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The Past

New theory emerges on how early humans learned to control fire

Researchers propose that knowledge of fire was transmitted across vast regions within a short period of time due to cultural diffusion.

Above This drawing depicts the Forbes’ Quarry skull (also known as Gibraltar 1), the first adult Neanderthal remains ever discovered. The skull was found in Gibraltar in 1848 eight years before the type specimen that gave Neanderthals their name was discovered in the Neander Valley, Germany and came from a woman aged at least 40. Today, it is held by the Natural History Museum in London.

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Neanderthal neighbours: tracing evidence for our closest hominin relatives in Britain

Neanderthals have long been stereotyped as our less-capable cousins, but advances in archaeological research have given fascinating new insights into the lives of our closest hominin relatives and the world they inhabited, as Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes explains.