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Neanderthal Arm Morphology Caused by Scraping, Not Spear Thrusting

July, 29 2012

Popular Archaeology

Neanderthal Arm Morphology Caused by Scraping, Not Spear Thrusting It was scraping hide, not thrusting spears, that caused dominant strength on their right sides.

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Mystery of Lost Roman City Solved: Ancients Greened the Desert?

July, 29 2012

National Geographic

A well uncovered near Palmyra. Photograph courtesy Jørgen Christian Meye Today it's a mirage like expanse of monumental ruins. But under the Roman Empire, Palmyra was a trading metropolis, according to historical and archaeological evidence.

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An olive stone from 150BC links pre Roman Britain to todays pizzeria

July, 29 2012

Guardian UK

Professor Mike Fulford at the dig in Silchester. The latest find is an olive stone that dates back to Iron Age Britain. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian Archaeologists have unearthed a charred stone that suggests the Mediterranean diet came to these islands during the Iron Age

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Small Dig, Big Discovery: Chumash Jaw Bone Found Under Vets Center

July, 29 2012

Santa Barbara Independent

Archaeologist Lynn Gamble holds a whale vertebra that may have been used by the Chumash as a stool. The past and future recently collided in the dirt five feet beneath Santa Barbara's Veterans Memorial Building on Cabrillo Boulevard, where the jaw bone and finger of a Chumash Indian were discovered as well as a host of other Chumash artifacts estimated to be hundreds and hundreds of years old.

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Roman cemetery discovered in Great Ellingham

July, 29 2012

Current Archaeology

Some burials had flint nodules placed around the skull. In November 2011, when Chris Birks Archaeology excavated a trial trench in Great Ellingham, Norfolk, on the site of a future housing development, little did they know that they were about to uncover one of the biggest Romano British burial sites in the region.

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Ancient Mayan night sun temple found in Guatemala

July, 29 2012

Straits Times

Undated handout picture released by El Zotz Archaeological Project showing archaeologist Edwin Roman posing in front of a bas-relief depicting the Night Sun found under a pyramid at the Zotz archaeological site, in the Peten jungle, 550 km north of Guatemala City. -- PHOTO: AFP Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,600 year old Mayan temple dedicated to the 'night sun' atop a pyramid tomb in the northern Guatemalan forest near the border with Mexico.

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Archeologist finds 600 year old bras

July, 29 2012

Victoria Times Colonist

Photo from the Archeological Institute of the University of Innsbruck shows a medieval bra found at Lemberg Castle in Tyrol. Discovery in Austrian castle results in a second look at history of clothing

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Pharaohs playground revealed by missing fractals

July, 29 2012

New Scientist

THE Dahshur royal necropolis in Egypt was once a dazzling sight.

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Neanderthals Self Medicated?

July, 29 2012

National Geographic

Neanderthals may have been gatherers and hunters Tartar remains on teeth reveal traces of herbs, veggies, study says..

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Stone Age Tools Help to Streamline Modern Manufacturing

July, 29 2012

Science Daily

Innovative research by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Bradford used laser microscopes to explore how stone tools were used in prehistory, and the process has helped streamline surface measurement techniques for modern manufacturers.