Ancient Humans
The remarkable completeness and great age of the Little Foot skeleton makes it a crucially important specimen in human origins research
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Findings help dispel the view that Australia's first peoples were 'only hunter gatherers'
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The origin, spread, evolution, and ecological adaptation of cultivated rice is still one of the most important issues thatcurrently concern global archaeologists, biologists, and agricultural scientists
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A study of ancient herbivore teeth reveals why a now submerged section of South Africa's coastline enabled ancient animals and humans to flourish
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Researchers reveal a new microstructural marker for malting in the archaeological record
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A new study on the microbiomes of our ancestors offers hypotheses about the influence of microbes on our early social and daily lives
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Preserved as pieces of charcoal, the morsels were recovered from the debris of ancient cooking hearths at the Madjedbebe archaeological site
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A team of international researchers dug deep to find some of the oldest African DNA on record, in a new study published in Nature
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A new study shows the process was not started by our own species, but by some of our ancestors
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During excavations on Lolland, archaeologists found a 5,700-year-old type of "chewing gum" made from birch pitch
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