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Neanderthal groups had their own local food culture

A comparison of cut marks on bones reveals that Neanderthal groups living fairly close to each other had their own distinct ways of butchering animals

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'Hybrid' skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens

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Neanderthals had a 'fat factory' where they processed bones for grease

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A Neanderthal-shaped skull may explain why some people get headaches

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The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn’t conquer the world

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The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn’t conquer the world

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Has a volcanic eruption ever wiped out a species of hominins?

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How DNA in dirt is reshaping our understanding of Stone Age humans

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Ancient genomes reveal when modern humans and Neanderthals interbred

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Game-changing archaeology from the past 5 years – and what’s to come

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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age

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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

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A cave in France is revealing how the Neanderthals died out

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Rachel Kushner’s Booker-shortlisted Creation Lake is top-notch

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Genome of Neanderthal fossil reveals lost tribe cut off for millennia

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