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Early humans lived in Ethiopian highlands 2 million years ago

A child’s jawbone found in Ethiopia is one of the earliest fossils identified as Homo erectus, and shows ancient hominins settled in high-altitude areas

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Neanderthals hunted cave lions with spears and made use of their pelts

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Humans lived on Spanish plateau during Earth's last cold snap

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Read an extract from The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks

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Read an extract from The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks

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Sebastian Faulks: ‘Homo sapiens is a very odd creature’

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Sebastian Faulks: ‘Homo sapiens is a very odd creature’

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A human bone from up to 3900 BC found inside the Cueva de los Marmoles cave in Grenada, Spain

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Prehistoric people in Spain may have made tools from human bones

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The Neanderthal woman was re-created and built by Dutch artists Andrie and Alfons Kennis. Research including fossil anatomy and a detailed study of DNA is present in the color of the skin and eyes. (Photo by Joe McNally/Getty Images)

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The Naked Neanderthal review: Looking for the real Neanderthals

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A flint used to shape a wooden structure identified at the archaeological site Kalambo Falls in Zambia

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Earliest evidence of buildings made from wood is 476,000 years old

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Why the ancient hominins of Asia are so mysterious

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2PEK6YC Professor Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins at London's Natural History Museum, moves a cast taken from the a skull of what is said to be a new species in the evolution of man named 'Homo Floresiensis' during a news conference Wednesday Oct. 27, 2004. At left is a cast of Homo Sapiens skull. (AP Photo/Richard Lewis)

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How artefacts are found tells its own story – if we want to hear it

It is easy to overlook the circumstances surrounding the discovery of ancient artefacts, but the insight this gives us into modern lives is just as valuable as the find itself

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The untold story of the curiously controversial Homo floresiensis dig

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Ancient humans may have worn shoes more than 100,000 years ago

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Women and men throw spears equally well using ancient atlatl tool

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These ancient sand drawings could be a fifth type of palaeoart

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