Peaches spread across North America through Indigenous political and social networks and thanks to land use practices
Visual experience in a Pompeian domestic space, at the House of Greek Epigrams: analysis using virtual reality-based eye tracking and GIS
Oldest known alphabet unearthed at Tell Umm-el Marra, once an ancient Syrian city: the writing is dated to around 2400 BCE, Early Bronze Age
The skull-shaped body of the Aztec death whistle may represent Mictlantecuhtli, and might have been used in sacrifice rituals
The Neanderthals at Prado Vargas, in the Ojo Guareña Karst Complex, were the first fossil collectors, as they picked Cretaceous marine fossils 46,000 years ago
An extensive, freely accessible database featuring 483 known Middle and Late Bronze Age settlement sites of the Luwian region, in the west of Turkey
Evidence of hallucinogens found in an Egyptian Bes mug, validating written records and centuries-old myths of ancient Egyptian rituals and practices
From Traditional to Technological: Advancements in Fresco Conservation, by applying laser Doppler vibrometry to locate delamination in the frescos
French women had more power in the Middle Ages than after the revolution, according to Erika Graham-Goering
12,000-year old stones from the Nahal-Ein Gev II dig site in northern Israel may be spindle whorls, a very early evidence of wheel-like technology
Stones and structures throughout Germany dating to the Roman period are being documented in a long-term research project, the large-scale online edition “disiecta membra. Stone Architecture and Urbanism in Roman Germany”
Researchers excavate earliest ancient Maya salt works at Jay-yi Nah, which turned out to be much older than the other underwater sites
Commonalties found in pain vocalizations and interjections across cultures; the study has been published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
DNA evidence rewrites histories for people buried in volcanic eruption in ancient Pompeii; the study has been published in Current Biology
15,800-year-old engraved plaquettes from the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, located in modern-day Germany, depict fishing techniques, including the use of nets, not previously known in the Upper Paleolithic
The article The Gendered Construction of the Japanese Language-Learning Boom in Postcolonial Korea is published in the Asian Studies journal
The burial chamber and grave goods of the ancient Egyptian Priestess Idy have been discovered in the Egyptian necropolis of Asyut
The origin of writing in Mesopotamia is tied to designs engraved on ancient cylinder seals; the study has been published in Antiquity
Soii Havzak, a multi-layered archaeological site in the Zeravshan Valley, central Tajikistan, shedding rare light on early human settlement in the region
Bones from Tudor Mary Rose shipwreck suggest handedness might affect collarbone chemistry and help to learn more about life for sailors in the 16th century
