Archaeologists Discover Remains of 5,000-Year-Old Wine in Ancient Egyptian Tomb (www.sciencealert.com)
Research finds dramatic increase in cranial traumas as the first cities were being built, suggesting a rise in violence (phys.org)
The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants. Laws, centralized administration, trade and culture then caused the ratio of violent deaths to fall back again in the Early and Middle Bronze Age (3,300 to 1,500 BCE). This is the conclusion of...
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.
Hunter-gatherers were mostly gatherers, says archaeologist (www.theguardian.com)
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....
Egypt pyramid renovation sparks debate (phys.org)
Hidden Chambers Found in Crumbling Pyramid 200 Years After Prediction (www.sciencealert.com)
Workers Unearth 19th-Century Shipwreck Beneath a Road in Florida (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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)
Dress code: How a Winnipeg codebreaker cracked one of the 'world's top unsolved messages' | CBC (www.cbc.ca)
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)
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....
ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATE A LAMASSU AT ANCIENT KHURSBAD (www.heritagedaily.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....
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.
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...
A Massive Tsunami Could Have Wiped Out Populations in Stone Age Britain (www.sciencealert.com)
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Early medieval Welsh cemetery found containing crouching bodies (www.theguardian.com)
Dark-Age Skeletons Uncovered With Buckets on Their Feet And Rings Around Their Necks (www.sciencealert.com)
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....
Excavated dolmen in Sweden one of the oldest in Scandinavia (phys.org)
Last summer, archaeologists from Gothenburg University and Kiel University excavated a dolmen, a stone burial chamber, in Tiarp near Falköping in Sweden. The archaeologists judge that the grave has remained untouched since the Stone Age. First analysis results now confirm that the grave in Tiarp is one of the oldest stone...