Since 2011, professional and amateur archaeologists in Cardiff have been unearthing prehistoric artefacts. But last summer, they began to discover something even more extraordinary.
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Around 200,000 years ago, people were living who were as intelligent as us.
The stone age saw a pattern where technologies like spears, fire and bows were invented once, then spread
Combining evidence from archaeology, geochronology and paleoenvironmental science, researchers identified how ancient humans by Lake Malawi were the first to substantially modify their environment.
Burials seem to have been uncommon in Africa some 80,000 years ago, although they were widespread in Eurasia.
A remarkable set of discoveries has confirmed that parts of Stonehenge first stood 140 miles away at Waun Mawn, west Wales.
The Boxgrove people, like all other human species, were capable of sharing time, care and knowledge in all parts of their life.
Archaeologists reveal two-kilometre ring of pits around the neolithic Durrington Walls by studying old geophysical surveys.
Ancient farmers ensured their children were fed and entertained in a similar way to modern parents.
Stone working is one of the most successful technologies used by humans, from 3.3 million years ago to the present day. So don’t think its “primitive”.
Scientists have discovered sophisticated tools in Kenya that are much older than expected.
Scandinavia was populated by two main migrations, making its first inhabitants more genetically diverse and adapted to harsh climates than those in the rest of Europe.
Archaeology is not only about stones and bones: it is mainly about the people of the past. DNA is one way to get from the stones and the bones to the people and their stories.
These massacres entail killing on a relative scale seen today only in the most war-torn countries.
New discovery is evidence of trade with continental Europe.
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Anniversary Chair in Landscape Archaeology, University of Bradford
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Professor of Archaeological Science, University of Bradford
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Principal Research Associate, UCL
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Associate Professor, Life Sciences, University of Warwick
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Lecturer in Scientific and Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Forensic Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
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Professor of Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, UCL
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Professor of Archaeological Theory and Method, University of Liverpool
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Professor of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo
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Professor with Research Focus in Stone Age Archaeology, Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Lecturer of Archaeology, Lund University
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