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 (Europe's last glacial era)
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Scientists Found a Neanderthal Population That Lived in Total Isolation for 50,000 Years zmescience.com/science/anthr…
Scientists Found a Neanderthal Population That Lived in Total Isolation for 50,000 Years

Scientists Found a Neanderthal Population That Lived in Total Isolation for 50,000 Years

A fossil in France rewrites what we know about Neanderthal isolation and extinction

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The longest prehistoric journey undertaken by humans lasted thousands of years and spanned several generations labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/0…
The longest prehistoric journey undertaken by humans lasted thousands of years and spanned several...

The longest prehistoric journey undertaken by humans lasted thousands of years and spanned several...

An international team of scientists has managed to reconstruct the longest prehistoric journey ever undertaken by humans, carried out by the first Asians as they embarked on a journey of more than...

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Exit From Africa: Hominins Could Have Been Leaving for 8 Million Years haaretz.com/archaeology/2025…
Exit from Africa: Hominins could have been leaving for 8 million years

Exit from Africa: Hominins could have been leaving for 8 million years

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Neanderthal in a new light: An ancient weapon lost for 80,000 years resurfaces, and it’s a scientific bombshell futura-sciences.com/en/neand…
Neanderthal in a new light: An ancient weapon lost for 80,000 years resurfaces, and it’s a scient...

Neanderthal in a new light: An ancient weapon lost for 80,000 years resurfaces, and it’s a scient...

The recent discovery of a bone spearpoint dating back 80,000 years reveals that Neanderthals were using advanced tool-making techniques long before Homo sapiens arrived in Europe. In 2003, archaeol...

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A 28,000-year-old 'hybrid child' confirms interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals earth.com/news/28000-year-ol…
A 28,000-year-old 'hybrid child' confirms interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals

A 28,000-year-old 'hybrid child' confirms interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals

28,000-year-old hybrid child found; new dating confirms crossbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals.

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Stone tools created 400,000 years show technological advancement of early humans earth.com/news/stone-tools-f…

Stone tools created 400,000 years ago show tech advancement of early humans

Every chip of flint or shard of bone builds a narrative of how early humans used tools to feed themselves and cooperated to form societies.

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Silent Switches in DNA Gave Rise to Human Intelligence neurosciencenews.com/genetic…
Silent Switches in DNA Gave Rise to Human Intelligence - Neuroscience News

Silent Switches in DNA Gave Rise to Human Intelligence - Neuroscience News

Despite sharing over 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees, humans possess strikingly advanced cognitive and emotional abilities.

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The Oldest Human Construction Ever Discovered Is 3X Older Than Egypt’s Great Pyramid, at Least 23,000 Years Old indiandefencereview.com/the-…
The Oldest Human Construction Ever Discovered Is 3X Older Than Egypt’s Great Pyramid, at Least...

The Oldest Human Construction Ever Discovered Is 3X Older Than Egypt’s Great Pyramid, at Least...

Deep inside a Greek cave lies a stone wall built over 23,000 years ago—long before the pyramids. This ancient structure challenges everything we thought about early human creativity.

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Scientists Sequenced the DNA of the ‘Last Neanderthal’—and It Alters Human History popularmechanics.com/science…
Scientists Sequenced the DNA of the ‘Last Neanderthal’—and It Alters Human History

Scientists Sequenced the DNA of the ‘Last Neanderthal’—and It Alters Human History

Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time.

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An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens icmglt.org/an-evolutionary-t…
An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens

An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens

Scientists share the findings that helped them pinpoint key moments in the rise of our species Brian HandwerkFebruary 2, 2021 The long evolutionary journey that created modern humans began with a s…

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Archaeologists Discover an 80,000-Year-Old Sophisticated Weapon — And It Wasn’t Made by Us indiandefencereview.com/arch…
Archaeologists Discover an 80,000-Year-Old Sophisticated Weapon — And It Wasn’t Made by Us

Archaeologists Discover an 80,000-Year-Old Sophisticated Weapon — And It Wasn’t Made by Us

An ancient spear tip, buried for 80,000 years, has just turned our understanding of prehistoric technology upside down. Recent findings from a Russian cave reveal a weapon crafted by someone—or...

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115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Found in an Unexpected Location dailygalaxy.com/2025/05/1150…
115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Found in an Unexpected Location

115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Found in an Unexpected Location

Unearthed in Saudi Arabia, 115,000-year-old footprints provide stunning evidence of early human life

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Rewriting the Timeline: Neanderthal Innovation at Schöningen anthropology.net/p/rewriting…
Rewriting the Timeline: Neanderthal Innovation at Schöningen

Rewriting the Timeline: Neanderthal Innovation at Schöningen

Softer Timelines, Sharper Spears: How 200,000-year-old horse hunts are reshaping our view of Neanderthal cooperation

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Wooden spears found in a German coal mine could change the history of human hunting independent.co.uk/news/scien…
Wooden spears found in a German coal mine could change the history of human hunting

Wooden spears found in a German coal mine could change the history of human hunting

This potential shift in ownership could reshape our understanding of Neanderthal capabilities

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The Fossils That Suggest Prehistoric Cannibalism discoverwildscience.com/the-…
The Fossils That Suggest Prehistoric Cannibalism - discoverwildscience

The Fossils That Suggest Prehistoric Cannibalism - discoverwildscience

Fossilized bones with cut marks hint that some prehistoric humans may have practiced cannibalism—was it survival, ritual, or something else?

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Striking intelligence of Neanderthal stone knappers revealed phys.org/news/2025-05-intell…
Striking intelligence of Neanderthal stone knappers revealed

Striking intelligence of Neanderthal stone knappers revealed

University of Wollongong researchers have experimentally confirmed that changes in hammer strike angle significantly affect the fracture path and form of stone flakes produced by Neanderthals during...

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Scientists Discover Thousands of Giant, Living Eggs in Active Underwater Volcano indiandefencereview.com/scie…
Scientists Discover Thousands of Giant, Living Eggs in Active Underwater Volcano

Scientists Discover Thousands of Giant, Living Eggs in Active Underwater Volcano

A stunning discovery off Vancouver Island reveals an unexpected treasure deep beneath the ocean. Scientists uncover thousands of giant, living eggs in an underwater volcano.

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What If Neanderthals Still Existed Today? sciencing.com/1846299/what-i…
What If Neanderthals Still Existed Today? - Sciencing

What If Neanderthals Still Existed Today? - Sciencing

From language and arts, to warfare and identity, the world we live in would be dramatically different if Neanderthals still lived among us.

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Traces of Neanderthal presence discovered in cave, western Iran tehrantimes.com/news/512609/…
Traces of Neanderthal presence discovered in cave, western Iran

Traces of Neanderthal presence discovered in cave, western Iran

TEHRAN – Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of Neanderthal habitation in Kunakhera Cave, located in the Zagros Mountain range in western Iran’s Kermanshah province.

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Ancient human settlement discovered on Scottish island pushes known boundaries gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1174…
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