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The polished surface was a sure sign this was no natural fragment. Australian Archaeology, Author provided Peter Hiscock, University of Sydney The discovery of evidence of the world’s oldest axe is reported by my colleagues and I in a paper published in Australian...
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Shutterstock Joshua Kumbani, University of the Witwatersrand Music has been part and parcel of humanity for a long time. Not every sound is musical, but sound has meaning and sometimes the meaning of sound is specific to its context. But when it comes to archaeology...
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Looking for food, water and maybe adventure? Unsplash Michelle Langley, Griffith University Can you imagine walking 14,000km? Trekking across wide savannas, down creek beds, along mountain chains in terrain that is new and home to foreign types of plants and animals?...
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Excavating Nok terracotta figurines at the research site. Peter Breunig Julie Dunne, University of Bristol The honeybee is the world’s most important pollinator of food crops and beekeeping plays an important global economic role. Around 1.6 million tonnes of honey is...
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An Oldowan core freshly excavated at Ain Boucherit from which sharp-edged cutting flakes were removed. M. Sahnouni John McNabb, University of Southampton East Africa is famously the birthplace of humankind and the location where our ancient hominin ancestors first...
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Together with artifacts from the past, ancient DNA can fill in details about our ancient ancestors. Nina R/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Elizabeth Sawchuk, University of Alberta; Jessica Thompson, Yale University, and Mary Prendergast, Rice University Every person alive on...