The tip of an arrow has been found lodged in the spine of a man who had been buried 8,500 years ago in northwestern Turkey. Paleoanthropologist Songül Alpaslan Roodenberg says that the wound would have quickly caused the man’s death.

Evidence of ritualized child sacrifice has been uncovered at Cerro Cerrillos in northern Peru, according to Haagen Klaus of Utah Valley University. His team also found seeds of Nactandra plants near the skeletons of the children, suggesting that they may have been given this drug, which has paralytic and hallucinogenic properties.  

Prehistoric human and animal footprints have been revealed by receding waters in western England, near the coast of the Irish Sea.  

A lead tablet inscribed with curses written in ancient Greek has been unearthed in Lebanon by a team from Kyoto University.

This entry was posted by Jessica E. Saraceni on Thursday, December 9, 2010. Discussion of this blog entry is now closed.

Comments posted here do not represent the views or policies of the Archaeological Institute of America.