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Cover Stories
University of Houston archaeologists discover tomb of first king of Caracol
Gantangqing site in southwest China yields 300,000-year-old wooden tools
Researchers sequence first genome from ancient Egypt
US press coverage of archaeology has geographic disparities, favoring Western discoveries
Neanderthals had a “fat factory” for processing bone grease 125,000 years ago – much earlier than thought
When ideas travel further than people
Ancient canoe replica tests Paleolithic migration theory
“Boomerang” made from mammoth tusk is likely one of the oldest known in Europe at around 40,000 years old, per analysis of this artifact from a Polish Upper Paleolithic cave
Ancient temple ruins discovered in Andes shed light on lost society
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