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Recounting the repatriation of aboriginal remains from Lake Mungo

Reacting to a feature article from Smithsonian magazine that followed the reburial of a 42,000-year-old human skeleton.

Landscape in Mungo National Park, New South Wales, Australia
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Artifacts of a pre-Clovis tradition from the Gault site, Texas

A 2018 paper by Thomas Williams and coworkers documents a Native American group that existed as early as 16,000 years ago.

Tent covering Area 15 excavation of Gault site, Texas
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Lida Ajer, early modern human remains in island Southeast Asia

A site first investigated by Eugene Dubois is rediscovered by Kira Westaway and collaborators.

A cave entrance with two people, one with headlight
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Did humans approach the southern tip of South America more than 18,000 years ago?

An article by Tom Dillehay and coworkers describes the archaeology of Monte Verde I, preserving artifacts together with burned features.

Basalt artifact from Monte Verde, Chile
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Secrets of the genome from Ust'-Ishim

A discovery from Siberia represents one of the earliest branches of modern humans to disperse into Eurasia.

Secrets of the genome from Ust'-Ishim