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• Australia’s Ice Age Tools Analyzed

  16-04-2024 01:11 via archaeology.org
  SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA—According to a Live Science report, David Zeanah of California State University, Sacramento, representatives of the Thalanyji people, and their colleagues have analyzed more than 4,400 cutting and grinding tools recovered from open-air sites on Barrow Island, which is located off the coast of northwestern Australia. Between 29,000 and 19,000 years ago, when sea levels were lower, the island would have been a high plateau connected to what is now Australia by a coasta
  
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• Possible Signs of Border Violence Found in Scottish Churchyard

  16-04-2024 01:10 via archaeology.org
  SWINTON, SCOTLAND—Chronicle Live reports that human bone fragments have been discovered in disturbed soil in the area of Swinton Parish Church, which is located in Scotland near the Anglo-Scottish border, by researchers from the Border Reivers Archaeology Unit. The bones are thought to represent two adults and three children who suffered multiple injuries around the time of their deaths. Blade wounds thought to have been made with an ax or sword were found on three of the leg bones. One of
  
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• German Museum Returns Wine Jug to Greece

  16-04-2024 01:07 via archaeology.org
  HANOVER, GERMANY—The National Herald reports that the August Kestner Museum has repatriated a seventh-century B.C. oenochoe, or wine jug, to Greece. Traces of decoration are still visible on the neck of the jug. The museum received the oenochoe as a gift in 1986, along with a letter stating that the artifact had been found at one end of the Corinth Canal in an excavation conducted in 1943, during the Nazi occupation of Greece. The letter also includes a description of the trench in wh
  
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• Clovis Points May Have Had Multiple Uses

  16-04-2024 01:05 via archaeology.org
  KENT, OHIO—A new study suggests that Clovis spear points may have been used for butchering as well as hunting big game, according to a Phys.org report. Clovis points and tools, dated to between 13,500 and 12,800 years ago, were first identified at a site near Clovis, New Mexico. A team of researchers led by Metin I. Eren of Kent State University and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History asked five modern hunters to use large, hand-held stone flakes and replica Clovis points mounted on wo
  
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• Ancient Graves Uncovered in Southern Portugal

  16-04-2024 01:04 via archaeology.org
  FARO, PORTUGAL—Portugal Resident reports that three burials dated to the fifth or sixth century A.D. have been unearthed in southern Portugal, at the site of the ancient Roman city of Ossónoba. The tombs, which held the remains of a man, a young woman, and baby who was no more than six months of age at the time of death, had been sealed with limestone slabs taken from older monumental buildings. It is not clear if the individuals were related to each other, but analysis of DNA sampl
  
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