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Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 12-20-13
If you missed anything from the ASOR Facebook or Twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section!
- A 1.34-million-year-old Plio-Pleistocene hominid partial skeleton was found at the Olduvai Gorge site in Tanzania.
- Archaeologists have discovered a 2,400-year-old baby bottle that doubled as a toy.
- Students at the Yeshiva University are following clues from the tombstone of a woman that died more than 1,600 years ago.
- Greece to open archaeological diving parks, allowing visitors to explore ancient shipwrecks near Pylos.
- A 1.4 million-year-old hand bone suggests that the modern human-like hand existed more than half a million years earlier than previously thought.
- An engineer from Newport, RI helping restore the Egyptian pyramids believes the theories about how the pyramids were built are all “wrong.”
- New research gives a glimpse at the life of neolithic leader.
- Some researchers believe residents of a Polynesian island may have used binary math before it was first described in 1703.
- In modern-day Sudan, seven 900-year-old, naturally-mummified bodies have been found within crypt walls covered with inscriptions.
- Rare Tlingit war helmet uncovered in a museum’s collection, mislabeled as just a “hat.”
- The toe bone of a 130,000-year-old Neanderthal has provided scientists with the entire genome.
- New evidence shows that Neanderthals might have buried their dead, suggesting they possessed complex forms of thought.
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