'Magical' Roman wind chime with phallus, believed to ward off evil eye, unearthed in Serbia (www.livescience.com)
Beaver exploitation, 400,000 years ago, testifies to prey choice diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominins (www.nature.com)
Data regarding the subsistence base of early hominins are heavily biased in favor of the animal component of their diets, in particular the remains of large mammals, which are generally much better preserved at archaeological sites than the bones of smaller animals, let alone the remains of plant food. Exploitation of smaller...
Maya warrior statue with serpent helmet discovered at Chichén Itzá (www.livescience.com)
Giant 200,000-year-old stone hand ax discovered in desert—"Amazing" (www.newsweek.com)
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....
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....
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....
Bringing a shark to a knife fight: 7,000-year-old shark-tooth knives discovered in Indonesia (phys.org)
Cold war satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts (www.theguardian.com)
Rare cross-shaped reliquary unearthed from medieval knight's home in Poland (www.livescience.com)
Did Ancient Egyptians Know Meteorites Came From Space? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
See gorgeous ancient Egyptian 'mummy portraits' from nearly 2 millennia ago (www.livescience.com)
Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir (knowyourmeme.com)
Amazon review from c. 1750 BC
Archaeologists discover Roman villa on site of "unauthorized eco-monster" (www.newsweek.com)
Archaeologists reveal secrets of merchant ship that sank in 15th century (www.newsweek.com)
Are 3,000-year-old carvings from Italy a star map? Researchers can't agree. (www.livescience.com)
A roughly 3,000-year-old stone disk covered with enigmatic markings is actually an ancient celestial map marking the brightest stars in the night sky, researchers claim....
Ancient fortifications revealed underneath Bronze Age village on Italian island (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists find 9-mile-long ancient fortification at desert oasis (www.newsweek.com)
U.K. archaeologists uncover ancient grave holding teen girl, child and treasures: "Striking discovery" (www.cbsnews.com)
100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark (www.nature.com)
Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad regional scales. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are hampered by a lack of ancient genomic data sampled at high spatiotemporal resolution. Here, to address this, we analysed shotgun-sequenced genomes from...
Lasers reveal ancient settlements hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest (www.livescience.com)
Lasers have revealed a complex network of pre-Hispanic structures and roadways hidden beneath the canopy of the Amazon. At 2,500 years old, it’s the earliest (and largest) example of an agricultural civilization ever recorded in South America’s dense rainforest....
A princess's psalter recovered? Pieces of a 1,000-year-old manuscript found (phys.org)
A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: A number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century. The original manuscript may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the Norman Conquest....
2 golden tongues symbolizing 'flesh of the gods' unearthed in ancient Egyptian mummies (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered two mummies outfitted with golden tongues at the ancient town of Oxyrhynchus, bringing the total number of golden tongues found at the location to 16, archaeologists say....