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Evolution / Were Neanderthals capable of complex speech?

In The Inheritors, Willliam Golding’s second novel, Neanderthals utter only a few short words and think entirely with images. A family is disturbed...

25.04.2026 10

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Mike Pitts

Were Neanderthals capable of complex speech?

In The Inheritors, Willliam Golding’s second novel, Neanderthals utter only a few short words and think entirely with images. A family is disturbed...

25.04.2026 9

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

Scientists have confirmed the Ice Age origins of pet dogs

You don’t need to own a dog or a cat to know the two animals behave differently. One is loyal, protective, excitable and eager to please, the...

25.03.2026 20

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Mike Pitts

Exhibitions / A Ramses show that has little to do with Ramses

Ramses and the Pharaohs’ Gold is, let’s not shy away from it, a profit-seeking exhibition mounted by an entertainment business. Neon opened its...

25.03.2026 10

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

Exhibitions / A Ramses show that has little to do with Ramses

Ramses and the Pharaohs’ Gold is, let’s not shy away from it, a profit-seeking exhibition mounted by an entertainment business. Neon opened its...

25.03.2026 10

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

Why a set of gold coins have divided British archeologists

In 2024 a detectorist found some gold coins in Suffolk. The discovery was declared legally treasure. If a museum wanted the coins, the finder would...

21.02.2026 100

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Mike Pitts

Why the Norfolk carnyx matters

09.01.2026 30

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Mike Pitts

Why did scientists think the Beachy Head Lady was African?

18.12.2025 10

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Mike Pitts

Were the Romans good for Britain?

12.12.2025 10

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Mike Pitts

Sapiens / Has the history of human evolution been rewritten?

29.09.2025 10

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Mike Pitts

Was Easter Island less isolated than we previously thought?

07.07.2025 10

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Mike Pitts

We finally know what an ancient species of human looked like

20.06.2025 9

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Mike Pitts

The remarkable quest to identify Captain Cook’s Endeavour

17.06.2025 10

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Mike Pitts

The impossible politics of ‘ancestral remains’

14.06.2025 10

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Mike Pitts

How Cornwall led Europe into the Bronze Age

07.05.2025 9

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Mike Pitts

The significance of the Melsonby hoard

30.03.2025 10

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Mike Pitts

Why is Australia reburying ancient human remains?

25.03.2025 20

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Mike Pitts

Were the builders of Stonehenge black?

04.03.2025 10

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Mike Pitts