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Three jawbones, including one from a child, teeth, vertebrae and a femur were unearthed from a cave in Morocco, dating back 773,000 years

Archaeological findings in Malawi reveal the earliest known intentional cremation in Africa, dating back 9,500 years.

Genetic evidence suggests people began transporting pigs much earlier than once thought

New Limb Evidence Confirms Sahelanthropus tchadensis as the Earliest Hominin Biped

Neanderthal nose wasn't adapted to cold climates

Neanderthals may have been "absorbed" rather than extinguished: A simple analytical model shows constant gene flow from larger Homo sapiens populations could explain the Neanderthal disappearance within 30,000 years.

Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought

Assembling the puzzle pieces: Integrating pottery and kiln analysis to reconstruct pyrotechnology at the Dinka Settlement Complex (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy

Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago

Intense droughts may have driven the extinction of human Hobbits

Archaeologists found evidence of a 7,000-year-old sunken city

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years

Intense decades-long droughts collapsed the advanced Harappan civilization

Ancient undersea wall dating to 5800 BCE discovered off the French coast

Little Foot hominin fossil may be new species of human ancestor

This little-known culture in Bronze Age Turkey might have been a major regional power

Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes - Nature

An expanse of ancient rock in the high-altitude Torotoro National Park in Bolivia has been revealed as the largest dinosaur tracksite ever recorded, with almost 18,000 individual dinosaur tracks.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world

The Disastrous Maya Collapse Knocked Down an Entire Network of Cities in Mesoamerica

Bones and teeth confirm 'Lucy' (Australopithecus afarensis) lived side by side with an even older human ancestor, Australopithecus deyiremeda, over 3.3 million years ago in Ethiopia's Afar Rift.

Scientists found 44,000-year-old fossil evidence in Belgium that six neanderthals, all women and children, were hunted and eaten by another group of neanderthals

Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists

Ancient Humans Introduced Wolves to Remote Baltic Sea Island 5,000 Years Ago

Fifteen millennia of human maternal lineages evolution in Sicily reveal a slow population replacement from hunther gatherers to farmers at the onset of Neolithic and continuity onward

Centuries of Black Death misinformation started with a poem

10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world

A new 3D model of the Rano Raraku volcano crater on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) created using 11,686 photographs taken by drone helps scientists map hundreds of statue extraction sites and provided testable hypotheses on how the statues were moved

A new analysis of 51 fossilized hominid teeth found lead has haunted us for almost 2 million years – but modern human brains seem better equipped to deal with it than Neanderthals.

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