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Cover Stories
New perspectives in human behavior and culture
A Newly Discovered Indonesian Cave Painting May Be the World’s Oldest Known Figurative Artwork
First modern human stone tool culture lasted 20,000 years longer than thought
Sharing leftover meat may have contributed to early dog domestication
Oldest hominins of Olduvai Gorge persisted across changing environments
Genetic Analyses Reveal the Spread of Early Northeast Asian Human Populations – and Plague-Causing Bacteria
Evidence for a massive paleo-tsunami at ancient Tel Dor, Israel
Ancient DNA retells story of Caribbean’s first people
Ancient DNA sheds light on the peopling of the Mariana Islands
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