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BEAMBN Tibetan plateau scenery en route from Shegar to Tingri, Tibet

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How prehistoric people settled one of Earth’s most extreme places

Archaeologists previously believed the Tibetan plateau was one of the last places to be settled by humans or hominins – over the past couple of decades that notion has been slowly but comprehensively blown apart

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We are hopeless at telling when we have goosebumps

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Ancient humans hunted animals by throwing a stick like a boomerang

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Sunrise over Ahu Tongariki Moai in Easter Island, Chile

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The societies proving that inequality and patriarchy aren't inevitable

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Artistic artefacts are rewriting the timeline of ancient South America

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Tam Pà Ling cave in northern Laos, where several human fossils dating back tens of thousands of years have been found

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Fossils in Laos cave imply modern humans were in Asia 86,000 years ago

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Metin Eren at Kent State University demonstrates flintknapping to make stone tools

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Ancient humans may have risked their lives making stone tools

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Humans were kissing at least 4500 years ago, reveal ancient texts

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D4A3HW Billboard in London Bridge advertising the Channel 4 series Black Mirror

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Why we shouldn't fill our minds with endless tales of dystopia

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Ancient bacteria genome reconstructed from Neanderthal tooth gunk

Researchers pieced together the genomes of two unknown species of green sulphur bacteria from DNA fragments found in ancient calcified tooth plaque

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DNA from 25,000-year-old tooth pendant reveals woman who wore it

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Can we ever know who invented the wheel?

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Ancient humans may have cooked and eaten snails 170,000 years ago

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It's now or never – we need to achieve a sustainable human population

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