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A Cave Reveals 400,000-Year-Old Pre-Neanderthal "Complex Culture" That Foreshadowed Our Own FutureThe cave is located on the outskirts of Fureidis, a town south of Haifa in northern Israel.

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A Cave Reveals 400,000-Year-Old Pre-Neanderthal "Complex Culture" That Foreshadowed Our Own FutureThe cave is located on the outskirts of Fureidis, a town south of Haifa in northern Israel.
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A Cave Reveals 400,000-Year-Old Pre-Neanderthal "Complex Culture" That Foreshadowed Our Own Future

clock-iconJune 30, 2026
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“We Have No Idea What The Hell They Were Using”: Lethal Mammoth-Hunting Weapon Probably Wasn’t Part Of The Clovis ArsenalA prehistoric atlatl

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“We Have No Idea What The Hell They Were Using”: Lethal Mammoth-Hunting Weapon Probably Wasn’t Part Of The Clovis ArsenalA prehistoric atlatl
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“We Have No Idea What The Hell They Were Using”: Lethal Mammoth-Hunting Weapon Probably Wasn’t Part Of The Clovis Arsenal

clock-iconJune 29, 2026
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Neanderthals And Modern Humans Reached The Same Funerary Milestone At The Same Time And Place – Why?preserved burial site with human skeleton from Neanderthal era

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Neanderthals And Modern Humans Reached The Same Funerary Milestone At The Same Time And Place – Why?preserved burial site with human skeleton from Neanderthal era
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Neanderthals And Modern Humans Reached The Same Funerary Milestone At The Same Time And Place – Why?

clock-iconJune 29, 2026

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Deep In The Amazon Sits A Spectacular Wall Of Rock Art. Its Prehistoric Hand Stencils May Depict “Shamanic Knowledge”Prehistoric hand stencils from Cueva de las Manos

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Deep In The Amazon Sits A Spectacular Wall Of Rock Art. Its Prehistoric Hand Stencils May Depict “Shamanic Knowledge”Prehistoric hand stencils from Cueva de las Manos
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Deep In The Amazon Sits A Spectacular Wall Of Rock Art. Its Prehistoric Hand Stencils May Depict “Shamanic Knowledge”

clock-iconJune 25, 2026
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“It's Almost Certainly Some Sort Of Complex Cultural Signal”: Every Homo Naledi Skeleton Ever Found Turns Out To Be Female, Hinting At Sex-Specific Burial PracticesHomo naledi skull.

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“It's Almost Certainly Some Sort Of Complex Cultural Signal”: Every Homo Naledi Skeleton Ever Found Turns Out To Be Female, Hinting At Sex-Specific Burial PracticesHomo naledi skull.
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“It's Almost Certainly Some Sort Of Complex Cultural Signal”: Every Homo Naledi Skeleton Ever Found Turns Out To Be Female, Hinting At Sex-Specific Burial Practices

clock-iconJune 24, 2026

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Ancient DNA Of The Last Northwestern Neanderthals Shoots Down A Leading Theory Of Why They Went ExtinctNeanderthals were skilled hunters of mammoth and other Ice Age megafauna

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Ancient DNA Of The Last Northwestern Neanderthals Shoots Down A Leading Theory Of Why They Went ExtinctNeanderthals were skilled hunters of mammoth and other Ice Age megafauna
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Ancient DNA Of The Last Northwestern Neanderthals Shoots Down A Leading Theory Of Why They Went Extinct

clock-iconJune 24, 2026
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Ancient Human Ancestors Got Substantially Bigger 2 Million Years Ago – When They Started Walking Upright And Eating MeatHomo erectus skull from Tautavel

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Ancient Human Ancestors Got Substantially Bigger 2 Million Years Ago – When They Started Walking Upright And Eating MeatHomo erectus skull from Tautavel
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Ancient Human Ancestors Got Substantially Bigger 2 Million Years Ago – When They Started Walking Upright And Eating Meat

clock-iconJune 23, 2026
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Homo Naledi's Brain Was Wired Up In An Unusual Way – Did That Make It Capable Of Burying Its Dead?Homo naledi skull

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Homo Naledi's Brain Was Wired Up In An Unusual Way – Did That Make It Capable Of Burying Its Dead?Homo naledi skull
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Homo Naledi's Brain Was Wired Up In An Unusual Way – Did That Make It Capable Of Burying Its Dead?

clock-iconJune 22, 2026

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The Mystery Of Thorin: For 50,000 Years, A Cave-Dwelling Population Of Neanderthals Stayed Isolated From Their PeersThe maxilla (upper jawbone) of Thorin.

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The Mystery Of Thorin: For 50,000 Years, A Cave-Dwelling Population Of Neanderthals Stayed Isolated From Their PeersThe maxilla (upper jawbone) of Thorin.
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The Mystery Of Thorin: For 50,000 Years, A Cave-Dwelling Population Of Neanderthals Stayed Isolated From Their Peers

clock-iconJune 22, 2026
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100,000-Year-Old Symbolic Carvings Weren’t An Early Form Of Written Communication – New Study Adds To Hot Debate100,000-year-old engraved artifacts from South Africa

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100,000-Year-Old Symbolic Carvings Weren’t An Early Form Of Written Communication – New Study Adds To Hot Debate100,000-year-old engraved artifacts from South Africa
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100,000-Year-Old Symbolic Carvings Weren’t An Early Form Of Written Communication – New Study Adds To Hot Debate

clock-iconJune 18, 2026

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Skeleton Of Unborn Neanderthal Helps Reveal How They Developed In The WombFetus in the womb

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Skeleton Of Unborn Neanderthal Helps Reveal How They Developed In The WombFetus in the womb
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Skeleton Of Unborn Neanderthal Helps Reveal How They Developed In The Womb

clock-iconJune 17, 2026

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In The World’s Most Remote Prehistoric Settlement, People Ate Polar Bears, Invented Dog Sledding, And Traded Obsidian Over 1,500 KilometersDogs pulling sledge beneath the Northern Lights

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In The World’s Most Remote Prehistoric Settlement, People Ate Polar Bears, Invented Dog Sledding, And Traded Obsidian Over 1,500 KilometersDogs pulling sledge beneath the Northern Lights
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In The World’s Most Remote Prehistoric Settlement, People Ate Polar Bears, Invented Dog Sledding, And Traded Obsidian Over 1,500 Kilometers

clock-iconJune 16, 2026

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In 1926, Archaeologists Found The Skull Of The “Devil's Tower Child" Neanderthal And Changed Everything We Knew About This Extinct Human SpeciesNeanderthal adult and child

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In 1926, Archaeologists Found The Skull Of The “Devil's Tower Child" Neanderthal And Changed Everything We Knew About This Extinct Human SpeciesNeanderthal adult and child
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In 1926, Archaeologists Found The Skull Of The “Devil's Tower Child" Neanderthal And Changed Everything We Knew About This Extinct Human Species

clock-iconJune 12, 2026

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Earliest Evidence For Fire Use Suggests Homo Erectus May Have Transported Flames 1.79 Million Years AgoPrehistoric human with burning torch

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Earliest Evidence For Fire Use Suggests Homo Erectus May Have Transported Flames 1.79 Million Years AgoPrehistoric human with burning torch
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Earliest Evidence For Fire Use Suggests Homo Erectus May Have Transported Flames 1.79 Million Years Ago

clock-iconJune 11, 2026

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Neanderthals Ate Maggots And Mosquitoes, But Prehistoric European Humans Couldn’t Stomach BugsFried grasshoppers

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Neanderthals Ate Maggots And Mosquitoes, But Prehistoric European Humans Couldn’t Stomach BugsFried grasshoppers
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Neanderthals Ate Maggots And Mosquitoes, But Prehistoric European Humans Couldn’t Stomach Bugs

clock-iconJune 5, 2026
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