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When Did the Anthropocene Actually Begin?

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Exactly where and...

The plot thickens: new study reveals complex identity of ancient Britons

They are the oldest human fossils ever found on British soil. Excavated 30 years ago at Boxgrove, in...

Huge megalithic complex of more than 500 standing stones discovered in Spain

A huge megalithic complex of more than 500 standing stones has been discovered in southern Spain that could be...

DIY fertiliser may be behind monks’ parasite torment, say archaeologists

Medieval clergy were more likely to suffer from intestinal parasites than the poorer public despite having better sanitation, research...

After 350 years, sea gives up lost jewels of Spanish shipwreck

It was a Spanish galleon laden with treasures so sumptuous that its sinking in the Bahamas in 1656 sparked...

‘Weird, wonderful’: rare dig at Arthur’s Stone writes new story of neolithic site

High above one of western Britain’s loveliest valleys, the silence is broken by the sound of gentle digging, scraping...

Great auks and seal-headed men: a window into ice age Provence

I t was in 1985 that the diver Henri Cosquer discovered, along the coast from Marseille, what has been...

Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought

The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning...

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