Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America.

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New research shows many ancient societies shared power and limited rulers, revealing that democracy existed far beyond Greece and Rome.

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Denisovans were a type of ancient human that for a long time were known only from their DNA and teeth. But recent fossil findings and analysis is now revealing what these people looked like and that ...