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Archaeology

Grave

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500-year-old remains may be first African woman to reach the Americas

A skeleton buried at the first European town in the Americas belonged to a young woman from western Africa. She may be the earliest known person from Africa to make the journey

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burial

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Ancient teenager buried with head poking out of strange Spanish grave

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cremated bones

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Stone Age people were cremating their dead about 9000 years ago

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poison arrows

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First poison arrows may have been loosed 70,000 years ago in Africa

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skeleton

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Skeletons reveal wealth gap in Europe began to open 6600 years ago

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Stone box

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Beautiful shell carving was part of Incan offering to Lake Titicaca

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stonehenge

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We鈥檝e finally figured out where Stonehenge鈥檚 giant boulders came from

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Humans reached the Americas 15,000 years earlier than thought

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Ancient mammoth tusk found in Siberia is engraved with fighting camels

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Flint art

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Mysterious Stone Age flint artefacts may be crude sculptures of humans

Hundreds of distinctive flint objects from a Stone Age village in Jordan seem to have been a form of symbolic communication 鈥� perhaps even figurines of people

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Blackbeard crashed his pirate ship on purpose because it leaked

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Stone Age ruling elite in Ireland may have had incestuous marriages

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An artist carved this tiny bird sculpture 13,000 years ago in China

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Forerunner to the Great Wall of China mapped in detail for first time

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