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• Archaeological Field Technician (Temporary) - Columbia, South Carolina

  21-05-2020 22:37
  Posted by Michael Baker.Tagged under: [employment-listings](click on the link to view details about this job listing and to see other job opportunities for archaeology professionals)
  
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• Neolithic House Mouse Found in Europe

  21-05-2020 04:41 via archaeology.org
  YORK, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of York, archaeologist David Orton and his colleagues sieved soil samples collected from the floors of burned houses in a late Neolithic village in Serbia and recovered tiny mouse bones. Orton explained that it had been previously thought that Neolithic sites outside of the Mediterranean were not heavily populated enough to support the rodents. The bones, from Mus musculus domesticus, or the eastern subspecies of house mouse
  
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• Scientists Track 15,000 Years’ Worth of Ear Infections

  21-05-2020 04:12 via archaeology.org
  TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—Haaretz reports that a study of human remains buried in the Levant between 15,000 and 100 years ago suggests that the onset of agriculture—and the corresponding decrease of variety and increase of grains in the diet—may not have harmed people’s health as previously thought. Hila May of Tel Aviv University and her colleagues examined the internal wall of the middle ears of the remains to look for evidence of chronic ear infections, which are usually brough
  
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• Field Techs needed in the Northeast June 2020

  21-05-2020 03:37
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• 14,000-Year-Old Ancestor of Native Americans Identified in Russia

  21-05-2020 03:37 via archaeology.org
  JENA, GERMANY—He Yu of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and her colleagues analyzed DNA extracted from a 14,000-year-old tooth fragment unearthed by archaeologists in south-central Russia in the 1970s, and found that its mixture of ancient North Eurasian and Northeast Asian ancestry matches that of today’s Native Americans, according to a Science Magazine report. Ust-Kyakhta, the Siberian site where the tooth was found, is situated between Lake Baikal and the
  
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