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Skip to content BOHUNICE, SLOVAKIA—The Slovak Spectator reports that a settlement dating back some 7,000 years has been mapped with lidar technology at Hrádok, a hill in central Slovakia, by researchers from the Slovak University of Technology. The team identified stone buildings, terraces, fields, and vineyards, in addition to a fortress and stone wall.
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archaeology.org | Jessica Esther Saraceni
Skip to content FLORENCE, ITALY—According to a Live Science report, a 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb decorated with wall paintings has been uncovered in central Italy’s Tarquinia necropolis. No human remains, grave goods, or inscriptions were recovered from the looted tomb, which was also damaged by the collapse of a tomb situated above it.
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archaeology.org | Jessica Esther Saraceni
Skip to content KARABÜK, TURKEY—Hürriyet Daily News reports that excavators working at the site of the ancient city of Hadrianopolis, which is located in Turkey’s Black Sea region, uncovered a bronze object thought to have been used to filter beverages in the fifth century A.D. The artifact measures about three and one-half inches long, and is conical in shape with small perforations, explained Ersin Çelikbaş of Karabük University. “The carrying loop on it indicates that the object was not...
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archaeology.org | Jessica Esther Saraceni
Skip to content HEDENSTED, DENMARK—Researchers have identified fragments of a Roman helmet dated to the fourth century A.D. among more than 100 weapons that were unearthed in Denmark last year at the site of an Iron Age settlement known as Løsning Søndermark, according to a Sci News report.
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archaeology.org | Jessica Esther Saraceni
Skip to content GYEONGJU, SOUTH KOREA—According to a report in Korea JoongAng Daily, Choi Eung-chon of the Korea Heritage Service announced the discovery of Donggung, the residence of the crown prince of the Silla Dynasty, which ruled the central and southern Korean Peninsula between 57 B.C. and A.D. 935.
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archaeology.org | Jessica Esther Saraceni
Skip to content LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a Live Science report, radiocarbon dating of ancient human skeletons recovered from the River Thames indicates that they date to between 4000 B.C. and A.D. 1800. Nichola Arthur of London’s Natural History Museum said that most of the remains dated to the Bronze Age, between 2300 and 800 B.C., and the Iron Age, between 800 B.C. and A.D. 43.
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archaeology.org | Jessica Esther Saraceni
Skip to content ANKARA, TURKEY—Hürriyet Daily News reports that Turkish officials repatriated more than 150 artifacts to Egyptian officials during a ceremony at Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry. The objects were seized during the search of a home and were evaluated by researchers from the Fethiye Museum.
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archaeology.org | Jessica Esther Saraceni
Skip to content ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO—According to a statement released by the University of New Mexico, researchers led by Pere Gelabert and Victoria Oberreiter of the University of Vienna analyzed DNA recovered from soil around the so-called “Red Lady of El Mirón,” the 19,000-year-old remains of a woman discovered in northern Spain’s El Mirón Cave.
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archaeology.org | Jessica Esther Saraceni
Skip to content BEERSHEBA, ISRAEL—SciNews reports that a study of five engraved artifacts found in Manot Cave, Amud Cave, Qafzeh Cave, and the open-air site of Quneitra suggests that Middle Paleolithic hominins in the Levant may have made some of the marks deliberately. It had been previously thought that all of the marks were the result of incidental wear and tear on the objects.
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Skip to content COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—According to a Live Science report, proteins collected from the tooth enamel of an Australopithecus africanus individual have been analyzed with a method known as paleoproteomics by an international team of researchers. “To my knowledge, among the publicly shared hominin enamel proteomes, A.
