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On a cool, cloudy summer day on the outskirts of the town of Chojnice in northern Poland, nine archaeologists wearing disposable latex gloves brush dirt from a three-dimensional tangle of weathered human bone at the bottom of a steep slope. Just a few shades lighter than the surrounding soil, the bones are arranged in an L shape a few feet wide and about 20 feet long in all. Talking quietly, the researchers work to free skulls, ribs, femurs, and other bones from the surrounding soil before lifti
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