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Exhibition highlights the untold story of Nazi victims in the Channel Islands
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'Selfish brain' wins out when competing with muscle power, study finds
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Pre-Inka elites and the social life of fragments
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Height and weight evolved at different speeds in the bodies of our ancestors
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Prehistoric women’s manual work was tougher than rowing in today’s elite boat...
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Ancient faeces reveal parasites described in earliest Greek medical texts
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Unusually sophisticated prehistoric monuments and technology revealed in the...
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Frozen in time: glacial archaeology on the roof of Norway
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First Peoples: two ancient ancestries ‘reconverged’ with settling of South...
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From the tools we work with to the eyeglasses and dental implants that improve us, our bodies are shaped by the things we use. We express and understand our identities through clothing, cars and...
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Exhibition highlights the untold story of Nazi victims in the Channel Islands
On British Soil: Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands, opens today at the Wiener Library for the Study of Holocaust and Genocide, London, and seeks to highlight the stories often omitted...
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'Selfish brain' wins out when competing with muscle power, study finds
Human brains are expensive – metabolically speaking. It takes lot of energy to run our sophisticated grey matter, and that comes at an evolutionary cost.Now, a new investigation into the immediate...
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Pre-Inka elites and the social life of fragments
The town of Borgatta was built in the Argentinean Andes sometime in the tenth century. It grew to a community of several hundred residential compounds before being abandoned around 1450 when the Inkan...
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Height and weight evolved at different speeds in the bodies of our ancestors
A wide-ranging new study of fossils spanning over four million years suggests that stature and body mass advanced at different speeds during the evolution of hominins – the ancestral lineage of which...
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Prehistoric women’s manual work was tougher than rowing in today’s elite boat...
A new study comparing the bones of Central European women that lived during the first 6,000 years of farming with those of modern athletes has shown that the average prehistoric agricultural woman had...
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Ancient faeces reveal parasites described in earliest Greek medical texts
Ancient faeces from prehistoric burials on the Greek island of Kea have provided the first archaeological evidence for the parasitic worms described 2,500 years ago in the writings of Hippocrates – the...
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Unusually sophisticated prehistoric monuments and technology revealed in the...
New work at the settlement of Dhaskalio, the site adjoining the prehistoric sanctuary on the Cycladic island of Keros, has shown this to be a more imposing and densely occupied series of structures...
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Frozen in time: glacial archaeology on the roof of Norway
Climate change is one of the most important issues facing people today and year on year the melting of glacial ice patches in Scandinavia, the Alps and North America reveals and then destroys vital...
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First Peoples: two ancient ancestries ‘reconverged’ with settling of South...
Recent research has suggested that the first people to enter the Americas split into two ancestral branches, the northern and southern, and that the “southern branch” gave rise to all populations in...
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