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Archaeology

Chinese Goose

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Geese may have been the first birds to be domesticated 7000 years ago

Goose bones from Stone Age China suggest the birds were being domesticated there 7000 years ago, which could mean they were domesticated before chickens

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Moais of Ahu Tongariki

Environment

Easter Islanders relied on freshwater springs under the sea to survive

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Sabratha in Libya

Environment

Over 190 African heritage sites threatened by rising seas this century

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View of the excavations at the entrance of Grotte Mandrin

Humans

Modern humans moved into cave one year after Neanderthals abandoned it

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Equid burial

Life

Hybrid animal in 4500-year-old tomb is earliest known bred by humans

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Anadenanthera colubrina is the one tree species common to nearly all regions of South American seasonally dry tropical forests and woodlands (SDTFs). Its abundant fruits each of which is laterally flat and which bear many lenticular seeds, trunk and main stems with a tuberculate cortex, and extra floral nectaries positioned near the base of the leaf rachis distinguish this species.

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Ancient Andean leaders may have mixed hallucinogen with their beer

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The god Anubis and a mummy

Humans

Ancient Egyptian mummy of a young girl is first with a bandaged wound

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Facemask of the never-before unwrapped mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I

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The mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I has been digitally unwrapped

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HT3KM2 Danebury Hill Fort, c2nd century BC, (c1990-2010). Artist: Karen Guffogg. Reconstruction drawing. Celtic / Iron age, approx. 2nd century BC. Built in the 6th century BC, the fort was in use for almost 500 years, during a period when the number of hill forts in Wessex greatly increased. Danebury was remodelled several times, making it more complex and resulting in it becoming a developed hill fort

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Bronze Age migration may have brought Celtic languages to Britain

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Faroe Islands. Northern Atlantic 2017 Ei?i, Eysturoy, Faeroe Islands

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People occupied the Faroe Islands 300 years earlier than we thought

The Faroe Islands sit between Iceland, Norway and Great Britain, and were thought to have been first populated by the Vikings around AD 800, but new evidence suggests it may have been Britons in AD 500

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Ancient Egyptian elites used a thick beer porridge in their ceremonies

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Humans

Fossil footprints hint at mystery hominin with unusual walking style

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Life

Stones smashed by horses can be mistaken for ancient human tools

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Humans

Mammoth ivory pendant is oldest decorated jewellery found in Eurasia

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