The early roots of carnival? Research into the Cerritos reveals evidence of seasonal celebrations in pre-colonial Brazil
Early Hominin toolmaking at the Melka Wakena site, in Ethiopia, sheds light on Engineering ingenuity; a study published in PLoS ONE
North American Early Paleoindians almost 13,000 years ago used the bones of canids, felids, and hares to create needles in modern-day Wyoming
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
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
The ‘urban revolution’ was slow in Bronze Age Arabia: the site of al-Natah, occupied 2400-1500BCE, was an early transitional stage between pastoralism and complex urban settlements
Coastal and underwater cave sites in southern Sicily contain important new clues about the path and fate of early human migrants to the island
To hunt in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes with Clovis points, not throwing spears, roughly 13,000 years ago
International Space Station crew carries out first-ever archeological survey in space: the International Space Station Archaeological Project is launched
The Pyramid of Djoser, the oldest of Egypt’s pyramids, may have been built with the help of a unique hydraulic lift system
