Rare 2,100-year-old gold coin bears name of obscure ruler from pre-Roman Britain (www.livescience.com)
I spy with my Cold War satellite eye... nearly 400 Roman forts in the Middle East (arstechnica.com)
Anthropologists suggest forts were built to secure key trade routes through the region.
The World's Oldest Settlements Were Built by a Culture Nobody Expected (www.sciencealert.com)
People buried at 'mega' stone tombs in Spain were defleshed and their bones fractured after death (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in Spain have discovered evidence that ancient people defleshed and dismembered corpses around 6,000 years ago. But these aren’t clues to an ancient murder: Instead, the bone injuries are more likely related to funerary practices that occurred just after death....
Dress code: How a Winnipeg codebreaker cracked one of the 'world's top unsolved messages' | CBC (www.cbc.ca)
Archaeologists in France Have Discovered a 2nd-Century Roman Sarcophagus, Still Fastened Close With Lead Staples | Artnet News (news.artnet.com)
Archeologists in Reims, northeastern France, have found an unopened Roman sarcophagus with the remains of a woman and her funerary goods.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATE A LAMASSU AT ANCIENT KHURSBAD (www.heritagedaily.com)
Ancient Egyptian cemetery holds rare 'Book of the Dead' papyrus and mummies (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 3,500-year-old cemetery that contains a “Book of the Dead” papyrus....
Workers Unearth 19th-Century Shipwreck Beneath a Road in Florida (www.smithsonianmag.com)
'No scientific evidence' that ancient human relative buried dead and carved art as portrayed in Netflix documentary, researchers argue (www.livescience.com)
There’s “no convincing scientific evidence” behind the extraordinary claims that the ancient human relative Homo naledi deliberately buried their dead and engraved rocks deep in a South African cave around 300,000 years ago, a group of archaeologists argues in a new commentary....
Paleolithic humans may have understood the properties of rocks for making stone tools (phys.org)
A research group led by the Nagoya University Museum and Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Japan has clarified differences in the physical characteristics of rocks used by early humans during the Paleolithic. They found that humans selected rock for a variety of reasons and not just because of how easy it was to break...
New Zealand returns ancient artefacts to Egypt (egyptian-gazette.com)
Neanderthals lived in groups big enough to eat giant elephants (www.science.org)
Humanity’s oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it? (www.nature.com)
3,500-year-old axes potentially used for 'cult practice' discovered in Polish forest (www.livescience.com)
A metal detectorist in Poland has found five Bronze Age axes buried in a forest. Archaeologists suggest that the artifacts may have been used to either chop wood or for cult purposes....
Earliest 'true' saddle in east Asia discovered (phys.org)
Their Civilization—Whose Archaeology? (www.jhiblog.org)
The centrality of archaeology in articulating and espousing the politics of nation states as also erstwhile empires is today undeniable. The history of archaeological research and practice is replete with cases where material culture has been used to produce origin myths, shared imaginaries of communities simultaneous with...
Karahan Tepe: The Mysteries of The Oldest Known Settlement (youtu.be)
Roman 'backwater' bucked Empire's decline, archaeologists reveal (phys.org)
Early medieval Welsh cemetery found containing crouching bodies (www.theguardian.com)
A Shipwreck in Rhode Island Appears to Actually Be Captain Cook's Long-Lost Ship (www.popularmechanics.com)
The Met to return looted ancient artworks to Thailand and Cambodia (www.bbc.com)
The giant ancient underground city now a ghost town where 20,000 people lived (www.express.co.uk)
New England stone walls deserve a science of their own (phys.org)
The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere—a latticework of dry, lichen-crusted stone ridges separating a patchwork of otherwise moist soils....