Tales of giants can be found around the world - in Wales, in Australia, and the Pacific Islands. They helped people explain the sometimes cataclysmic changes to the environment they saw around them.
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On the golden jubilee of the discovery of Mungo Lady’s 40,000-year-old remains, we can reflect on Aboriginal Australia’s vast history, which predates the arrival of Homo sapiens in both Europe and America.
New research uses pathology in dinosaur bones to look at predator-prey interactions in the fossil record.
Prehistoric humans and their predecessors may have had a very different diet but their teeth suffered in similar ways to ours.
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Stephen Shennan is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of Theoretical Archaeology, UCL
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Associate Professor in Hominin Palaeoecology, Bournemouth University
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