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Group of modified swords analysed with neutron tomography

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Many Iron Age swords may be tainted by modern forgery

Ancient weaponsmiths combined bronze and iron to fashion swords during the early Iron Age 鈥� but modern forgers glue together elements from different weapons, making it difficult for researchers to study the ancient technology

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The archaeologist fighting claims about an advanced lost civilisation

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Neanderthals hunt a cave bear.

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Gravity may explain why Neanderthals failed to adopt advanced weaponry

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A cave in France is revealing how the Neanderthals died out

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Ancient DNA tells story of toddler who lived in Italy 17,000 years ago

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Forests became less diverse when ancient people started herding pigs

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Genome of Neanderthal fossil reveals lost tribe cut off for millennia

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When did humans leave the trees for the savannah 鈥� or did they at all?

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Altamura skeleton, displaying the same type of popcorn coralloid concretions. The two specimens are located in two separate parts of the cave. Not in scale. Photos by CB.

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Why the amazing Altamura Man fossil remains a mystery

A Neanderthal skeleton was discovered encased in rock in an Italian cave 30 years ago, but it hasn鈥檛 been studied much due to a long-running impasse about how to safely excavate it

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Hobbit hominins from Indonesia may have had even smaller ancestors

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What made us human? The fossils redefining our evolutionary origins

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Egyptian pyramid may have been built using a water-powered elevator

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Butchered bones hint humans were in South America 21,000 years ago

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