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The oldest wooden artifacts we have are mostly weapons. They include spears from a German town called Schöningen, a spear tip ...

Once formally proposed as Homo stupidus and portrayed as knuckle-dragging ape-men, Neanderthals are finally receiving their ...

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Dan Richards, a researcher and YouTube creator focused on alternative archaeology, returned to the Joe Rogan Experience to argue that the human ...

More than 40,000 years ago, bands of Neanderthals turned a spacious rock shelter in the mountains of Spain into a cozy home, ...

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Cell-based models of the human cortex transplanted into mice produce neurons that are inaccessible in vitro, and could enable scientists to link brain injury to behaviour.