A new study suggests Neanderthals may have lived in woodlands rather than tundras, meaning they were most likely sprinters.
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Rainforests may have played far more of a role in shaping human evolution than previously thought.
A lesser known aspect of bogs is their remarkable potential to preserve both environmental and archaeological records.
Tales of giants can be found around the world - in Wales, in Australia, and the Pacific Islands. They helped people explain the sometimes cataclysmic changes to the environment they saw around them.
On the golden jubilee of the discovery of Mungo Lady’s 40,000-year-old remains, we can reflect on Aboriginal Australia’s vast history, which predates the arrival of Homo sapiens in both Europe and America.
New research uses pathology in dinosaur bones to look at predator-prey interactions in the fossil record.
Prehistoric humans and their predecessors may have had a very different diet but their teeth suffered in similar ways to ours.
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Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Bournemouth University
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Mathematics Lecturer and Ancient DNA Researcher, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Associate Professor in Hominin Palaeoecology, Bournemouth University
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PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Independent Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Associate Professor of Osteoarchaeology, Uppsala University
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ARC Laureate Fellow, Monash University, Director of Global Encounters Program., Monash University
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Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
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Professor of Archaeology, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Environmental Archaeology, University College Cork
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Post-doc fellow: Institute for modelling socio-environmental transitions, Bournemouth University
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