Direct dating of human fossils and the ever-changing story of human evolution (www.sciencedirect.com)
Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. What if this was not accidental? (www.theguardian.com)
Men and women might have had their fingers deliberately chopped off during religious rituals in prehistoric times, according to a new interpretation of palaeolithic cave art....
Skull with 'execution-style wounds' suggests woman died due to enslavement or suspected sorcery in colonial Indonesia (www.livescience.com)
This 2,300-year-old Mosaic Made of Shells and Coral Has Just Been Found Buried Under Rome (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Dress code: How a Winnipeg codebreaker cracked one of the 'world's top unsolved messages' | CBC (www.cbc.ca)
Ancient Scythians Did Make Leather Out of Human Skin After All (www.sciencealert.com)
Discovery of 'calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo in US Southwest surpasses 'wildest expectations' (www.livescience.com)
Rise of archery in Andes Mountains dated to 5,000 years ago—earlier than previous research (phys.org)
When did archery arise in the Americas? And what were the effects of this technology on society?...
Temple linked to Hercules and Alexander the Great discovered in ancient megacity in Iraq (www.livescience.com)
Analysis of ancient Scythian leather samples shows two were made from human skin (phys.org)
A multi-institutional team of anthropologists has discovered that two pieces of ancient Scythian leather excavated at sites in Ukraine were made from human skin. In their project, reported on the open-access site PLOS ONE, the group tested an account by the Greek historian Herodotus regarding certain behaviors of ancient...
Oldest known ship burial discovered in Norway predates Vikings (www.livescience.com)
Mesopotamian bricks unveil the strength of Earth's ancient magnetic field (phys.org)
Ancient bricks inscribed with the names of Mesopotamian kings have yielded important insights into a mysterious anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field 3,000 years ago, according to a new study involving University College London researchers....
National Trust archaeologists find medieval ‘gift token’ in Norfolk (www.theguardian.com)
First discovery of carbon-based cave art in France's Dordogne region could pave way for precise radiocarbon dating (phys.org)
The Dordogne region of southern France is home to over 200 caves decorated with colorful Paleolithic art, but little is known about how old it is. Due to its coloration with iron- or manganese-oxide-based material, radiocarbon dating of the art has not been possible, and it has been generally thought to have been created during...
Rome unearths ancient domus between Roman Forum and Palatine Hill (www.wantedinrome.com)
The Met to return looted ancient artworks to Thailand and Cambodia (www.bbc.com)
Three killed while repairing ancient wall at Unesco world heritage site in Tunisia (www.theguardian.com)
The World's Oldest Settlements Were Built by a Culture Nobody Expected (www.sciencealert.com)
'Unique' cave art discovered in Madagascar hints at connections with ancient Egypt and Borneo (www.livescience.com)
Unique, prehistoric rock art drawings have been discovered in the Andriamamelo Cave in western Madagascar....
North America's first people may have arrived by sea ice highway as early as 24,000 years ago (phys.org)
One of the hottest debates in archaeology is how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally argued that people walked through an ice-free corridor that briefly opened between ice sheets an estimated 13,000 years ago....
How Museum Items Go Missing (www.sapiens.org)
Medieval 'curse tablet' summoning Satan discovered at the bottom of a latrine in Germany (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in Germany have discovered a rolled-up piece of lead that they think could be a medieval “curse tablet” that invokes “Beelzebub,” or Satan....
'Complex' study into potential rock art damage raises concerns as researchers call for more time (www.abc.net.au)
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....
People, not the climate, found to have caused the decline of the giant mammals (phys.org)
For years, scientists have debated whether humans or the climate have caused the population of large mammals to decline dramatically over the past several thousand years. A new study from Aarhus University confirms that climate cannot be the explanation....
