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Cover Stories
Cracking the code of the Dead Sea Scrolls
People have shaped Earth’s ecology for at least 12,000 years, mostly sustainably
Nuclear DNA from sediments helps unlock ancient human history
New evidence suggests sexual division of labor as farming arose in Europe
Genetic admixture in the South Pacific: from Denisovans to the human immune response
Dating Stone Age middens using ostrich eggshells
Study: Scant evidence that ‘wood overuse’ at Cahokia caused collapse
Early Humans Evolved Modern Human-Like Brain Organization After First African Dispersal
Neanderthal ancestry identifies oldest modern human genome
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