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Native American historian Ned Blackhawk joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultures and ...

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After the collapse of the Chalcolithic culture around 3500 BCE, people in Jordan’s Murayghat transformed their way of life, shifting from domestic settlements to ritual landscapes filled with dolmens, ...

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