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Spatula to poison darts, Malaysia

Poisons, plants and Palaeolithic hunters

21 Mar 2015

Dozens of common plants are toxic. Archaeologists have long suspected that our Palaeolithic ancestors used plant poisons to make their hunting...

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Example of one of the stone tools found recently at Willendorf

They weren’t wimps: how modern humans, like Neanderthals, braved the northern cold

23 Sep 2014

Recent finds at Willendorf in Austria reveal that modern humans were living in cool steppe-like conditions some 43,500 years ago – and that their...

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