Same Pelvis As NeanderthalsHuman pelvis
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Men Evolved A Unique Pelvis That Puts A Spring In Their Step, But Women Have The Same Pelvis As Neanderthals

clock-iconAugust 6, 2026
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Homo Erectus And Hobbit Humans May Have Had To Protect Their Helpless Babies From Leopards, Tigers And Komodo DragonsArtist's impression of Homo erectus parents caring for baby and child

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Homo Erectus And Hobbit Humans May Have Had To Protect Their Helpless Babies From Leopards, Tigers And Komodo DragonsArtist's impression of Homo erectus parents caring for baby and child
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Homo Erectus And Hobbit Humans May Have Had To Protect Their Helpless Babies From Leopards, Tigers And Komodo Dragons

clock-iconAugust 1, 2026

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Footprints On A 1.43-Million-Year-Old Shoreline Have Anthropologists Questioning If We’ve Underestimated Early Hominin’s SizeThis 1.43-million-year-old hominin footprint from Koobi Fora, Kenya is either from a H. erectus with surprisingly splayed toes, or a giant Paranthropus

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Footprints On A 1.43-Million-Year-Old Shoreline Have Anthropologists Questioning If We’ve Underestimated Early Hominin’s SizeThis 1.43-million-year-old hominin footprint from Koobi Fora, Kenya is either from a H. erectus with surprisingly splayed toes, or a giant Paranthropus
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Footprints On A 1.43-Million-Year-Old Shoreline Have Anthropologists Questioning If We’ve Underestimated Early Hominin’s Size

clock-iconJuly 31, 2026

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Identities Of Mysterious "Ghost Lineages" – Groups Of Ancient Hominins That Bred With Our Ancestors – Narrowed Down By New TechniqueSculpture of a human walking among the clouds

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Identities Of Mysterious "Ghost Lineages" – Groups Of Ancient Hominins That Bred With Our Ancestors – Narrowed Down By New TechniqueSculpture of a human walking among the clouds
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Identities Of Mysterious "Ghost Lineages" – Groups Of Ancient Hominins That Bred With Our Ancestors – Narrowed Down By New Technique

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Two Tiny Ivory Figurines Dating Back 40,000 Years Add To Enduring Mystery Of Why There Are So Few Birds Depicted In Ice Age ArtTwo ivory figurines of birds. The one on the left has its back to us showing patterned feathers on its wings, the one of the right is flatter and has a little beak and eyes.

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Two Tiny Ivory Figurines Dating Back 40,000 Years Add To Enduring Mystery Of Why There Are So Few Birds Depicted In Ice Age ArtTwo ivory figurines of birds. The one on the left has its back to us showing patterned feathers on its wings, the one of the right is flatter and has a little beak and eyes.
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Two Tiny Ivory Figurines Dating Back 40,000 Years Add To Enduring Mystery Of Why There Are So Few Birds Depicted In Ice Age Art

clock-iconJuly 31, 2026

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Prehistoric Rock Art Has An “Organizational Grammar”, And May Have Been Used For Communicative And Ritual PurposesMagdalenian rock art from Ekain Cave

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Prehistoric Rock Art Has An “Organizational Grammar”, And May Have Been Used For Communicative And Ritual PurposesMagdalenian rock art from Ekain Cave
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Prehistoric Rock Art Has An “Organizational Grammar”, And May Have Been Used For Communicative And Ritual Purposes

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