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All mines need regular reinforcement against collapse, and Hallstatt, the world’s oldest salt mine perched in the Austrian Alps, is no exception. But Hallstatt...
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Cro-Magnon man had a face covered in lumps including a large one on his forehead — likely benign tumours caused by a genetic disease,...
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No longer can the tale of one single human migration out of Africa 60,000 years ago be considered an accurate history of humankind, said...
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The skull of an infant ape buried by a volcano 13 million years ago has preserved intriguing clues about the ancestor humans shared with...
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Last week’s unveiling of the oldest-known Homo sapiens’ remains has painted an excitingly chaotic picture of what Earth was like 300,000 years ago —...
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The unveiling of the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains has painted an excitingly chaotic picture of what Earth was like 300,000 years ago — bustling...
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An “obsession” with the lower jaw of a long-dead human, unearthed in the 1960s at a prehistoric Moroccan campsite, led palaeoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin to...
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The discovery of a 400,000-year-old half skull in Portugal has offered tantalizing hints about a possible ancestor of the Neanderthals, researchers said Monday. The...
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Deep in the caves of Goyet in Belgium researchers have found the grisly evidence that the Neanderthals did not just feast on horses or...
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Strong fists for defending ourselves and opposable thumbs for work as fine as threading a needle — hand specialisation is widely believed to have...