We are working to discover which groups of became ancestors of today's people, and where the networks of these ancient people interconnected. Revealing those links to our deep shared past helps forge new connections today. That's my kind of

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Recent archaeological work has uncovered the aesthetic cultures of who sometimes decorated themselves with colors, shells, talons, and feathers, marked and engraved cave walls, and had an ear for language.

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Around 120,000 years ago, during extraordinary period of warm global temperatures known as the Eemian, a community of left the remains of more than 30 individuals in a rock shelter near Krapina, Croatia. They hunted woolly rhinoceros.

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were amazing people who lived more than 40,000 years ago. They survived three ice ages and ended up as ancestors of all of us. The first one uncovered was from Schmerling Caves, Belgium, in 1829, but it wasn't recognized for 100 years.

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