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It's hard to imagine that just 40,000 years ago, there was another species of humans on Earth. Modern humans and Neanderthals lived amongst each other, they interbred, lived in the same caves, hunted ...

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Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, they uncovered a living legacy inside most people alive today. A small but ...

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Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

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The Trump administration's strategic assessment says Europe is in dire trouble and faces “civilizational erasure.” ...

The Benin Bronzes, taken from what is now Nigeria, have become a symbol in the effort to return looted artifacts to their ...

Four decades after bands like the Replacements, the Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, and the Meat Puppets got this scene rolling, indie ...