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Archaeology: The lost world

Armed with a map depicting a 10,000-year-old landscape submerged beneath the North Sea and fresh evidence from nearby sites, archaeologists are realizing that early humans were more territorial than was previously thought. Laura Spinney reports.

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Laura Spinney is a freelance writer in London and Paris.

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Spinney, L. Archaeology: The lost world. Nature 454, 151–153 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/454151a

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