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Cover Stories
DNA from extinct hominin may have helped ancient peoples survive in the Americas
Remains at two Neolithic sites reveal that locals brutalized foreign prisoners of war
Earliest evidence discovered of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals
A critical step in prehistoric stone tool use may have taken place 600,000 years earlier than thought
Extreme droughts did not always coincide with Mayan abandonment of sites, such as Chichén Itzá
From Shovel to Scaffold: How Archaeology Shapes NYC’s Renovation Rules
Population history of the Southern Caucasus
Archaeologists find oldest evidence of humans on ‘Hobbit’s’ island neighbor – who they were remains a mystery
Research and experimentation suggest a new theory on how the ancients moved the massive stones for Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids
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