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Early Europeans shared a currency made from odd chunks of bronze
A single pan-European currency based on chunks of bronze was in use more than 2800 years ago, before the advent of coins or powerful nation states
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The alphabet may have been invented 500 years earlier than we thought
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Exploring ‘Aquaterra’, the drowned continent walked by our ancestors
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Bronze Age dogs ate little meat and had to feed on cereals instead
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Ancient Britons extracted salt from seawater more than 5500 years ago
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People living in the Atacama desert once traded exotic parrots
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Bronze Age miners had cooked meals delivered to their workplace
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The World Before Us review: A gripping account of Earth’s other humans
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Mass graves in France belonged to opposing soldiers in medieval war
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Indian stone tool may be earliest evidence of humans outside Africa
What looks like a stone tool has been pulled from sediments in India that have been dated to 2.6 million years ago, suggesting an early exit from Africa 鈥� if the evidence stands up
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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation
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Earliest American dog hints pets accompanied first people in Americas
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How archaeologists are using futuristic tech to uncover ancient cities
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Stonehenge was built with bits of an older Welsh Stone Age monument
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