Stone Age Europeans mastered spear-throwers 10,000 years earlier than we thought, study suggests (www.livescience.com)
Stone Age people in Belgium were hunting with spear-throwers more than 30,000 years ago — the earliest known evidence of such a weapon in Europe, a new study suggests....
'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)
Skulls in Ukraine reveal early modern humans came from the East (theconversation.com)
Giant 200,000-year-old stone hand ax discovered in desert—"Amazing" (www.newsweek.com)
Stunning Codex Documenting Aztec Culture Now Fully Digitized (hyperallergic.com)
Copper Age woman survived two skull surgeries up to 4,500 years ago (www.livescience.com)
Thousands of years ago, a woman underwent two surgeries to her head — and survived both procedures, her skull reveals....
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear (acoup.blog)
Rare Ovarian Tumor Discovered in Egyptian New Kingdom Burial - Archaeology Magazine (www.archaeology.org)
500-year-old Hebrew note reveals 'lost' earthquake swarm in Italy (www.livescience.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....
Looters continue to pillage Afghanistan’s rich archaeological heritage (www.science.org)
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
A warlike culture? Religion and war in the Aztec world (www.tandfonline.com)
Did These Curious Rock Formations Inspire the Great Sphinx? - Eos (eos.org)
Archaeologists confirm tales of Finland's mid-14th century fortress (yle.fi)
Vietnam uncovers oldest human remains - VnExpress International (e.vnexpress.net)
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....
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)
Rewilding’ later prehistory (www.bajrfed.co.uk)
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....