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Opinion: An 8,000-year-old lesson

There is humanity in the evidence that a Stone Age child was interred wrapped in a cloak and with a dog.
An artistic illustration of what the child could have looked like when alive and sleeping

There is urgent news all over the world, but this week I've also thought of a child who lived 8,000 years ago.

The small teeth of the child, who may have been as old as 10, or as young as 3, have been excavated

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