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Not all Neanderthals were ‘cavemen’: half were women. What can archaeologists tell us about how they lived?

The find supports the idea that dogs accompanied the first humans who set foot on these continents—and that both traveled there along the Pacific coast.

Gunditjmara people used the system to redirect and modify waterways to maximize aquaculture yield.

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Hunter-gatherers didn’t learn farming themselves, or from their immediate neighbors, but rather from distant people moving into their territory—a pattern that may have played out throughout this part of the globe.

To return to the firehawks example, one way to look at this is that the scientists confirmed what the Indigenous peoples have long known about the birds’ use of fire. Or we can say that the Western scientists finally caught up with TK after several thousand years.

The oldest known genome of a modern human solves long-standing puzzles about the New World's genetic heritage.

“War is very, very old. “But we can still see its beginnings, and there is no basis for concluding that a) humans have always fought because we are innately inclined to it, or b) that war could act as a selection mechanism over evolutionary time.”