'Intellectually inferior' humans caused Neanderthals to go extinct, a new book claims

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An artistic interpretation of how a Neanderthal man would have looked, with long hair and a beard
An exhibit of a Neanderthal man at the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia.

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Neanderthals and humans may belong to the same species, say scientists. It could rewrite the history of our evolution.

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An employee of the Natural History Museum in London looks at model of a Neanderthal male.

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Archaeologists used Google Earth to help find 3,000 square miles of prehistoric settlements from a new-found civilization in Central Europe

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Farmland seen from above with faint whitish circles representing the Tisza Site Group settlements
Google Earth images helped researchers spot the Tisza Site Group settlements.

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20,000-year-old footprints show humans have been in the Americas longer than previously thought, scientists say

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Human footprints in brownish-white ground at White Sands National Park, New Mexico
Footprints found in White Sands National Park may show that humans were in what is now New Mexico over 20,000 years ago.

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18,000-year-old stone tools are among the oldest found in the US, more evidence that humans lived in the Americas during the Ice Age

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A number of stone tools from the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter archeological site in Oregon, including tools that over 18,000 years old
Several stone tools found at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Oregon, including the large orange chalcedony tool found below ash from Mt. Saint Helens.

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5,000-year-old cauldrons of the Bronze Age are so well preserved they offer archeologists the 'first evidence' of an ancient feast consisting of milk and meat

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A 5,000-year-old Bronze Age cauldron that's very oxidized and a artist rendering if what it looked like when used by the Maykop people
One of the 5,000-year-old pots where reseaerchers found animal proteins (left). An artist reconstructed what the cauldron would look like toady (right).

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