Headless skeletons in China represent the largest known headhunting massacre from Neolithic Asia (www.livescience.com)
Ancient headless skeletons recovered from mass graves in China are the remains of victims who were massacred around 4,100 years ago in headhunting events, including the largest on record from Neolithic Asia, a new study finds....
New evidence strongly suggests Indonesia's Gunung Padang is oldest known pyramid [See comments.] (phys.org)
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1912
Looters continue to pillage Afghanistan’s rich archaeological heritage (www.science.org)
Did These Curious Rock Formations Inspire the Great Sphinx? - Eos (eos.org)
A warlike culture? Religion and war in the Aztec world (www.tandfonline.com)
Vietnam uncovers oldest human remains - VnExpress International (e.vnexpress.net)
Archaeologists confirm tales of Finland's mid-14th century fortress (yle.fi)
Rare tumor with teeth discovered in Egyptian burial from 3,000 years ago (www.livescience.com)
While excavating an ancient Egyptian cemetery, archaeologists made a rare discovery: an ovarian tumor nestled in the pelvis of a woman who died more than three millennia ago. The tumor, a bony mass with two teeth, is the oldest known example of a teratoma, a rare type of tumor that typically occurs in ovaries or testicles....
Rewilding’ later prehistory (www.bajrfed.co.uk)
Weathered face of 'old man' Neanderthal comes to life in amazing new facial reconstruction (www.livescience.com)
In 1908, a group of Catholic priests discovered what looked like the skeletal remains of a man buried inside a cave in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, a commune in south-central France. The nearly complete skeleton lacked several teeth, earning him the nickname the “old man.”...
Italian archaeologists open 2,600-year-old tomb for first time, find wealthy family's treasures (www.cbsnews.com)
Long-distance weaponry identified at the 31,000-year-old archaeological site of Maisières-Canal (phys.org)
The hunter-gatherers who settled on the banks of the Haine, a river in southern Belgium, 31,000 years ago were already using spearthrowers to hunt their game. This is the finding of a new study conducted at TraceoLab at the University of Liège....
Tens of Thousands of Ancient Bronze Coins Dating from the 4th Century Discovered Off Sardinia (arkeonews.net)
Water Corridors Helped Homo sapiens Disperse out of Africa - Eos (eos.org)
Ancient roman road found in Stirling garden. (www.bbc.com)
Teeth unearthed at Invercargill building site offer snapshot of Victorian-era NZ - NZ Herald (www.nzherald.co.nz)
Hundreds of teeth unearthed at an Invercargill building site have offered researchers a glimpse of life in Victorian-era New Zealand....
Moroccan archaeologists unearth new ruins at Chellah, a tourism-friendly ancient port near Rabat (phys.org)
Large-scale violence in Late Neolithic Western Europe based on expanded skeletal evidence from San Juan ante Portam Latinam - Scientific Reports (www.nature.com)
'Spectacular' hall, likely used by Nordic Bronze Age royalty, unearthed in Germany (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the remains of a massive hall that was likely used by royalty roughly 3,000 years ago....
Skeleton with 4 prosthetic metal fingers unearthed from centuries-old grave in Germany (www.livescience.com)
Workers Unearth 19th-Century Shipwreck Beneath a Road in Florida (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Circular temple dedicated to Maya serpent deity discovered in Mexico (www.livescience.com)
Larger-scale warfare may have occurred in Europe 1,000 years earlier than previously thought (phys.org)
A re-analysis of more than 300 sets of 5,000-year-old skeletal remains excavated from a site in Spain suggests that many of the individuals may have been casualties of the earliest period of warfare in Europe, occurring over 1,000 years before the previous earliest known larger-scale conflict in the region....