Nobel Prize winner, Svante Pääbo, is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit
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Museum of Color - from ancient ochre to blacker than Vanta Black
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Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark
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A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans
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We found French underwear in an ancient Sumerian city | Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S10 Ep4
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Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago.
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Europe's undeciphered prehistoric tablets
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Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark – archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circle
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How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history
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Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States
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Advanced technology discovered under Neolithic dwelling in Denmark – a stone paved root cellar, which could represent a remarkable technological leap in resource preservation
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We may be close to rediscovering thousands of texts that had been lost for millennia. Their contents may reshape how we understand the Ancient World.
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The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong
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Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds
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How rediscovering Neanderthals primed us for the search for extraterrestrial life
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The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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Government without states (how to raise a tribal army in pre-Roman Europe, part II)
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Insular India - A video on the archaeological legacies of the Indian subcontinent
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On the nature of ancient evidence
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Ancient Beat - the newsletter of ancient history - celebrates its 100th Issue
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The Silk Road - Into far lands
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DNA from stone age chewing gum sheds light on diet and disease in Scandinavia's ancient hunter-gatherers
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Mysteries of Neolithic Europe
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Looking for recommendations of Bronze Age historical fiction
Basically what it says in the thread title- any recommendations are welcome.
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Ancient Beat - A weekly newsletter about developments in the study of the ancient world
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Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
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Long barrows are Neolithic constructions that might have been churches, or graveyards, or landmarks. And some are being built again: for the first time in recorded history.
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Ancient skull found in China is unlike any human seen before
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When did humans start settling down? In Israel, new discoveries at one of the world’s oldest villages are upending the debate about when we stopped wandering.
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Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn't drink milk
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Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb
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Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are
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Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved
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Did Neanderthals make art?
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You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.
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Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years
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High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel is ruled unlawful
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A Swedish orienteering enthusiast working on a map earlier in April stumbled across a stash of some fifty Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years
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Extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years
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Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge
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Truth and lies: Henrich Schliemann's excavations at Troy | Curator's Corner S05 E11
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Neolithic chewing gum helps recreate image of ancient Dane – analysis of birch tar describes a female hunter-gatherer with dark skin and blue eyes
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This island of Minos: Crete in the Bronze Age
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The missing link that wasn’t
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The Bronze Age of Scandinavia was made possible by trade with Great Britain
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Out of the cradle - a high quality, short, cgi film series about human prehistory
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New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines
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When we first made tools
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The Neanderthal renaissance
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Brain-imaging modern people making Stone Age tools hints at evolution of human intelligence
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