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Cover Stories
Revised ages of South African Australopithecus fossils
Indigenous communities used the Caribbean Sea as an aquatic highway
Tenochtitlán’s lessons for the future of megacities
Olive trees were first domesticated 7,000 years ago
HS2 archaeological discoveries illuminate the Anglo-Saxon ‘Dark Ages’
Origins of the Black Death identified
Nonvisual fire signatures at early hominin site
Prehistoric “Swiss Army knife” indicates early humans communicated
Famous rock art cave in Spain was used by ancient humans for over 50,000 years
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