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Human DNA preserved on the very walls of decorated caves
Author : Mariano · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Es-Skhul: the oldest sapiens–Neanderthal hybrid?
Author : Rama · CC BY-SA 3.0 fr · Wikimedia Commons ↗

White Sands: 23,000-year-old footprints in the Americas
Author : Ben Soyka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Karahan Tepe: a T-pillar carved with a human face
Author : Mahmut Bozarslan (VOA) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Neanderthals, the cousin we carry within us
Author : Ryan Schwark · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Neolithic Revolution: when humans settled down
Author : Murat Özsoy 1958 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The dawn of art: Chauvet, Lascaux, Cosquer
Author : EU · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Göbekli Tepe: the temple before the city
Author : Teomancimit · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Palaeolithic Venuses, riddles in ivory
Author : User:MatthiasKabel · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Bannière d'accueil (Chauvet)
Author : HTO · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Denisovans: a humanity revealed by its DNA
Author : Wikimedia Commons · voir Commons · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Ötzi the Iceman: a 5,300-year-old cold case
Author : Wikimedia Commons · voir Commons · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Stonehenge: the stone enigma that still travels
Author : Wikimedia Commons · voir Commons · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Doggerland, the land drowned beneath the North Sea
Author : Wikimedia Commons · voir Commons · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Sahul: the great crossing to Australia, 65,000 years ago
Author : Wikimedia Commons · voir Commons · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Homo naledi: what if every skeleton in the cave is female?
Author : Lee Roger Berger research team · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Judean jars that keep the memory of Earth's magnetic field
Author : Funhistory at English Wikipedia · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Benjamina, the Atapuerca child cared for 400,000 years ago
Author : José Luis Filpo Cabana · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Neanderthal extinction was also written in their blood
Author : Luna04 · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

A 5,000-year-old necropolis lights up the birth of the pyramids
Author : Olaf Tausch · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

La Mouthe, the cave where parietal art was finally recognised
Author : Thilo Parg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Neanderthals digested insects, an ability we have lost
Author : Ryan Schwark · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The high Pyrenees, inhabited for 10,000 years
Author : No machine-readable author provided. David.gaya assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Beneath Greater Paris's cranes, a 10,000-year-old hunter-gatherer camp
Author : Winchester Museum Service, Lucy Shipley, 2007-10-01 13:22:54 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Arcy-sur-Cure, the painted cave we nearly erased
Author : Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Scotland: human bones turned into tools in an Iron Age tomb
Author : Claire Pegrum · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

"The March of Progress": why this image of evolution is wrong
Author : Christopher Walsh, Harvard Medical School · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The first burials: when humanity began to bury its dead
Author : Hanay · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Out of Africa: how Homo sapiens conquered the planet
Author : NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems & U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team · Domaine public · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Aurignacian: the eruption of art and music in Europe
Author : Dagmar Hollmann · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Neolithic in Europe: from first farmers to megaliths
Author : IndigoBeluga · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The invention of writing: the end of prehistory
Author : Original: Daderot, derivative work Zunkir · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The protohistory of Europe: Celts, oppida and the dawn of history
Author : WikiRigaou · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Toba supereruption and the human bottleneck
Author : Bisajunisa · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Lucy: the skeleton that redrew the human family tree
Author : Sailko · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

A 5,000-year-old fortress emerges from a Romanian forest, revealed by LiDAR
Author : CristianChirita · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Pazyryk: the frozen tattoos of the Altai horsemen
Author : Alexandr frolov · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Sintashta and Arkaim: chariots, fortresses and steppe warriors
Author : ZolanPro · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Cucuteni-Trypillia: were the megasites Europe's first cities?
Author : Helgie12 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Maikop: gold, kurgans and the Bronze Age Caucasus
Author : Сергей 6662 · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Mehrgarh: the village that came before Harappa and Mohenjo-daro
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Bhimbetka: the painted shelters of prehistoric India
Author : Hansallumia verma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Dholavira: how an Indus city survived in the desert
Author : Bhuppigraphy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

South Africa: the world's oldest Homo sapiens footprints
Author : United States Geological Survey · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Green Sahara: DNA from two mummies reveals a forgotten North African lineage
Author : Luca Galuzzi (Lucag) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

A 'ghost' human lineage redraws the story of our origins
Author : National Human Genome Research Institute · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Linear Elamite: a 4,000-year-old script finally deciphered
Author : S.Javad Mirhosseini · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Biache-Saint-Vaast: the oldest Neanderthal of northern France
Author : Werner Ustorf · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Cerro de las Cabezas: two violent deaths and six deer antlers, the enigma of an Iberian 'bad death'
Author : Contexto ambiental · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Cerro de las Cabezas: two violent deaths and six deer antlers, the enigma of an Iberian 'bad death'
Author : Kritzolina · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Cerro de las Cabezas: two violent deaths and six deer antlers, the enigma of an Iberian 'bad death'
Author : Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Cerro de las Cabezas: two violent deaths and six deer antlers, the enigma of an Iberian 'bad death'
Author : Grupo B2-2 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Cerro de las Cabezas: two violent deaths and six deer antlers, the enigma of an Iberian 'bad death'
Author : Ángel M. Felicísimo from Mérida, España · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Wadi Mathendous: giraffes carved in sandstone, the rock art of a forgotten Sahara
Author : Luca Galuzzi (Lucag) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Wadi Mathendous: giraffes carved in sandstone, the rock art of a forgotten Sahara
Author : ruba_ch/Rudolf Baumann · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Wadi Mathendous: giraffes carved in sandstone, the rock art of a forgotten Sahara
Author : Franzfoto · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Jabal al-Tayr: a 5,000-year-old necropolis at the roots of pyramid architecture
Author : ALFGRN · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Jabal al-Tayr: a 5,000-year-old necropolis at the roots of pyramid architecture
Author : Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Jabal al-Tayr: a 5,000-year-old necropolis at the roots of pyramid architecture
Author : Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Jabal al-Tayr: a 5,000-year-old necropolis at the roots of pyramid architecture
Author : Dr. Ondřej Havelka (cestovatel) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Jabal al-Tayr: a 5,000-year-old necropolis at the roots of pyramid architecture
Author : E M · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Ugarit Divorce: when repudiating a princess became a matter of state
Author : https://www.flickr.com/photos/travellingrunes/ · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Ugarit Divorce: when repudiating a princess became a matter of state
Author : Rama · CC BY-SA 3.0 fr · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Ugarit Divorce: when repudiating a princess became a matter of state
Author : Loris RomitoThe original uploader was LorisRomito at Italian Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Ugarit Divorce: when repudiating a princess became a matter of state
Author : Dosseman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Ugarit Divorce: when repudiating a princess became a matter of state
Author : Alen Ištoković · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Gravettian: Venus figurines, mammoths and societies of the cold
Author : Momotarou2012 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Gravettian: Venus figurines, mammoths and societies of the cold
Author : Cangadoba · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Gravettian: Venus figurines, mammoths and societies of the cold
Author : Zde · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Gravettian: Venus figurines, mammoths and societies of the cold
Author : User:MatthiasKabel · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Gravettian: Venus figurines, mammoths and societies of the cold
Author : che (Please credit as "Petr Novák, Wikipedia" in case you use this outside Wikim · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Gravettian: Venus figurines, mammoths and societies of the cold
Author : Vassil · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Gravettian: Venus figurines, mammoths and societies of the cold
Author : Mauricio Antón · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Indus Civilization: a 5,000-year-old enigma
Author : Gary Todd · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Indus Civilization: a 5,000-year-old enigma
Author : Royroydeb · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Indus Civilization: a 5,000-year-old enigma
Author : Saqib Qayyum · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Indus Civilization: a 5,000-year-old enigma
Author : Ganesh Mohan T · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Indus Civilization: a 5,000-year-old enigma
Author : Prof Ranga Sai · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Indus Civilization: a 5,000-year-old enigma
Author : Obed Suhail · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The peopling of the Americas: Beringia, White Sands and the end of the Clovis model
Author : Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The peopling of the Americas: Beringia, White Sands and the end of the Clovis model
Author : Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The peopling of the Americas: Beringia, White Sands and the end of the Clovis model
Author : Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The peopling of the Americas: Beringia, White Sands and the end of the Clovis model
Author : Crissi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The peopling of the Americas: Beringia, White Sands and the end of the Clovis model
Author : US Geological Service · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The peopling of the Americas: Beringia, White Sands and the end of the Clovis model
Author : Geología Valdivia · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The peopling of the Americas: Beringia, White Sands and the end of the Clovis model
Author : United States Geological Survey · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Magdalenian: Lascaux, harpoons and the return of the hunters
Author : Silar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Magdalenian: Lascaux, harpoons and the return of the hunters
Author : Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Magdalenian: Lascaux, harpoons and the return of the hunters
Author : HTO · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Magdalenian: Lascaux, harpoons and the return of the hunters
Author : JoJan · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Magdalenian: Lascaux, harpoons and the return of the hunters
Author : Henri Breuil; Louis Capitan · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

The Magdalenian: Lascaux, harpoons and the return of the hunters
Author : José-Manuel Benito · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Syria's forgotten secret: at the roots of civilization
Author : Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Syria's forgotten secret: at the roots of civilization
Author : Herbert Frank from Wien (Vienna), AT · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Syria's forgotten secret: at the roots of civilization
Author : Heretiq · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Syria's forgotten secret: at the roots of civilization
Author : Merikanto · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Syria's forgotten secret: at the roots of civilization
Author : Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Syria's forgotten secret: at the roots of civilization
Author : Jerzy Strzelecki · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Syria's forgotten secret: at the roots of civilization
Author : Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Akhenaten: history's first religious revolution
Author : myself (Gerbil from de.wikipedia) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Akhenaten: history's first religious revolution
Author : Joan lalucat i Adrià Turina · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Akhenaten: history's first religious revolution
Author : Miguel Hermoso Cuesta · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Akhenaten: history's first religious revolution
Author : Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Akhenaten: history's first religious revolution
Author : Philip Pikart · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Akhenaten: history's first religious revolution
Author : Jean-Pierre Dalbéra · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Akhenaten: history's first religious revolution
Author : ArchaiOptix · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Norway: a cave yields Europe's oldest Arctic ecosystem, 75,000 years frozen in stone
Author : Stephan Sprinz · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Norway: a cave yields Europe's oldest Arctic ecosystem, 75,000 years frozen in stone
Author : Paul Berzinn · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Norway: a cave yields Europe's oldest Arctic ecosystem, 75,000 years frozen in stone
Author : Garst, Warren, 1922-2016, photographer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Norway: a cave yields Europe's oldest Arctic ecosystem, 75,000 years frozen in stone
Author : Helge Høifødt · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Norway: a cave yields Europe's oldest Arctic ecosystem, 75,000 years frozen in stone
Author : David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Norway: a cave yields Europe's oldest Arctic ecosystem, 75,000 years frozen in stone
Author : Andreas Weith · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Norway: a cave yields Europe's oldest Arctic ecosystem, 75,000 years frozen in stone
Author : AWeith · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗