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After over 30 years of excavations deep within Sri Lanka's Beli-Lena and nearby caves, archaeologists uncovered puzzling traces left by Homo sapiens 48,000 years ago. Join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she deciphers butchered monkey bones and chipped bone arrowheads, clues to a lost technology that helped our ancestors survive in one of the most extreme environments on the planet.

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