archaeology

The Guardian shares archaeological treasure – the discovery of a 2,000-year-old wooden statue unearthed in the massive dig along the 150-mile HS2 rail project:

The 67cm-tall figure

Scientific American reports on a project using autonomous robots to reassemble the smallest fragments of the ruins of Pompeii:

Their project—dubbed RePAIR (Reconstructing the Past:

Science presents hard evidence that humans really were in North America at the time of the last Ice Age, along with giant sloths and glyptodonts:

Despite a plethora of archaeological research

LiveScience (via ScienceAlert) is puzzling over two polished stone spheres found in a Neolithic site on the isle of Sanday in the Orkneys. The stones resemble similar finds across Scandinavia… Read the rest “Strange, ancient Scottish balls.”

Smithsonian Magazine reveal the probable history of a mummy found in the Egyptian temple of Taposiris Magna who was preserved with a tongue-shaped amulet made of gold foil in their mouth… Read the rest “Mummified with a golden tongue, in order to speak sweetly in death.”

LiveScience looks to Antarctica, where a new expedition hopes to find Endurance, the ship which carried polar explorer Ernest Shackleton to the frozen south before sinking in 1915. The… Read the rest “Icy expedition hopes to find Shackleton’s Endurance.”

New Scientist looks at a possible new addition to the human family tree, an early human skull found in Harbin, China, and tentatively named Homo longi (from the Chinese long, meaning “dragon”)…… Read the rest “Dragon man? Or Denisovan?”

Archaeology reports on University of Helsinki researchers who held a dance marathon to find out the truth about prehistoric relics:

auditory archaeologist Riitta Rainio and artist Juha

Science News looks at some sharpened bones found at a site in Tennessee. They seem to be 3,600-year-old Native American tattoo tools:

These pigment-stained bones are the world’s oldest

The New York Times examines the Shigir Idol, a wooden statue from the Ural Mountains that defied decay to become the oldest known work of ritual art:

Dug out of a peat bog by gold miners in 1890,

NPR reports that archaeologists working in caves on the shores of the Dead Sea have found, for the first time in 60 years, another fragmentary parchment dating back to the time of the Christ,… Read the rest “A new Dead Sea Scroll… and even more ancient things.”

Archaeology magazine looks at a cow bone engraved with runic letters around 600 CE in the southern Czech Republic – a discovery that indicates that Slavic people first wrote using… Read the rest “Slavs first wrote with runes.”

Discover pulls back the curtain on an archaeological debate over some pits in the ground in Israel – holes that show traces of 13,000-year-old fermentation that was brewed up next… Read the rest “Was it beer, or was it bread? Made for the living or made for the dead?”