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Cover Stories
The emergence of humans coincides with an extinction rate surge for proboscideans, the group that includes wooly mammoths
Cook like a Neanderthal: Scientists try to replicate ancient butchering methods to learn how Neanderthals ate birds
Hunter-gatherers kept an ‘orderly home’ in the earliest known British dwelling, study shows
Discoveries in the Shadow of the Step Pyramid
Yin, The Lost City of Kings
Pompeii skeleton discovery shows another natural disaster may have made Vesuvius eruption even more deadly
The AlUla Approach to Archaeology
Evidence for butchery of giant armadillo-like mammals in Argentina 21,000 years ago
Traveling Upright: Humanity’s First Global Ancestor
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