A study of mitochondrial DNA from North, Central, and South American Indians suggests that just six women who crossed into North America from Beringia some 20,000 years ago have a surviving legacy. 

In Ireland, a woman protesting the construction of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara is reportedly locked to a jack supporting a tunnel at the Rath Lugh promontory fort.  

A $285,000 grant has been awarded to The Hermitage, the Tennessee home of Andrew Jackson and his 150 slaves. Archaeologists will use the money to catalog the 800,000 artifacts left by the enslaved work force, and create an online database.  

The human bones uncovered in Tampa while digging a septic tank could be more than 1,000 years old.  

Mansur Sadjadi, director of excavations at Iran’s Burnt City, says that a 5,200-year-old bowl marks the beginning of animation. A series of images around the bowl depict a goat leaping to eat leaves from a tree branch when the bowl is spun. There’s a video clip of the action at the end of the article.  

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority working with the Western Wall Heritage Foundation have been digging near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for the past two years. Today they have announced that they have found a layer of artifacts from the end of the First Temple period sealed beneath a second-century A.D. Roman road.

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