Communities in the north-west Maghreb were able to coordinate large construction projects thousands of years ago.
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The team’s work at Oued Beht unearthed the most extensive and earliest agricultural complex known in north Africa outside the Nile Valley.
During the Paleozoic Era, giant sea scorpions would have been the equivalent of a great white shark in their food web.
Prehistoric humans and their predecessors may have had a very different diet but their teeth suffered in similar ways to ours.
CT scanning allows scientists to observe and “dissect” fossils digitally using computer software - and to uncover secrets that are hundreds of millions of years old.
Notions of gods arise in all human societies, from all powerful and all-knowing deities to simple forest spirits. A recent method of examining religious thought and behaviour links their ubiquity and the…
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