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Bone fragment reveals humans wore leather clothes 39,000 years ago

A study of an ancient bone from Spain with a strange pattern of notches hints that it was used by early Homo sapiens in Europe as a punch board for making holes in leather

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Cave paintings of mutilated hands could be a Stone Age sign language

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MARSEILLE, FRANCE - APRIL 20:Views of the cave paintings Cosquer cave in Marseille before the official opening the 4 june on April 20, 2022 in Marseille, France. As the replica cave officially opens its doors to visitors on June 4,2022,a team of archaeologists and divers are racing to save the ancient underwater cave paintings from climate change and marine pollution in south-east France. (Photo by Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images)

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UK’s earliest hand axes were made by ancient humans 560,000 years ago

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A selection of flint artefacts excavated at the site
Photograph showing ambient light levels and the position of replica plaquettes in relation to the fire during experiment E.

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Stone Age Europeans may have gathered to watch animations by the fire

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Stones smashed by horses can be mistaken for ancient human tools

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Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing human history

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Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing human history

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Ancient Britons extracted salt from seawater more than 5500 years ago

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Australia's oldest known rock art is a 17,000-year-old kangaroo

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Stone Age Europeans used human bones to make arrowheads

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Stone Age Europeans used human bones to make arrowheads

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‘Bonehenge’: Stone Age structure of mammoth bones discovered in Russia

People living in Russia about 20,000 years ago built a "bonehenge" – a circular structure made of mammoth bones that could have been used to store food

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‘Bonehenge’: Stone Age structure of mammoth bones discovered in Russia

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The epic ocean journey that took Stone Age people to Australia

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Hear what music would have sounded like at Stonehenge 4000 years ago

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Tool-use became widespread 10,000 years earlier than we thought

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Stone Age Europe may have been home to no more than 1500 people

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